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"?