Friday, May 11, 2018

Friday Links

Another weekend looms ahead, another bunch of things that keep going on:

From CBS News, in a California high school, a 14-year-old reportedly shoots another 14-year-old.

From LifeNews, in China and India, abortion and infanticide have created a large gender imbalance.

From Scott Adams' Blog, "reframing Iran and the Middle East".

From Space War, according to some U.S. officials, inspections of Iran's nuclear sites should continue.

From The Blaze, former congressman Melvin Reynolds (D-FL) promises to lead the United States, but must first serve his third prison term.

From The Federalist, a podcaster brings her mother aboard to discuss the origin of Mother's Day.

From Breitbart London, according to the U.K.'s Forced Marriage Unit, almost 1,200 forced marriages were logged last year.

From Voice Of Europe, over 4,000 migrants entered Europe during this past April.

From Total Croatia News, about 3,500 migrants illegally enter Bosnia.

From Euractiv, Croatia adopts a new strategy for joining the Eurozone.

From ANSA, in Italy, the 5-Star Movement and League parties reach agreements on some issues.

From Ekathimerini, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker credits Italy and Greece for bearing the brunt of the migration into Europe.

From The Local FR, Bosnian prosecutors bring charges against a human trafficking gang which used children as pickpockets in French cities.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Russia Today, Russia's FSB foils a terror attack on a Victory Day march.

From the Evening Standard, the campaign group Leave.EU is fined for breaking spending rules.

From the Express, London Mayor Sadiq Khan upsets viewers by going on Piers Morgan's show when Morgan himself was absent.

From the Independent, an estimated 5.4 million migrant children live in Europe.  (This site is Maltese, and is not to be confused with the U.K. site having the same name.)

From France24, teaching manuals in Saudi-financed mosques in Belgium show stereotypes of Jews and call for persecuting homosexuals.

From the Daily Mail, a Sudanese teenager is given the death penalty for killing the man she was forced to marry.

From Israel Hayom, Gaza's leaders will reportedly not stop Gazans from breaching the border with Israel.

From FrontpageMag, American Muslims believe things for which non-Muslims would be accused of Islamophobia.

From Townhall, California wants Christians to "evolve".  (Will the state suggest that biblical verses be deleted, like some in France suggested for certain koranic verses?)

From the Los Angeles Times, the new American embassy in Jerusalem will be modest, and probably temporary.

From NewsBusters, the media largely ignore an autopsy on Stephon Clark which appears to favor the police who shot him.

From Breitbart Tech, Reed College in Portland, Oregon gives into student demands to remove white authors from a humanities course, but redefine "white" to exclude Greeks and Romans.  (Thus, they get the "stupid people" label.)

From Crux, bishops from Taiwan gather at the Vatican for the first time in 10 years.  (via The Daily Caller)

From The Hill, Starbucks now offers its bathrooms to the public.  (via National Review)

From The Verge, United Launch Alliance chooses an engine for its Vulcan rocket, but not its main engine.

From Philly(dot)com, a guide to Pennsylvania's primary elections.

From Fox News, Grace Kelly's restored childhood home will not become a museum.

From The Roanoke Times, former Virginia Tech football player Brandon Flowers returns to receive his degree.

From Global News, a man on the Toronto subway gets crabby.  (Brought to my attention by Kel the Red Fox Blogger during a BlogTalkRadio show.)

And from AzFamily(dot)com, an Arizona woman allegedly sent 65,000 text messages to a man she met online.  (via USA Today)

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