Stories To Conclude August

On the last day of August, here are some things going on:

From National Review, despite rhetoric from his administration, President Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan was not a success.

From FrontpageMag, the shocking parallels between Biden's policies on Afghanistan and immigration.

From Townhall, who benefits from the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan?

From The Washington Free Beacon, in June, Biden waved a mandate that would have required the Pentagon to report to Congress about the risks of leaving Afghanistan.

From the Washington Examiner, the Pentagon denies leaving military service dogs in Afghanistan.

From The Federalist, the Biden presidency is already a disaster, and he's got no one to blame but himself.

From American Thinker, what "high crimes and misdemeanors" meant in 1787.

From CNS News, according to congresscritter Jim Jordan (R-OH), it should be no surprise that five things happen when Democrats get their way.

From LifeZette, congresscritter Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal) makes an "awkward" claim about the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

From NewsBusters, according to right-wing commentator Brent Bozell, the withdrawal from Afghanistan is so bad that even Biden's media hacks can't save him.

From Canada Free Press, the mindless criticizing of then-President Trump makes no sense after what Biden has done.

From Global News, the U.S. helps bring Afghan refugees to Canada, but 1,250 Canadians are still in Afghanistan.

From TeleSUR, Mexico's National Migration Institute suspends two agent for alleged misconduct in an operation to control a migrant caravan.

From TCW Defending Freedom, with apologies to parliamentcritter Stella Creasy (Labour), the Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan is indeed Islam.

From the Evening Standard, Extinction Rebellion protesters occupy parts of two bridges in London.  (Do the streets leading to those bridges go anywhere near the Chinese embassy?)

From the Irish Examiner, Taoiseach Micheál Martin announces a "significant reduction" in Ireland's coronavirus restrictions.

From The Brussels Times, what's new in Belgium starting tomorrow.

From Dutch News, the Dutch government will end its financial support for businesses hit by coronavirus restrictions on October 1st.

From Free West Media, Germans expect and fear a new wave of refugees.

From Euractiv, Norway starts pumping natural gas from the third stage of its Troll gas field.

From Hungary Today, Hungarian official Árpád János Potápi delivers school supplies to first-graders in Hungarian-language schools in the Serbian region of Vojvodina.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at OrientPress.)

From ReMix, Hungary and Russia agree to a 15-year gas deal.

From Sputnik International, President Putin will travel to Russia's far east to attend an economic forum.

From The Sofia Globe, 12 districts in Bulgaria are coronavirus red zones.

From Ekathimerini, plans to create a new ministry in the Greek government are dropped.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the first Afghan refugees arrive in North Macedonia.

From Balkan Insight, Moldovans celebrate the anniversary of their country's return to the Latin alphabet.

From EuroNews, three Balkan states create their own mini-Schengen.

From The Slovenia Times, the annual inflation rate in Slovenia for August in 2.1 percent, due to a rise in fuel prices.

From Malta Today, plans for reopening schools in Malta are finished and await the health authority's approval.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, Swiss police fatally shoot an alleged knife-wielding man who had been "seen praying".  (If you read French, read the story at Les Observateurs.)

From RFI, French President Emmanuel Macron will unveil a multi-billion euro plan to deal with crime in the city of Marseilles.

From The North Africa Post, Spain refuses to host the leader of Polisario a second time, thus avoiding a new crisis with Morocco.

From Turkish Minute, according to a poll, support for Turkey's governing Justice and Development Party has declined to 29.1 percent.

From The Times Of Israel, Israel hands every child a do-it-yourself coronavirus test.

From Egypt Today, according to President Abdel El Sisi, Egypt has has modern and integrated infrastructure.

From The New Arab, why democracy in Tunisia is at a crossroads.

From IranWire, the victims of child marriage in Iran have no voice.

From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani government reduces the price of petroleum products.

From The Afghanistan Times, the U.N. urges the Taliban to allow Afghans to travel abroad.  (I'm pleasantly surprised to learn that The Afghanistan Times still exists.)

From India Today, several people are injured in a stampede at a coronavirus vaccination site in Banarhat, West Bengal, India.

From New Age, many centers in Bangladesh suspend coronavirus vaccinations.

From the Daily Mirror, for the first time in history, twin baby elephants are born in Sri Lanka.

From TRT World, music goes silent in Afghanistan.

From The Straits Times, Singapore will send 500,000 coronavirus vaccine doses to Australia, which will return the favor in December.

From the Borneo Post, according to its chief minister, 91 percent of the adults in the Malaysian state of Sarawak have received their first dose of coronavirus vaccine.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnam Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh inspects a coronavirus treatment hospital in the capital city of Hanoi.

From Gatestone Institute, President Biden lets China "get away with the crime of the century".

From The Stream, Wisconsin reportedly lost track of 82,000 ballots in the 2020 election.

From The Daily Signal, Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) is photographed without a mask at a wedding despite an indoor mask mandate.

From Energy Daily, converting thermal energy into electricity could help military personnel.

From The American Conservative, "unworthy of the sacrifice".

From The Western Journal, the illegal alien who brutally murdered Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts learns his sentence.

From BizPac Review, a reporter hits White House press secretary Jen Psaki with a quote from the sister of a Marine killed in the Kabul suicide bombing.

From The Daily Wire, the Biden administration is considering giving aid to the Taliban despite its designation as a terrorist group.  (Wouldn't that be giving aid and comfort to our enemies?)

From the Daily Caller, according to a Pentagon spokesman, Americans "get stranded" overseas "all the time".

From Breitbart, according to a survey, Virginia gubernatorial candidates Terry McAuliffe (D) and Glenn Youngkin (R) are in a dead heat.

From Newsmax, according to new research, a major contributor to coronavirus-related deaths is a high viral load in the lungs.

From the New York Post, an interpreter who helped save then-Senator Biden in Afghanistan in 2008 is now stranded there.

And from The Moscow Times, a Russian sushi delivery chain apologizes for featuring a black man in an advertisement.

Monday Links

On the last Monday in August, here are some things going on:

From National Review, why the case for the Democrats' latest spending binge doesn't hold up.

From FrontpageMag, why Turkey celebrates the Battle of Manzikert every August 26th.

From Townhall, President Biden meets with the pregnant widow of a Marine killed in Kabul, which does not go well.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis) seek an investigation into why Americans were denied entry into the Kabul airport.

From the Washington Examiner, Hurricane Ida leaves a million people in Louisiana and Mississippi without power.

From The Federalist, pretending that the coronavirus is an emergency is killing America.

From American Thinker, why the blame for the fiasco in Afghanistan belongs solely on Biden.

From CNS News, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) calls the withdrawal from Afghanistan under Biden "one of the worst foreign policy decisions in American history".

From LifeZette, "woke masochism is killing America", which is what the left loves.

From NewsBusters, what kind of school will out children go back to?

From Canada Free Press, is Biden's debacle in Afghanistan the result of incompetence or of intent?

From CBC News, Bullwinkle is saved from a muddy fate in Timmins, Ontario, Canada.

From TeleSUR, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro believes that he will not go to jail, but might have a worse fate.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the British should speak out against the coronavirus control freaks.

From Snouts in the Trough, Biden goes to sleep, and a truthful ad from the Australian government.

From the Express, a new report tears to shreds economic warnings from Project Fear.

From the (Irish) Independent, what we know about the Irish government's plans to further ease is coronavirus restrictions.

From VRT NWS, the sacked mayor of De Panne, Belgium refuses to give back the keys to its town hall.

From the NL Times, 11 stowaways are arrested at the port of Rotterdam, Netherlands with the help of a "migration dog".

From Deutsche Welle, according to an opinion column, the race to succeed German Chancellor Angela Merkel is "wide open".

From AP News, German authorities arrest a women for allegedly transferring money to an ISIS-linked group.

From the CPH Post, an island thought to be the world's most northerly holds that title for only a short time.

From Polskie Radio, according to President Andrzej Duda, schools in Poland are set for a "normal" return.

From ReMix, 13 people, including a member of a Soros-linked foundation, are arrested for allegedly damaging Poland's border fence with Belarus.

From Radio Prague, economists expect a sharp rise in salaries in the Czech Republic for the second quarter.

From The Slovak Spectator, a special military plane will evacuate people from Afghanistan to Slovakia.  (If you read Slovak, read the story at Denník.)

From Daily News Hungary, has the coronavirus decreased life expectancy in Hungary?  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at G7.)

From Russia Today, Alexey Navalny's situation shows that anti-Russia sanctions achieve nothing.

From Romania-Insider, the IMF predicts a good year for Romania's economy.

From Novinite and the "I'll drink to that" department, alcohol prices in Bulgaria are among the lowest in the E.U.

From the Greek Reporter, a protest against mandatory coronavirus vaccination in Greece turns violent.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, opposition party leaders in Republika Srpska oppose changes to the Dayton peace agreement.

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo leaders welcome the first group of refugees from Afghanistan.

From Total Croatia News, the Gorski Kotar tourist board creates the largest virtual walk in Croatia.

Form Total Slovenia News, Slovenia's Financial Administration proposes a 10 percent tax on transactions involving cryptocurrency.

From The Malta Independent, Infrastructure Malta points out that it does not merely "buy" trees but also takes care of them.

From ANSA, six men are cited for a brawl at a hotel on the Italian island of Capri.  (I visited Capri during my trip to Italy in 2001, but did not get into trouble.)

From EuroNews, firefighters tackle a blaze at an apartment tower in Milan, Italy.

From Free West Media, Austrian soldiers risk their lives in Kabul for 76 "asylum seeker vacationers".

From SwissInfo, despite research on the coronavirus, animal testing decreased in Switzerland during 2020.

From France24, France makes its coronavirus health pass mandatory for 2 million workers.

From Euractiv, could Olympic athletes at the 2024 Olympics in Paris swim in the Seine?  (If you read French, read the story at Euractiv France.)

From El País, about 70,000 people form a human chain to protest the environmental crisis at Spain's  Mar Menor.

From The Portugal News, Americans of Portuguese descent connect to their roots.

From Morocco World News, Morocco has fully vaccinated 14.6 million people against the coronavirus.

From The North Africa Post, Tunisian politician Nabil Karoui is arrested in Algeria.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey celebrates its Independence War victory.

From Rûdaw, two ISIS leaders are killed and another arrested in the Iraqi province of Diyala.

From Armenpress, Russian peacekeepers are trained on preventing the use of drones in the region of Nagorno Karabakh.

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus responds to the European Commission's request to accommodate refugees from Afghanistan.

From The Syrian Observer, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian arrives in Syria to discuss economic terrorism.

From The961, mothers of victims of the Beirut port explosion protest political interference with the investigation of the blast.

From Arutz Sheva, IDF soldiers protest, asking to be allowed to defend themselves.

From the Egypt Independent, a court in Cairo acquits four civil society entities accused of receiving foreign funds.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopian Airlines and Boeing agree to use Ethiopia as a hub for aviation in Africa.

From The New Arab, Lebanon's only school for autistic children will close.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi appoints a new atomic agency head who has no experience in that field.

From Dawn, according to a former Pakistani ambassador to the U.S., Prime Minister Imran Khan needs to replace his entire cabinet.

From Khaama Press, a rocket launched from an unknown location lands in a residential neighborhood near Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, killing seven civilians.

From ANI, according to its chief medical officer, the Indian state of Jharkhand is ready to combat a possible third coronavirus wave.

From the Dhaka Tribune, experts in Bangaldesh expect another coronavirus wave in three weeks.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan army veteran Dinesh Priyantha Herath wins a historic gold medal in the javelin throw at the Tokyo Paralympic Games.

From Samaa, Pakistani actress Sanam Chaudhry deletes all her photos on Instragram.

From Free Malaysia Today, new Malaysian ministers and deputy ministers are sworn in before their king.

From The Mainichi, according to Japan's health ministry, contamination to coronavirus vaccines in the prefecture of Okinawa was caused by rubber stoppers.

From Gatestone Institute, Lebanon will combat "normalization" with Israel.

From The Stream, the U.S. State Department turns Americans back at the Kabul airport.

From The Daily Signal, how the search for identity spurred the sexual revolution and gender ideology.

From Space War, according to the U.N. atomic agency, North Korea appears to have restarted its nuclear program.

From The American Conservative, the U.S. Special Immigrant Visas program was and is poorly defined and executed.

From The Western Journal, 8 percent of all Humvees ever made have been left behind in Afghanistan.

From BizPac Review, citizens in Palm Beach County, Florida are fed up with school board members acting like petty tyrants.

From FDD's Long War Journal, a man who once served as Osama bin Laden's security chief makes a triumphant return to his hometown in Afghanistan.  (via The Daily Wire)

From The Daily Wire, according to the Biden administration, about 300 Americans are still in Afghanistan, and it has "considerable" leverage over the Taliban.

From the Daily Caller, childhood obesity has skyrocketed during the coronavirus lockdowns.

From the New York Post, according to billionaire John Paulson, cryptocurrencies will "go to zero".  (The article cites a story in Bloomberg, which is behind a paywall.)

From Breitbart, in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, thousands call on the Cajun Navy.

From Newsmax, according to Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards (D), the death toll from Ida could climb "considerably".

And from The Babylon Bee, the campaign of California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) finds Republican candidate Larry Elder's high school yearbook, which shows him in blackface.

Sunday Links

On a cloudy Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Christians must speak up for women in Afghanistan.

From Townhall, a U.S. airstrike stops suicide bombers in their tracks.

From The Washington Free Beacon, America's "founding formula".

From the Washington Examiner, Hurricane Ida strikes Louisiana on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

From American Thinker, the U.S. could have dodged the delta coronavirus bullet.

From LifeZette, the visit of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the U.S. could get interesting.

From NewsBusters, ABC fill-in host Martha Raddatz calls out Secretary of State Antony Blinken for telling Americans to "trust" the Taliban.

From Canada Free Press, with the catastrophe in Kabul, did the Democrats finally destroy themselves with their fixation on destroying former President Trump?

From TeleSUR, more about Hurricane Ida.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a sensible speech on the climate that U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will never make.

From Free West Media, Chancellor Angela Merkle lies about rescuing Germany's allies in Afghanistan.

From EuroNews, French President Emmanuel Macron visits mosques and churches in the ruins of Mosul, Iraq.

From Euractiv, Russia cracks down on Tatars in Crimea.

From The North Africa Post, a U.N. fact-finding mission led by Moroccan politician Mohamed Aujjar completes it first visit to Libya.

From The New Arab, Syrian government forces bombard and block fuel and food deliveries to the city of Daraa Al-Balad.

From News18, several days after drinking tea with him, the Taliban kill an Afghan folk singer.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, Islamic officials in Germany trivialize the Taliban.

From Gatestone Institute, U.S. President Biden's travel agency in Kabul, Afghanistan.

From The Stream, the favorite quote of communist founder Karl Marx.

From The Daily Signal, "the view from Omaha Beach".  (The article's writer is former Vice President Pence.)

From The American Conservative, how wokeness hurts Western influence in Africa.

From The Western Journal, a family member claims that former President Trump will run in 2024.

From BizPac Review, Biden and Dr. Fauci talk about coronavirus vaccine booster shots, to be taken every 5 to  months.

From Fox News, according to correspondent (and gang-rape survivor) Lara Logan, Taliban rule will be "a long slow death" for women in Afghanistan.

From The Daily Wire, a Marine commander is fired after demanding "accountability" from the Biden administration over the disaster in Afghanistan.

From the Daily Caller, Secretary of State Antony Blinken claims that the U.S. never gave a list of American citizens and allies to the Taliban, and then proceeds to name some of those names.

From the New York Post, video shows the eye of Hurricane Ida.

From Breitbart, our wall will not let migrants through, says Greece.

From Newsmax, tourists stranded in New Orleans gather for Mass at the oldest Catholic cathedral in the U.S.

From The Georgia Star News, the Department of Education will not enforce a due process protection for college students accused of sexual assault.

And from ZeroHedge, during protests two years ago, climate change activists in London left behind 120 tons of trash.

Saturday Stuff

On a warm partly cloudy Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Supreme Court gives a welcome rebuke to President Biden's lawless actions on housing.

From Townhall, according to the Pentagon, a U.S. drone strike killed two "high-profile" members of ISIS-K in Afghanistan.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration has had some other recent losses at the Supreme Court.

From the Washington Examiner, California wisely adds some natural gas plants to its power grid.

From American Thinker, critical race theory has some surprising roots.

From Red Voice Media, then-President Trump warned four years ago against what Biden is doing now.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, "recalling the last recall" in California and the liberal media's dirty tricks.

From Canada Free Press, Kendra has figured out what's going on.

From TCW Defending Freedom, why the coronavirus cult has so many believers.

From Free West Media, for a racial counseling job at a university in Berlin, "white people need not apply".

From EuroNews, a fishing boat carrying over 500 migrants arrives at the Italian island of Lampedusa.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, North Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras are awarded the Peace Prize of Westphalia for 2020.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco's plan for autonomy in the Sahara region draws "strong international support".

From The New Arab, security in Baghdad is stepped up ahead of a regional summit.

From RAIR Foundation USA, among Afghans evacuated on planes going to the West are terrorists and criminals.

From Gatestone Institute, the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is another victory for Iran's mullahs, handed to them by the Biden administration.

From The Stream, lies about J.R.R. Tolkien.

From Space War, U.S. drone strikes in Afghanistan target an ISIS-K "planner".

From The American Conservative, a revisionist history of World War II places the blame on the Soviet Union.

From BizPac Review, reports of coronavirus deaths on a single day in Florida appear to have been exaggerated.

From The Western Journal, U.S. allies realize that they can't trust President Biden.

From The Daily Wire, can we "imagine no big cities"?

From the Daily Caller, talk show host Bill Maher asks if some people have lost their [bleep]ing minds.

From the New York Post, how synagogues in New York city are handling this year's high holidays amid the delta coronavirus variant.

From Newsmax, noted lawyer Alan Dershowitz weighs in on court battles about mask mandates.

And from Breitbart, Biden's seven disasters in seven months.

Friday Phenomena

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

From National Review, our nightmare in Afghanistan gets worse.

From FrontpageMag, President Biden has his Benghazi.

From Townhall, according to congresscritter Seth Moulton (D-MA), there's no plan to get Americans out of Afghanistan.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and congresscritter Mike Waltz (R-FL) call on Biden to recognize opposition forces in Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley.

From the Washington Examiner, some terrorists from Afghanistan could get to a place much closer to the U.S.

From The Federalist, no matter what happens in the recall of Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Cal), undermines left-wing plans to "Californicate" America.

From American Thinker, yet, there really is Trump derangement syndrome.

From CNS News, the aforementioned congresscritter Waltz has some recommendations for Biden in Afghanistan.

From LifeZette, according to Arizona's attorney general, terrorists are already getting to the U.S.

From NewsBusters, MSNBC wants Biden to get more positive press.

From Canada Free Press, no matter what name they use, terrorists are terrorists.

From TeleSUR, the people of El Salvador say "no" to Bitcoin.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a weekly round-up of climate scaremongering.

From Snouts in the Trough, do we want the military to be warriors or "wokies"?

From Free West Media, according to a study in the U.K., most coronavirus-related deaths are among the "fully vaccinated".

From EuroNews, an Italian politician resigns his position in the League party after trying to rename a park after dictator Benito Mussolini's brother.

From Euractiv, French President Emmanuel Macron tells Ireland that "we will not let you down" on Brexit.

From ReMix, Hungary gets all of its citizens out of Afghanistan.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the Bulgarian Socialist Party gets the country's third mandate to form a government.

From Balkan Insight, Montenegrin police seize a tonne of she-don't-lie in a shipment of bananas.  (A tonne, also called a "metric ton", is 1,000 kilos.)

From The North Africa Post, Algeria decides to abandon a pipeline sent gas to Spain through Morocco.

From The New Arab, pro-Palestinian demonstrators in front of the White House protest Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet's visit to the U.S.

From YNetNews, Israeli Paralympic swimmer Mark Malyar wins the gold medal and sets a world record at the Tokyo Games.

From Gatestone Institute, supply lines from China could be disrupted.

From The Stream, "the hidden heroism of military contractors".

From The Daily Signal, President Biden puts the wrecking ball to the "special relationship" between the U.S. and the U.K.

From SmallBizDaily, what to do about a ransomware attack.

From Space Daily, the world's first space junk cleaning satellite successfully picks up some debris.

From The American Conservative, the causes of the wave of Afghans entering Europe.

From The Western Journal, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) prepares her inquisition.

From BizPac Review, Ashli Babbitt's widower reacts to her killer's interview.

From The Daily Wire, right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro calls on Biden to resign or be impeached.

From the Daily Caller, who funds the terror group ISIS-K?

From Breitbart, Biden again refuses to answer questions about the debacle in Afghanistan.

From Newsmax, Biden owns the disaster in Kabul.

And from the New York Post, how female hummingbirds avoid sexual harassment.

Thursday Things

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

From National Review, according to a poll, large numbers of Americans think that President Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan was handled "badly".

From FrontpageMag, we've misunderstood Islam for 40 years.

From Townhall, four U.S. Marines are killed in suicide bombings near the Kabul airport.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a poll, American support for Taiwan is at a historic high.

From the Washington Examiner, according to Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), the Taliban can't be trusted.

From The Federalist, Kenosha, Wisconsin is a liability for Democrats because they lit the flame and watched it burn.

From American Thinker, why the left hates automobiles, and it's not the carbon dioxide they produce.

From CNS News, most American voters don't trust the media's reporting on Afghanistan and say that the situation is actually much worse.

From LifeZette, according to congresscritter Michael McCaul (R-TX), the number of Americans still in Afghanistan is still higher than admitted by the Biden administration.

From NewsBusters, a book for "3-6" year old children teaches that transgenderism is normal and common.

From Canada Free Press, Americans must stand against Biden's tyranny or liberty will be extinguished.

From CTV News, Canada ends its mission in Afghanistan.

From TeleSUR, Guatemala assists Central American migrants who were deported from the U.S.

From TCW Defending Freedom, why the U.K.'s "grim milestone" of 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus is nonsense.

From the (U.K.) Independent, according to new official figures, the U.K. returned 13 Afghans during the past year and denied asylum to 400 others.

From Euractiv, the news website Politico will soon no longer be American-owned.

From About Hungary, according to Foreign Minister Szijjarto, Hungary's evacuation in Afghanistan is "nearing its end".

From The Moscow Times, if you're in northern Norway and must relieve yourself, don't aim toward Russia.

From Radio Bulgaria, truck drivers block a bridge over the Danube near Vidin, Bulgaria.

From the Greek City Times, Greek islands that may be reached from Athens in less than an hour and a half.  (I visited three of them in 1999.)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to Prime Minister Edi Rama, Albania can shelter 4,000 Afghan refugees.

From Balkan Insight, justice for war crimes committed during the Balkan wars of the 1990s is thwarted by the deaths of aging suspects.

From EuroNews, an Afghan recently arriving in Italy claims that the Taliban would have killed him.

From Free West Media, illegal migrants in Europe have become "a jackpot for dozens of non-profit organizations".

From The New Arab, Morocco plans to supply 4 percent of the world's hydrogen.

From The Jerusalem Post, as the Taliban rises, the alliance between the U.S. and Israel becomes "more critical than ever".

From The New Arab, Syrian government forces launch rockets and artillery at the city of Daraa Al-Balad.

From Iran International, Iran's new cabinet takes office.

From Pakistan Today, according to Prime Minister Imran Khan, Pakistan's economy improved during his three years in office.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, residents of the Afghan province of Nangarhar urge the Taliban to allow banks to resume their operations.  (So far it appears that Pajhwok Afghan News is still being allowed to carry out its operations.)

From the Hindustan Times, Indian health secretary Rajesh Bhushan warns that the second wave of the coronavirus is not over.

From Gatestone Institute, Europe braces for a flood of migrants from Afghanistan.

From The Stream, no, the things going on today do not indicate that the end is near.

From Space War, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and Chief of Space Operations General Jay Raymond stress the importance of space and the Space Force's success.

From The American Conservative, teddy bears and many other things can kill your kid.

From The Daily Signal, concerning women in Afghanistan, where are America's "feminists"?

From BizPac Review, how USAID imposes the worst of the U.S. onto foreign countries.

From The Western Journal, as Afghanistan burns, President Biden keeps pushing to close GITMO.

From The Daily Wire, calls for Biden's resignation grow after 12 U.S. military personnel are killed in terror attacks near the Kabul airport.

From the Daily Caller, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal) calls on Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) to bring Congress back into session before August 31st.

From the New York Post, nine members of an MS-13 subset are charged in connection to a spate of killings in California.

From Breitbart, Hollywood celebrities rush to save California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) from recall.

From Newsmax, former President Trump claims that he would never have allowed the chaos in Afghanistan to happen.

And from the Genesius Times, First Lady Jill Biden is arrested for alleged elder abuse.

Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, new New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) acknowledges 12,000 more coronavirus-related deaths than her predecessor did.

From FrontpageMag, President Biden gives jihadists a new safe space.

From Townhall, how not to persuade the unvaccinated to get vaccinated.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Biden's agenda "hangs by a thread".

From the Washington Examiner, a human smuggler is caught transporting illegal aliens in an SUV made to resemble a Border Patrol vehicle.

From The Federalist, seven reasons for hope while America's ruling class keeps lighting dumpster fires.

From American Thinker, a coronavirus update that's actually good news.

From CNS News, how did the 9/11 terrorists get into the U.S.?

From LifeZette, liberal knives comes out for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R).

From NewsBusters, Oregon Governor Kate Brown (D) mandate masks outdoors, even for the vaccinated.

From Canada Free Press, Biden's "absurdly cruel" exit from Afghanistan exposes left-wing lies.

From Global News, according to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada's evacuations from Afghanistan will end in the coming days.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan President Maduro signs an emergency decree for the state of Merida, recently struck by heavy rains.

From TCW Defending Freedom, coronavirus "influencers" in the U.K. are doing a "jabtastic" job.

From the Evening Standard, the U.K. accelerates its efforts to rescue its people from Afghanistan.

From the Irish Examiner, the Laois, Ireland county council refuses to allow the Electric Picnic to take place this year.  (The Electric Picnic is a music and arts festival which, under normal circumstances, takes place annually in Laois, Ireland.  The place's name is pronounced "lish".)

From The Brussels Times, when driving in Belgium, watch out for wild boars.

From Free West Media, a convicted gang rapist in Sweden is "handsomely rewarded".

From EuroNews, according to an NGO, a migrant stuck at the Poland-Belarus border "will soon die".

From ReMix, according to Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland is dealing with "hybrid warfare" from Belarus.

From Hungary Today, large numbers of fish and birds die in and around Hungary's Lake Velence.

From Sputnik International, a German court refuses to exempt the German-Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 from the E.U.'s third energy package.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria extends its coronavirus declaration to November 30th.

From Ekathimerini, the Greek Health Ministry suspends holiday leave for all healthcare workers starting on September 1st.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to Foreign and European Affairs Minister Gordan Grlić Radman, Croatia will oppose illegal migration.

From Balkan Insight, a Kosovo court upholds the sentence of a Kosovo Serb parliamentcritter for "ethnic hatred".

From The Slovenia Times, a lynx released into the wild in Slovenia's Gorejnska region has three kittens.

From Malta Today, an opponent of a proposed marina at Marsaskala, Malta refuses to have the place become a "garage for pleasure boaters".

From Italy24News, the coronavirus is again a "yellow nightmare" on the Italian islands of Sardinia and Sicily.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, an Austrian woman with Turkish roots gets 12 years in prison for spying for Turkey.  (If you read German, read the story at Exxpress.)

From France24, Paris honors the forgotten Spanish troops who started its liberation from Germany in World War II.

From Euractiv, the European Commission approves insect-derived protein for consumption by pigs and poultry.

From The North Africa Post, Tunisian President Kais Saied calls his country's parliament "a danger for the state".

From Turkish Minute, Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals rules that retweeting an "insulting post" constitutes a crime.

From The Times Of Israel, three months after the last conflict with Gaza, the IDF gears up for another round of fighting.

From Egypt Today, the head of Egypt's mission to Tripoli and Libyan ministers meet to discuss reopening the Egyptian embassy and consulates in Libya.

From The New Arab, an oil spill leaked from a power station spreads along Syria's coast.

From IranWire, an explanation of the Iranian government's intolerance toward Christian converts.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan tells Russian President Vladimir Putin that a peaceful Afghanistan is vital for Pakistan and regional stability.

From The Hans India, the Indian state of Goa will finally gets its own bulletproof vehicles in which to move its VIPs.

From New Age, the coronavirus death count in Bangladesh does not include deaths in many private hospitals.

From the Daily Mirror, according to IGP C.D. Wickramaratne, some statements about the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks are baseless.

From OnManarama, an Indian Muslim politician gets a death threat for making an anti-Taliban post on Facebook.

From Union of Catholic Asian News, Indonesian police arrest a Christian YouTube user for alleged blasphemy.

From Pulse, a sharia court in Nigeria sentences a Kannywood actress to six months for uploading "sexual contents" to social media.  ("Kannywood" refers to the Hausa-language film industry in northern Nigeria.)

From Michael Smith News, according to former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, the Taliban are "likely" to inherit Afghanistan's seat on the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women.

From The Straits Times, Singapore approves the entry of 230 short-term visitors from Hong Kong and Macau.

From the Borneo Post, three more longhouses are put under an Enhanced Movement Control Order in the Malaysian state of Sarawak.

Form Vietnam Plus, Vice President Vo Thi Ahn Xuan (Vietnam) welcomes Vice President Kamala Harris (U.S.).

From Gatestone Institute, "Cyberwar - Part One".

From The Stream, a guide for pro-lifers when talking about abortions.

From The Daily Signal, the British regard U.S. President Biden's Afghanistan debacle as betrayal.

From Space War, tracking the uranium cubes from Nazi Germany's failed nuclear program.

From The American Conservative, saving Russia's main streets.

From Bizpac Review, the Taliban warn women to stay indoors because their fighters are not trained to respect them.

From The Western Journal, experts name a new census phenomenon after Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA), which she certainly won't like.

From The Daily Wire, the Capitol Police officer who killed intruder Ashi Babbitt will give an interview.  (Will his name be revealed?)

From the Daily Caller, Delta Airlines will charge its employees $200 per month for not being vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From the New York Post, a woman is sentenced to up to two years in jail for coughing and spitting on food in a supermarket near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

From Breitbart, over 200 business, religious, and political leaders in the U.K. launch a campaign against coronavirus vaccine passports.

From Newsmax, a federal appeals court upholds the death sentence given to the Charleston, South Carolina church shooter.

And from Fox News and the "don't try this at home" department, what is the "milk crate challenge"?

Tuesday Tidings

Now that I've been back home for over a day, on a warm sunny Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, due to the debacle in Afghanistan, the media actually hold President Biden to account.

From FrontpageMag, how Constantinople saved the West from Islam, centuries before the Crusades.

From Townhall, Dr. Fauci's latest male bovine waste shows that the government's coronavirus efforts are about control, not public health.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Republicans call on the Pentagon's inspector general to start a formal investigation into the bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan.

From the Washington Examiner, Biden sticks with his August 31st withdrawal deadline.

From The Federalist, the Afghanistan debacle exposes Biden's descent into unreality.

From American Thinker, the Afghanistan debacle will send America's current ruling class into the dustbin of history.  (It's pretty clear that the word "debacle" is being tossed around frequently to describe what has happened in Afghanistan.)

From CNS News, according to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, al-Qaeda could again become a threat, and ISIS-K already is.

From LifeZette, now-former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) tears up during his resignation speech.

From NewsBusters, leftist hosts on CBS demand that felons are given the right to vote.

From Canada Free Press, how Florida Governor Ron DeSantis can defeat the coronavirus wolves.

From CBC News, three factors which will determine who Canada will fare during the fourth coronavirus wave.

From TeleSUR, the Guatemalan Congress repeals the state-of-calamity decree issued by President Alejandro Giammattei.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Migration Watch U.K. issues a new warning on the costs of mass migration.

From the Express, Prince Charles is affected "very deeply" by the fallout over Megxit.

From the (Irish) Independent, the city council of Dublin, Ireland will consider turning two streets into pedestrian zones.

From VRT NWS, Belgium sends 145 more troops to help with the evacuation from Afghanistan.

From the NL Times, the Netherlands administered less than 300,000 coronavirus vaccinations last week.

From Deutsche Welle, how reliable are opinion polls on the upcoming election in Germany?

From the CPH Post, fewer Danes are getting their first coronavirus vaccine dose.

From Polskie Radio, Polish F-16 fighter jets fly over Ukraine's Independence Day parade.

From EuroNews, Poland legalizes migrant pushbacks at its border with Belarus.

From ReMix, crossing from Belarus into Poland will be beyond the skill of even the world's best high-jumpers.

From Radio Prague, a new project enlists the Czech public to help save the endangered crucian carp.

From The Slovak Spectator, NGOs call on the Slovak government to rescue people from Afghanistan.

From Daily News Hungary, will some districts in Budapest, Hungary allow only locals to park their cars?  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at HVG.)

From Russia Today, according to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, the E.U. is more worried about Russia and China gaining from the West's defeat in Afghanistan than about the country itself.

From Euractiv, according to the leader of the oil company Rosneft, carbon taxes could hurt Russia more than sanctions.

From Romania-Insider, Romania will start issuing its first eID cards in September.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Digi24.)

From Novinite, Bulgarian Parliament Speaker Iva Miteva is favored for becoming Prime Minister.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece toughens coronavirus restrictions on the unvaccinated.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to Prime Minister Edi Rama, the Albanian code of honor requires Albanians to be hospitable.

From Balkan Insight, the murder of a teenage woman in Ferizaj/Uresevac, Kosovo sparks protests.

From Total Croatia News, Croatian opposition parliamentcritter Anka Mrak-Taritaš doesn't believe that the earthquake reconstruction in the capital city of Zagreb will amount to anything.

From Total Slovenia News, the European Commission warns Croatian Prime Minister Janez Janša that E.U. member states have an obligation to help Afghans at risk.

From The Malta Independent, Malta will allow standing events for people fully vaccinated against the coronavirus starting in September.

From ANSA, over 500 migrants land on the Italian island of Lampedusa in 24 hours.

From Swissinfo, Switzerland is having a "pandemic gender gap".

From France24, France detains a man evacuated from Afghanistan for possible Taliban links.

From Free West Media, France places five newly arrived Afghans under surveillance.

From El País, the Spanish government admits that it will have to leave behind some Afghans.

From The Portugal News, according to National Health Institute Dr. Ricardo Jorge, 100 percent of coronavirus infections in Portugal are of the delta variant.

From Morocco World News, Algeria cuts its diplomatic relations with Morocco.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco sets up a government body to combat money laundering and terrorism financing.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to President Erdoğan, the Turkish Central Bank will soon have over $115 billion in reserves.

From Rûdaw, Erbil, Iraq reestablishes bus services on the 100-meter ring road after six years.

From Armenpress, speaking in Moscow, Armenian Defense Minister Arshak Karapetyan indicates that Armenia plans to obtain new high-quality weapons.

From In-Cyprus, police in Cyprus fine 32 people and two establishments for violating coronavirus measures.

From The Syrian Observer, the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham forces Syrians in the region of Idleb to celebrate the Taliban victory in Afghanistan.

From The961, a student-based Secular Club is launched at Lebanon's Université La Sagesse.

From Arutz Sheva, the IDF deploys more troops at the Gaza border.

From the Egypt Independent, the Egyptian and French air forces conduct a joint training exercise.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopia repatriates 464 of its citizens from Saudi Arabia.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia allows the entry of fully vaccinated foreigners who face travel bans.

From The New Arab, Syrian government forces and allied militia personnel renew their assault on the city of Daraa Al-Balad.

From RadioFreeEurope/Radio Liberty, Iran reports a new daily record for coronavirus-related deaths.

From Dawn, Pakistan's National Command and Operation Centre announces that all air travelers, both foreign and domestic, will be required to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.

From Khaama Press, a Ukrainian plane is hijacked in Kabul and taken to Iran.  (It appears that Khaama Press still exists, at least for the time being.)

From India Today, police in the Indian state of Assam watch for "Taliban sympathisers".

From the Colombo Page, the World Bank supports a multi-sector coronavirus response in Sri Lanka.

From the Libyan Express, a woman holding Moroccan and Italian citizenship is freed from prison in Libya, after being jailed for "insulting Islam".

From The Jakarta Post, the Indonesian government promises to take care of children orphaned by the coronavirus pandemic.

From Free Malaysia Today, five reasons why a hybrid parliament was not implemented in Malaysia.

From The Mainichi, Japan will extend its coronavirus state of emergency to eight more prefectures.

From Gatestone Institute, U.S. President Biden is bringing extremism and terrorism back to life, according to Arabs.

From The Stream, self-described "Cuomosexuals" find an excuse for loving the former governor of New York.

From The Daily Signal, Biden tells private companies to mandate coronavirus vaccinations.

From Space War, the U.S. Space Force activates its Space Training and Readiness Command.

From The American Conservative, why renting all our lives is bad for our souls.

From The Western Journal, while on her overseas trip, Vice President Harris humiliates herself and her country.

From BizPac Review, a catastrophic electric vehicle fire "is not a matter of if, but when".

From The Daily Wire, four newborn babies in Adelaide, Australia died after being denied medical transport to Melbourne due to coronavirus restrictions.

From the Daily Caller, an American government worker in Kabul points out that she is stranded.

From the New York Post, the "bedlam" in Afghanistan takes a toll on Biden's approval ratings.

From Breitbart, former Governor Cuomo is stripped of his Emmy award.

From Newsmax, according to a majority of voters polled by Rasmussen, the Biden administration isn't doing enough to get Americans out of Afghanistan.

And from BBC News, Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts goes to Rock and Roll Heaven.