Tuesday Links - Part 2

As I continue to hang around my undisclosed location in North Carolina, here are some more things going on:

From Free West Media, a woman wearing a niqab and carrying a knife is arrested in Paris.

From France24, France marks the fifth anniversary of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo.

From RFI, the French government talks with unions over its proposed pension reforms.

From The Portugal News, the Azores Left Bloc party calls for supplies to be sent to the island of Flores, recently struck by Hurricane Lorenzo.

From El País, Pedro Sánchez is again the prime minister of Spain.

From SwissInfo, recycling plastic bottles becomes easier in Switzerland.

From ANSA, the Italian "sardines" movement plans to hold a national congress.

From the Malta Independent, rumors of the "once and for all" closing of the Marsa, Malta power station turn out to have been greatly exaggerated.

From Malta Today, 24 migrants are arrested after a riot at the Safi detention center in Malta.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenian soldiers will remain at the base in Erbil, Iraq.

From Total Croatia News, the group "Green Guerrilla", based in Split, Croatia, illegally plants trees in Marjam Forest Park.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the government of Kosovo tells its citizens to avoid traveling to Serbia.

From Ekathimerini, U.S. President Trump welcomes Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis and hails the "extraordinary" relations between the two countries.

From the Greek Reporter, vandals destroy 3,000-year-old rock carvings in northern Greece.

From Novinite, 24,500 pigs will be humanely killed near the Bulgarian village of Shumen because swine fever was detected in the area.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria invites 24 firms to bid on supplying its military with 22 drones.

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgarians celebrate the feast of Saint John the Baptist.

From Romania-Insider, the Floreasca Emergency Hospital in Bucharest dismisses its head of surgery after a woman was burned to death on the operating table.  (If you read Romanian, read a related story at Digi24.)

From Russia Today, a driver near Sochi, Russia races a bear.

From Sputnik International, a Prussian castle built in 1325 goes up for sale in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.

From The Moscow Times, Russian President Putin travels to Syria and meets with President Assad.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungary police go to Serbia and North Macedonia to assist in border protection.

From Hungary Today, Hungary appoints its first female police superintendant.

From About Hungary, the number of illegal migrants entering Hungary more than doubled last year.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia relocates its soldiers from Iraq.

From Radio Prague, a former imam in Prague admits helping his brother and sister-in-law to travel to Syria, but rejects the legitimacy of Czech courts.

From Polskie Radio, Polish President Andrzej Duda accuses Russian President Vladimir Putin of "post-Stalinist revisionism".

From EuroNews, scientists in Lublin, Poland create a new artificial bone material.

From the CPH Post, thousands of Danes have been ordering medicine from the U.K.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany withdraws some of its soldiers from Iraq.

From the NL Times, for the first time ever, there are over 2,000,000 businesses in the Netherlands.

From Dutch News, more Dutch parliamentcritters back a proposed ban on fireworks.

From VRT NWS, asylum seekers in Belgium will be housed at an airbase in the seaside town of Koksijde.

From Euractiv, the E.U. credibility on climate change rests on its dealing with methane emissions.  (As a greenhouse gas, methane is far more powerful than carbon dioxide.)

From the Express, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson tells E.U. leader Ursula von der Leyen that there will be no more delays on Brexit.

From the Evening Standard, the British teenager convicted of falsely accusing Israeli teenagers of rape is heading home to the U.K.

From the (U.K.) Independent, a look at the six candidates vying to replace Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party.

From the (Irish) Independent, the legacy of the RIC and the Black and Tans.

From the Irish Examiner, according to Students For Life Ireland, the country's health minister should focus on health concerns instead of "exclusion zones".

And from The Conservative Woman, three cheers for the volunteers fighting the bush fires in Australia.