Saturday, August 17, 2019

Saturday Stories - Part 2

Here on a very warm Saturday are some more things going on:

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia's digital economy is expected to double by 2024.

From The Straits Times, despite rain, protests continue in Hong Kong.

From the Borneo Post, according to Defense Minister Mohamad Sabu, it's OK to criticize but not to belittle the Malaysian Armed Forces.

From Free Malaysia Today, the carcass of an endangered whale shark is found in waters off the Indonesian state of Johor.

From The Mainichi, 743 privately established monuments to Japanese war dead are damaged.

From the Daily Mail, Mahindra opens its first automotive factory in Sri Lanka.

From the Colombo Page, according to Sri Lanka's prime minister, young people must be given priority in changing the political system.

From The Hans India, Prime Ministers Narenda Modi (India) and Lotai Tschering (Bhutan) have a meeting.

From the Hindustan Times, according to Indian Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Article 370, which had given Jammu and Kashmir special status, became a "shield" for terrorists.

From ANI, three Maoists surrender in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.

From India Today, the weapons of over 250 special police officers in Jammu and Kashmir were seized before the revocation of Article 370.

From Khaama Press, Afghan Special Forces destroy Taliban weapons caches in two provinces.

From Dawn, the death of a brother of a Taliban leader will not affect talks with the U.S.

From The Express Tribune, according to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, the U.N. Security Council reaffirms the right of Kashmiris to self-determination.

From Pakistan Today, some phone lines are restored to the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir.

From Radio Farda, forced confessions loom over trials in Iran.

From Rûdaw, four female foreign workers die from sexual assault after being trafficked in Kurdistan.

From StepFeed, Dubai's ruler promises that next year's expo will be the best ever.

From Egypt Today, according to Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli, Egypt will "provide all forms of support for Sudan".

From Arutz Sheva, southern Israel has another missile alert.

From The Times Of Israel, the IDF strikes two Hamas targets in response to an earlier attack.

From The Jerusalem Post, knessetcritter Nir Barkat (Likud) has some travel suggestions for congresscritter Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich).

From YNetNews, a look at Israelis held in U.K. detention camps in Cyprus between 1946 and 1949.

From In-Cyprus, the Bishop of Morphou makes his first public statement since his remarks on gays.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, the joint (with the U.S.) operations center for the safe zone in Syria will "start soon".

From Turkish Minute, nine Turkish bar associations boycott the opening ceremony for the new judicial year in Ankara.

From Morocco World News, a lobbyist allegedly paid by Algeria "lashes out" at Morocco for "colonizing" Western Sahara.

From Gatestone Institute, American can and should stop China from dominating artificial intelligence.  (I welcome our new robot overlords, but not any communist robot overlords.)

From The Stream, identity politics should not be more important than faith or the unborn.

From Fox 29, the man who allegedly shot six policemen in Philadelphia is charged with attempted murder.  (via Fox News)

From the New York Post, the New York Yankees are protecting their bullpen like no one else.

From TwitchyBob O'Rourke learns something at a gun show and then makes an interesting conclusion.

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