Today is Flag Day and also the 75th birthday of former President Trump. As you observe either or both, here are some things going on:
From National Review, yes, the virology lab in Wuhan, China was a batcave.
From FrontpageMag, why Flag Day "disturbs" former President Obama and his fellow Democrats.
From Townhall, U.S. officials are alerted to an "imminent radiological threat" at a nuclear plant in southern China.
From The Washington Free Beacon, lobbyists for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline dodge foreign agent laws.
From the Washington Examiner, according to a Polish diplomat, President Biden's team is committing a "cascade of errors" before his meeting with Russian President Putin.
From The Federalist, a history of the American flag for us to read.
From American Thinker, American Marxists can put their fictitious claims of systemic racism and white privilege and put them out of the reach of sunlight.
From CNS News, according to congresscritter Jim Jordan (R-OH) illegal aliens are being trafficked and then forced to send money to the drug cartels.
From NewsBusters, left-wing "crazies" create pronoun jewelry.
From Canada Free Press, according to Mark Twain, first God created idiots, which was just practice, and "then He created school boards".
From CTV News, a man who allegedly drove his vehicle into a Muslim family in London, Ontario, Canada faces terror charges.
From TeleSUR, Peru still has not officially announced the winner of its presidential election, held on June 6th.
From The Conservative Woman, the British should "stand firm and stay British".
From Snouts in the Trough, will corrupt third-worlders and their doctors kill all of us?
From the Express, due to an acceleration in coronavirus cases, Prime Minister Boris Johnson decides against ending the U.K.'s coronavirus lockdown, but will scrap some rules.
From the Lancashire Post, two schoolchildren in Preston, England are investigated by police for allegedly desecrating a Koran.
From the (Irish) Independent, the PantiBar in Dublin, Ireland is hit with homophobic graffiti.
From VRT NWS, Brussels Airlines resumes its flights to the U.S.
From the NL Times, the Netherlands is expected to relax many of its coronavirus lockdown rules on June 26th.
From Deutsche Welle, according to German chancellor candidate Armin Laschet, with Russia, "you have to talk more, not less".
From the CPH Post, people in Denmark can now take off their face masks.
From Polskie Radio, during the NATO summit, Presidents Duda (Poland) and Biden (U.S.) will hold talks.
From Radio Prague, masks are no longer required in classrooms in the Czech Republic.
From The Slovak Spectator, foreigners living in Slovakia but who have no public health insurance may now register for coronavirus vaccination.
From About Hungary, 5,342,379 people in Hungary have been vaccinated against the coronavirus.
From EuroNews, Finland's governing coalition loses ground to an opposition party in local elections.
From Russia Today, President Putin claims that Russia does indeed tolerate dissent.
From Romania-Insider, according to a survey, Romanians think that the coronavirus to going to hang around for another two or three years. (If you read Romanian, read the story at News(dot)Ro.)
From Novinite, Bulgaria's Buzludzha Monument gets a new life.
From the Greek Reporter, Greece pauses the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for people under 60.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis meets with his counterparts Boris Johnson (U.K.) and Edi Rama (Albania).
From Balkan Insight, NATO supports the territorial integrity of Bosnia and Hercegovina.
From Total Croatia News, Split, Croatia expects a good number of tourists this summer. (I was there in 2007. If you read Croatian, read the story at Slobodna Dalmacija.)
From Total Slovenia News, the Women on Women festival starts in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
From the Malta Independent, several illegal gatherings occur in Malta over the weekend.
From ANSA, according to Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, NATO is the strongest alliance in history.
From SwissInfo, thousands of women in Switzerland protest in the streets for equal rights.
From Free West Media, a majority of Swiss voters support a law under which "potential terrorists" are monitored from age 12.
From France24, in a video report, French President Macron downplays NATO's wording on China.
From ReMix, despite Macron's stated intent to deport all illegal aliens in France, their deportation rate is only 15 percent.
From El País, people in Spain demonstrate to express their outrage over gender violence cases.
From The Portugal News, people in Portugal are no longer required to work from home as of today.
From Euractiv, what the G7 leaders agreed (and didn't agree) about dealing with climate change.
From Morocco World News, responding to orders from King Mohammed VI, Royal Air Maroc cuts prices for Moroccans abroad, which results in 120,000 bookings in less than 24 hours.
From The North Africa Post, Hungary publishes a joint declaration with Morocco supporting an autonomy plan for the Sahara.
From Hürriyet Daily News, at the NATO summit, Turkish President Erdoğan meets U.S. President Biden and other leaders.
From the Daily Sabah, the Enez Fatih Mosque in Enez, Turkey, originally built by the Byzantine Empire as a church, will reopen for the first time since 1965.
From Rûdaw, according to the CEO of Crescent Petroleum, the Iraqi region of Kurdistan could be a "major gas hub". (If so, will Hunter Biden be asked to sit on its board due to his experience with Burisma?)
From Armenpress, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announces a "uncompromising fight" against anyone who gave election bribes.
From In-Cyprus, Cyprus's health minister issues a travel ban on India, with certain exceptions.
From The Syrian Observer, tax increases in and around Damascus, Syria result in rent increases.
From The961, Lebanon's first female presidential candidate slams the country's rulers and proposes her own solutions.
From Arutz Sheva, new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has his first day in office.
From the Egypt Independent, according to Tourism Minister Khaled al-Anany, over 500,000 tourists from 20 countries visited Egypt in April.
From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopian parliamentcritters start discussing their next budget.
From the Saudi Gazette, the Arab Coalition intercepts an armed drone launched by Houthi rebels in Yemen targeted at the city of Khamis Mushait.
From The New Arab, early results show the parties National Liberation Front and Movement of Society for Peace leading in Algeria's parliamentary elections.
From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, disqualified Iranian presidential candidates respond to their bans on the app Clubhouse.
From Iran International, the Iranian Red Crescent asks the Red Cross for money for drought victims.
From Dawn, four Frontier Corps soldiers are killed in an IED explosion near Quetta, Pakistan.
From Khaama Press, NATO will provide funding for the control of Hamid Karzai International Airport near Kabul, Afghanistan after its troops are pulled out.
From India Today, the trust in charge of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, India denies allegations of corruption.
From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh will resume coronavirus vaccination on June 19th.
From the Colombo Page, more than 30 sea turtles and five dolphins have washed ashore in Sri Lanka after the fire on the ship MV X-Press Pearl.
From Gatestone Institute, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas battle over reconstructions funds.
From The Jakarta Post, police investigate the death of a politician in the Indonesian province of North Sulawesi who opposed a gold mine.
From Free Malaysia Today, the human rights commission Suhakam says to stop painting migrants and refugees as security threats.
From The Mainichi, the cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga faces a no-confidence vote tomorrow.
From The Stream, the third George Bush advises against sending a dogcatcher to a gunfight.
From The American Conservative, false flags, false stories, and the darkside of Bitcoin.
From The Daily Signal, celebrating the 246th birthday of the American Army.
From The Western Journal, former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu "goes out with a bang".
From the New York Post, a defector from North Korea slams wokeness in U.S. schools.
From the Daily Caller, while Rome burned, Vice President Harris giggled.
From The Daily Wire, Arizona and Texas blast President Biden's border security (or lack thereof) and call for back-up from other states.
From Newsmax, according to Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), the border crisis is "manmade" and is Biden's fault.
From Breitbart, the E.U. blocks the G7 from condemning China for its slave labor in the region of Xinjiang. (The article cites The Times, which is behind a paywall.)
And from The Babylon Bee, U.S. Democrats are shocked and disappointed that Israel's new prime minister will still be a Jew.
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