Saturday Stories - Part 2

As a cool Saturday hangs around, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, according to AfD co-chair Jörg Meuthen, freedom must be fought for likes it's 1989.

From Deutsche Welle, Extinction Rebellion activists start setting up a camp outside German Chancellor Merkel's office.

From the CPH Post, the Comedy Zoo will put on an English-only open mic.

From Polskie Radio, a U.S. forward command unit, to be located in Poznań, Poland, is inaugurated.

From Radio Prague, for the first time in 17 years, Moody's raises the Czech Republic's rating.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovak poet Anton Pižurný recalls the end of communism in Czechoslovakia and the country's subsequent split.  (According to the article, his parents met in Banská Štiavnica, where I would later stay during my 2000 visit to Slovakia.)

From Daily News Hungary, Hungary is included in a video about countries which no longer exist.

From Russia Today, the first all-female spacewalk is back on.

From Sputnik International, a Russian arctic expedition gets a dose of the bear necessities.

From The Moscow Times, according to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Russia will find ways to help Cuba get oil.  (See also the story from TeleSUR linked in Part 1.)

From Romania-Insider, Spanish authorities dismantle a criminal organization that exploited 600 Romanians and Moldovans.

From Novinite, Bulgarian mountaineer Atanas Skatov reaches his tenth 8,000-meter summit.

From Radio Bulgaria, young travelers on the Road Trip project have a stopover in Bulgaria.

From Ekathimerini, the U.S. agency ICE donates two-way radio technology to Greek police.

From the Greek Reporter, Greek police clash with people protesting against the visit by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

From Total Croatia News, the Croatian city of Rijeka and the Serbian region of Vojvodina sign an economic agreement, and Croatians still need visas to visit the U.S.  (Yours truly visited Croatia without a visa in 2007.  As with Poland, it might be time for some reciprocation.)

From the Malta Independent, a photo exhibit on the "faces of human trafficking" will be held at a place called Castille.  (From what I can find, the Auberge de Castille is the name of a building in Valletta, Malta which houses the Maltese prime minister's office.)

From SwissInfo, Switzerland as seen from above.

From The Portugal News, Portugal will spend €6.4 million on new rails for its railways.

From EuroNews, who are the main parties in Portugal's parliamentary elections?

From France24, according to a prosecutor in Paris, the police station attacker "likely" had links to Salafists.

From RFI, Paris gets ready for the Nuit Blanche parade.

From VRT NWS, a mall in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium hires coaches to help their sales assistants to smile more easily.

From the Express, a freight business expert reveals one E.U. law that "the industry can't wait to get rid of".

From the Evening Standard, police in London arrest 10 Extinction Rebellion activists, ahead of their  planned demonstrations.

From the (U.K.) Independent, only one in five Britons believe that Prime Minister Johnson can deliver a Brexit deal before the October 31 deadline.

From the (Irish) Independent, police in Newry, Northern Ireland investigate possible violations of parade rules by dissident republicans.

From The Conservative Woman, "the case for marriage that every politician should read".

And from Snouts in the Trough, some stories of diversity and cultural enrichment.