MWN- besides the election

 

So I thought I'd look over my usual haunts- and a few unusual ones- and see what BESIDES our election was the top story.  Amazingly enough, not everyone even mentioned you know who and you know who (even if he doesn't).  Finland had nothing on them- they led with a 'just as interesting' (AKA OMG this is dry) discussion of the nation's place in the EU by a member of parliament who noted he didn't have a lot of say in the matter.  Egypt was less news and more "what should we as Muslims be insulted by today", with the lead a long and just about as dry statement by an Imam who chewed out the French foreign minister over French Prez Macron defending journalists who publish cartoons that 'make fun of Muhammad- peace be upon him'.

In addition, the dynamic duo didn't dominate EVERY news site.  Japan started with a report on the ceremony that officially made Crown Prince Akishimo the first in line for the Japanese crown.  At least, until he meets the Japanese Meghan Markle.  The next in line was preliminary discussions of a joint Japan/USA space adventure.  Of course, the chances of that probably went up in smoke last week, so...

Fox News, CNN, and the BBC all went second with the saddest news story of the day...

...the passing of a true man of courage- Alex Trebek.  I would have thought Canada would have, too, but their first feature was on the rising COVID numbers. He did still beat out Those Two Guys, though.

COVID was much on the mind of the news sites.  The Moscow Times reported a third straight day of 20K new positives; and in India, after 7 weeks of dropping cases, they had a slight uptick this week- leading doctors to speculate that the fall of cases "has bottomed out."

Now there were a few more non-typical "other headlines".  Here they come in order of my looking them up:

Russia's Tass: A discussion of how officials should do a thorough investigation on the Vienna terror shootings last week before speculating- and then, after wasting three paragraphs on why that is, pointing out that Austrian officials were doing just that.  Tass is a lovely news source that reads like the minutes of the last Supreme Soviet.

Deutsche Welle of Germany: A discussion on why the consumption of meat is now a topic for sociology, complete with gender ramifications.

Australia: Former PM Malcolm Turnbull discusses the government in Canberra's "culture of boozing and screwing the staff" on an upcoming news show.  Now that I'd totally watch!

Note:  I know little about the man, I just wanted what appeared to be the funniest meme...

China's Xinhua gave the usual rousing story about the China International Import Expo.  In that article, I learned more about powdered camel's milk from Kazakhstan than I'll ever apply...

And finally, from France 24, the exciting announcement that Jean-Luc Melenchon- their version of Bernie Sanders- will run for president in 2022, once again- IF he can manage to get 150,000 signatures on a petition asking him to by them.  Otherwise, he'll just ask the DNC for his quadrennial free house... oh, wait...