Saturday Stuff - Part 2

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

From Free West Media, supporters and opponents of Zwarte Piet have a confrontation in The Hague.

From the NL Times, five people are arrested in The Hague for alleged assault and attempted arson against anti-Zwarte Piet activists.

From Deutsche Welle, when the wall came down in Berlin.

From the CPH Post, an Irishman wins the Copenhagen Conkers Championship.  (Conkers is a game played with chestnuts, each tied to a string.)

From Polskie Radio, Polish President Andrzej Duda visits Berlin to observe the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

From Radio Prague, Czech President Miloš Zeman visits Berlin to observe the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

From The Slovak Spectator, be sure to taste the potato-shaped krumpels if you're visiting Kremnica, Slovakia.

From the Hungary Journal, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, Turkey is "instrumental" in stopping a "wave of millions of migrants" from entering Europe.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarians plan to plant 100 million trees.

From About Hungary, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) is wrong to call Hungary a "one-party state".

From Russia Today, watch a Russian Su-57 fighter jet be assembled.

From Sputnik International, Russian citizen Denis Lisov, who escaped from Sweden with his three children, arrives at his home in Khabarovsk.

From Romania-Insider, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Romania has recorded the highest improvement in economic freedom among the former communist countries.

From Radio Bulgaria, eco-activists lock themselves in a cage in front of the Bulgarian parliament building in Sofia, to show the cruelty of fur farming.

From Ekathimerini, Greek police arrest three terror suspects.

From the Greek Reporter, Greek police bust a migrant smuggling group.  (I used to point out that migrants are not merely migrating, but are being "trafficked".  I've come to believe that "trafficked" might be an incorrect term, because human trafficking often victimizes people who are taken to places against their will.  With regard to people who want to be illegally transported, the term "smuggled" might be more appropriate.  Thus, my revised statement is "migrants aren't merely migrating, they're being smuggled".)

From Total Croatia News, according to the Croatian interior ministry, a report by Human Rights Watch alleging mistreatment of migrants by Croatian police has no real evidence.

From the Malta Independent, a global debate gets underway on whether married men could be ordained as Catholic priests.

From Malta Today, police in Mosta, Malta find a collection of dead protected birds.

From SwissInfo, what happened to Switzerland when the Berlin Wall came down.

From The Portugal News, students and other collect 55 kilograms of garbage from the beach in Faro, Portugal.

From France24, on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, stories from both East and West.

From RFI, a French woman accuses Roman Polanski of raping her in a Swiss ski resort in 1975.

From VRT NWS, animal rights activists occupy a foie gras farm in Bekegem, West Flanders, Belgium.

From EuroNews, according to Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu, Turkey will start sending ISIS fighters back to Europe starting next Monday.

From the Express, Brexit Party MEP Ann Widdecombe urges Prime Minister Boris Johnson to form a "non-aggressive pact" with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage.

From the Evening Standard, a Labour Party parliamentary candidate denies changing the opening line of a famous Beatles song.

From the Independent, a Brexit Party parliamentary candidate catches flak for his membership in a band named Stuka Squadron.

From the Irish Examiner, a British soldier who survived an IRA attack on a bus returns to the scene and thanks the first responders who helped him.

And from The Conservative Woman, the Berlin Wall is long gone, but Europe is still divided.