Monday, September 30, 2019

Links For A Rainy Monday - Part 2

As a rainy Monday hangs around, here are some more things going on:

From Morocco World News, a Moroccan court sentences a journalist to a year in prison for premarital sex and an abortion.  (Will Western abortion supporters protest in front of any Moroccan embassy?  I won't hold my breath.)

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish F-16s shoot down an unidentified drone near the Syrian border.

From Turkish Minute, Turks reportedly waste a lot of food.

From Rûdaw, an ISIS widow dies in an armed clash between ISIS women and female security guards at the Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria.

From In-Cyprus, a Cypriot girl becomes the "Top Debater" at the "Owlypia" competition in Cambridge, England.

From The Syrian Observer, a report from this past weekend.

From The Times Of Israel, according to the chief of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, destroying Israel is an "achievable goal".  (This corroborates what I've come to believe about the Islamic world's grievance against Israel.  Their principle complaint about Israel is not about anything that it has done, but about its very existence.)

From The Jerusalem Post, a mural honoring Israeli pioneer Hannah Senesh, who was killed by the Nazis after parachuting into a concentration camp in Hungary, will be created in San Diego.

From YNetNews, electoral gains made my Israeli Arabs revive an old dilemma.

From Egypt Today, the Egyptian State Information Service and Amnesty International have a falling out.

From StepFeed, visitors to Saudi Arabia should be wary of its "public decency" laws.

From Radio Farda, Iran is challenged by voter indifference.

From IranWire, Iranian parliamentcritters deal with more sex-tape scandals.

From Dawn, Pakistan plans to invite former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the inauguration of the Kartarpur corridor.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan reaches earthquake-stricken Azad Jammu and Kashmir, an announce a relief package.  (Pakistan refers to the part of Jammu and Kashmir it controls as azad, which means "free".  Pakistan and India each refer to the part of the region controlled by the other as "occupied".)

From Pakistan Today, Imran is set to reshuffle his cabinet again.  (The Pakistani naming custom appears to place the family name before the given name.  Thus, he is Prime Minister Imran instead of Prime Minister Khan.)

From Khaama Press, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah claims victory in the Afghan elections.

From The Hans India, Indian Prime Minister Nardendra Modi reports optimism about India from this visit to the U.S.

From the Hindustan Times, the High Court of the Indian state of Tripura orders a ban on animal sacrifice in Temples.

From ANI, according to the president of the political party AIMIM, the Indian government is not telling the truth about the situation in Kashmir.

From India Today, China pays tribute to the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka extends the deadline to apply for postal voting.

From The Asian Age, Imran Khan calls the act of standing by Kashmiris "jihad".

From the Metro, a driver in Somerset, England passes out behind the wheel and hits another car after fasting for Ramadan.

From Gatestone Institute, Turkey and Azerbaijan ban an Armenian chess champion.

From The Jakarta Post, police in Jakarta are slammed for allegedly preventing people from joining protests.  (What is this "right to peaceful assembly" you speak of?)

From The Straits Times, on China's National Day, security is stepped up in Hong Kong, which may discourage some protesters.

From the Borneo Post, according to Malaysia's foreign ministry, no Malaysian was affected by an earthquake in the Philippines, which occurred yesterday.

From Free Malaysia Today, scientists try to save Malaysia's Sumatran rhinos with an egg harvest.

From The Mainichi, hundreds of people are denied entry into the World Rugby Cup in Japan for having bogus tickets.

From TeleSUR, Venezuela denounces 54 alleged incursions by U.S. spy planes.

From CBC News, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia announces 17 new or expanded protected areas, with 10 more on the way.

From Global News, the government of British Columbia will introduce legislation to eliminate seasonal time changes.

From CTV News, according to Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, his party would support legislation to protect the rights of LGBTQ Canadians.

And from Canada Free Press, Democrats go "down to the sea".

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