Sunday Stories

On a warm sunny Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, is there a connection between the recent surge in coronavirus cases and air conditioning?

From Townhall, a Customs and Border Protection official points out the violence that has been going on in Portland, Oregon.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the latest in campus insanity.

From the Washington Examiner, civil rights leader and Representative John Lewis (D-GA) is carried across the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, Alabama for the last time.

From American Thinker, beam me up, any ideas that there might be intelligent life on earth have been disproved.

From LifeZette, the fire department of Hingham, Massachusetts removes their Thin Blue Line flags which honor fallen police officers.

From NewsBusters, ABC's Good Morning America it has been "weeks" since protests turned violent.

From Canada Free Press, comparing the goals of communism from 1963 and the current "woke" crusade.

From Global News, drag racing will return to the Saskatchewan International Raceway, but with a scaled-back schedule.

From TeleSUR, the trafficking of Venezuelan migrants back to their home country increases amid the coronavirus pandemic.

From the Express, the E.U. is "savaged" for its latest "crazy" Brexit demands.

From the Irish Examiner, 10 places to get off the beaten path in Ireland.

From The Brussels Times, invisible fences keep Angus cattle in their grazing areas in the Belgian province of Antwerp.

From the NL Times, customs officers in Rotterdam, Netherlands find a total of €18 million worth of she-don't-lie in shipments from Brazil and Germany.

From Deutsche Welle, according to an opinion column, Germany has no Karen, but has the Alman.

From EuroNews, a total of seven people are killed in airplane crashes in Germany and Switzerland.

From the CPH Post, a look at the Danish islands of Odense and Funen.

From Polskie Radio, Lublin, Poland observes the 40th anniversary of strikes by workers, which started at a communication equipment factory.

From Radio Prague, according to Interior Minister Jan Hamáček, the Czech Republic's smart quarantine system isn't working.

From The Slovak Spectator, a replica of an ancient sacrificial hole is uncovered in Nižná Myšľa, Slovakia.

From Hungary Today, the Hungarian government will erect a monument to the victims of the 2019 ship collision in the Danube.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Index and a related story at !!444!!!.)

From Sputnik International, President Putin leads Navy Day celebrations in St. Petersburg, Russia.

From The Sofia Globe, a large water park in Sofia, Bulgaria opens tomorrow.

From Ekathimerini, the Greek navy plans to conduct a live-fire exercise near the island of Kastellorizo.

From Total Croatia News, discover the road less traveled in Donji Miholjac, Croatia.

From Total Slovenia News, a scaled down ceremony at a Russia chapel below the Vršič Pass in Slovenia calls for international solidarity.

From the Malta Independent, according to Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela, instability within the Nationalist Party must not be allowed to affect the country.

From Free West Media, a boatload of migrants reaches the Italian island of Lampedusa every hour.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland has more mafiosi than previously thought.

From France24, an asylum seeker from Rwanda, who volunteered at the cathedral in Nantes, France admits causing its recent fire.

From The Portugal News, employees of the Portuguese company Grupo TAP will go back to work with reduced hours.

From Morocco World News, Morocco bans travel to and from the cities of Tangier, Fez, Casablanca and Marrakech, among others.

From Hürriyet Daily News, a square-shaped area in the Hagia Sophia, where emperors were once crowned, has been left without carpet.  (Whether the emperors crowned at this location were Byzantine, Ottoman, or both is not stated.)

From Rûdaw, the Iraqi national and Kurdistan regional governments discuss the conditions for the return of internally displaced persons.

From In-Cyprus, Cypriot police continue checking business for adherence to coronavirus measures.

From Arutz Sheva, an Israeli team travels to India to test Israeli coronavirus technologies.

From YNetNews, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu reshuffles his "coronavirus cabinet".

From the Egypt Independent, Coptic churches in Cairo and Alexandria will be reopened for prayers on August 3rd.

From the Saudi Gazette, the Grand Mosque in Mecca prepares for the Hajj using intensified disinfection and sterilization.

From The New Arab, the first group of Hajj pilgrims arrive in Mecca.

From Radio Farda, according to exiled Iranian Prince Reza Pahlavi, the Islamic regime has brought poverty to Iran.

From The Express Tribune, liquefied petroleum gas distributors in Pakistan demand a level playing field.

From Khaama Press, a U.S. citizen born in Afghanistan is arrested in connection with a multi-million dollar fraud case.

From the Hindustan Times, more tigers are seen in the flood-hit Indian state of Assam.

From the Colombo Page, 39 people are arrested for holding an illegal motorcycle race in Piliyandala, Sri Lanka.

From Maldives Insider, the Maldive Islands is again left off of the U.K.'s safe travel list.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Islamists attempt to take over the issue of George Floyd.

From Gatestone Institute, the persecution of Christians during this past June.

From The Jakarta Post, the latest coronavirus figures from Indonesia.

From The Straits Times, thieves plunder community gardens in Singapore.

From Free Malaysia Today, 24 Rohingya migrants are feared to have drowned off the Malaysian coast.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnam imposes tariffs on biaxially oriented polypropylene film from China, Thailand and Malaysia.

From The Mainichi, a stuffed megamouth shark is on display at the aquarium in Numazu, Japan.

From The Stream, the writer J.R.R. Tolkien gives men the secret to having a happy marriage.

From The Daily Wire, a New York City fire department defends excluding an image of the iconic 9/11 fireman because he is white.

From the New York Post, according to former New York Governor George Pataki (R), New York City is seeing a regression toward the dark days of crime.

From the Indy Star, local police in Indiana say that they will not enforce Governor Eric Holcomb's (R) statewide mask order.  (via Breitbart)

From Fox News, the coronavirus could bring about a busy hunting season this coming fall.

From CheckYourFact, no, Pakistani Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has not been photographed with the son of Israel's defense minister.

And from The West News, an English man is fined for pretending to be a ghost in a cemetery in the city of Portsmouth.  (The article cites but does not link to The Guardian.)