Sunday, August 11, 2019

Sunday Stories - Part 1

Here on a sunny Sunday are some things going on:

From National Review, job security is a thing of the past.

From Townhall, former Vice President Biden's timing is off, you might say.

From The Washington Free Beacon, MSNBC has two ideas about whom to blame for Jeffrey Epstein's death.

From the Washington Examiner, Brazilian President Bolsonaro suggests a strange way to help the environment.

From American Thinker, a Q&A about the Middle East.

From NewsBusters, CNN host S.E. Cupp gets emotional on gun rights.

From CBC News, Canadian farmers work to capture carbon dioxide.

From Global News, Bianca Andreescu becomes the first Canadian tennis player to win the Rogers Cup in 50 years.

From TeleSUR, Guatemalans vote for their next president in a runoff election.

From The Jakarta Post, in Tangerang, Indonesia, a cow escapes being slaughtered by jumping out of a truck.  (It's a long way from "the cow jumped over the moon", but still a pretty good start.)

From The Straits Times, Hong Kong police use tear gas in at least five areas.

From the Borneo Post, according to a social activist, Asean countries must meet to deal with transboundary haze.  (The site spells the adjective "Asean" instead of "Asian".)

From Free Malaysia Today, a group of experienced hikers join the search for a missing Irish teenage girl.

From The Mainichi, personal items belonging to a Japanese soldier who died in the battle of Okinawa are returned to his family after 74 years.

From the Daily Mirror, according to the Philippine military, reports of Sri Lankan terrorists being in that country are "doubtful".

From the Colombo Page, a passenger arriving in Sri Lanka from India is arrested for carrying a kilo of methamphetamine.

From The Hans India, life in Kashmir after the end of the special status conveyed by Article 370.

From the Hindustan Times, restrictions are reimposed in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

From ANI, the situation in Jammu and Kashmir is normal, according to police.

From India Today, the Indian Army launches "Mission Reach Out" in Jammu.

From Khaama Press, Afghan Special Forces find and destroy a Taliban compound in the province of Uruzgan.

From Dawn, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan warns against Hindu supremacy.

From The Express Tribune, India seeks technical talks about the Kartarpur Corridor.

From Radio Farda, at least ten people are arrested in Mashhad, Iran for supporting a call for Supreme Leader Khamenei to resign.

From Rûdaw, Syrian forces advance into the province of Idlib.

From StepFeed, 11 funny memes for this Eid.  (According to Ayatollah Khomeini, there's no humor in Islam.  He appears to have been mistaken.)

From Arutz Sheva, according to a former Knesset member, Israelis should not show weakness on the Temple Mount.

From The Times Of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu clashes with right-wingers over the Temple Mount.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israel's Immigration Detention Review Tribunal rules that a Filipina woman and her Israel-born son may be deported.

From YNetNews, what Netanyahu can learn from his predecessor David Ben-Gurion.

From Egypt Today, Egyptians perform the Eid al-Adha prayer.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish sailors kidnapped off the Nigerian coast return safely to Turkey.

From Morocco World News, on Eid Al Adha, Morocco's King Mohammed VI pardons 350 prisoners.

From The Great Architect, the "unknown" genocide against Christians in Nigeria.

From Gatestone Institute, Russian President Putin and the Mullahs of Iran.

From The Stream, could the Church have avoided the culture wars?

From Breitbart, a pizza shop in Oxford, Mississippi offers free food to immigrants and refugees.

From the New York Post, New York's Mr. Bill puts on a campaign rally in Iowa, which draws about 15 people.

From the Daily Caller, Mr. Bill the former president wanted to appoint to the Supreme Court a man now "caught in the Epstein scandal".

And from Twitchy, right-wing commentator Byron York notices a shakeup among Democratic presidential candidates.

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