Thursday, August 15, 2019

Thursday Things - Part 2

As the rain fades away on a Thursday, here are some more things going on:

From Morocco World News, one in every six migrants going from the Mediterranean Sea to Italy died on the way.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey won't tolerate U.S. stalling on the safe zone for Syria.

From Turkish Minute, prosecutors in Kosovo investigate 22 police officers over the expulsion of six Turkish Gülenists.

From In-Cyprus, residents of Paphos, Cyprus organize to plant 100,000 trees.

From Rûdaw, villagers in Daquq, Iraq appear to Baghdad as ISIS has a resurgence.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli police nab 56 Arabs trying to enter Israel without authorization.

From The Times Of Israel, an Israeli policeman is stabbed in the Old City of Jerusalem.

From The Jerusalem Post, a preschool opens in a former Nazi concentration camp in Serbia.

From YNetNews, the suffering of Jews under Nazi occupation in northern Africa is added to Israel's school curriculum.

From Egypt Today, Libyan Air Force fighters strike a done control room at Zuwarah International Airport.

From StepFeed, a Lebanese NGO restores a historic site in Baalbek.

From Radio Farda, according to Iran's Ambassdor to the U.K., the country makes no guarantee that the oil tanker freed by Gibraltar won't go to Syria.

From IranWire, a teachers' activist is repeatedly punished by Iranian authorities in Evin prison.

From Dawn, three Pakistani soldiers die are killed in a clash with Indian soldiers near the Line of Control.

From The Express Tribune, thousands of people protest in London for Kashmir outside the Indian High Commission.

From Pakistan Today, a report accuses Indian troops of detaining children and molesting women in Kashmir.

From The Hans India, power utilities are ready to charge up electric vehicles.

From the Hindustan Times, Prime Minister Modi calls India "one nation with one Constitution".

From ANI, Indian politician Ram Madhav calls Ladakh "a land of all religions".

From India Today, according to a "senior government official", Independence Day celebrations in Jammu and Kashmir are peaceful.

From the Daily Mirror, a Pakistani envoy briefs Sri Lanka's foreign minister about the Indian controlled part of Jammu and Kashmir.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka and Bell Geospace sign an agreement for offshore gas and oil exploration.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran is reportedly using torture and execution to violate human rights.

From The Jakarta Post, China's ambassador to the U.K. says that his country will not "sit on its hands" if the situation in Hong Kong deteriorates.

From The Straits Times, the Chinese company Huawei is under fire for calling Taiwan a country.  (The Chinese government in Beijing regards Taiwan as a renegade province.)

From the Borneo Post, according to police, the visiting Irish teenager died of gastrointestinal bleeding.

From Free Malaysia Today, Indian Muslim cleric Zakir Naik claims to have been misquoted about saying that Chinese people should leave Malaysia.

And from The Mainichi, the typhoon Krosa, after hitting western Japan, enters the sea of Japan.

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