Now that the football game that I wanted to watch has concluded, here are some things going on:
From The Jakarta Post, young Indonesians gather to tackle the country's waste problem.
From The Straits Times, after their plan to disrupt airport operations fails, Hong King protesters occupy roads and subway stations. (Because their actions include vandalism, I'm giving this story the "thug-style politics" label.)
From the Borneo Post, Malaysia's National Registration Department tells the public to stop spreading fake news.
From Free Malaysia Today, more than 1,000 people go to a mosque in Melaka, Malaysia to pray with controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik.
From The Mainichi, the Typhoon Faxai appears headed toward Japan.
From the Daily Mirror, parliamentcritters from several South Asian countries agree that the minimum age for marriage should be 18.
From the Colombo Page, the Bangladeshi ship Somudra Avijan arrives in Colombo, Sri Lanka for a goodwill visit.
From The Hans India, as the lander from the spacecraft Chandrayaan-2 appears to have not made a soft landing, NASA points out that lunar missions have a 40 percent fail rate. (The main craft remains in lunar orbit.)
From the Hindustan Times, the Indian Space Research Organization will continue to try to contact the lander, named Vikram, for 14 days.
From ANI, India's space scientists are not giving up.
From India Today, more on the developments which occurred during the Chandrayaan-2 mission.
From Khaama Press, terrorists kidnap six journalists in Afghanistan's province of Paktiya.
From Dawn, Pakistan forbids India's president from flying through its airspace.
From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani foreign ministry summons the Indian Charge d'Affairs over an alleged ceasefire violation along the Line of Control in Kashmir.
From Pakistan Today, according to the Pakistani military's Inter-Services Public Relations, India is preparing for a false-flag operation.
From Radio Farda, Iranian soccer players express support for a woman who set herself on fire after being denied entry to a stadium.
From IranWire, an Iranian appeals court upholds prison sentences given to two activists, even though they had no trial. (What is this "due process" you speak of?)
From Rûdaw, two Iraqi soldiers are killed while trying to defuse explosives in a booby-trapped house.
From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, joint patrols with the U.S. in the Syrian safe zone will start tomorrow.
From In-Cyprus, the next step toward resolving problems in Cyprus will be defined in a series of meetings in New York.
From Arutz Sheva, two Israelis are wounded after visiting their dentist.
From The Times Of Israel, terrorists deliver explosives into Israel by drone.
From The Jerusalem Post, according to Blue and White knessetcritter Moshe Ya'alon, his party will not join any coalition led by Prime Minister Netanyahu. (A knessetcritter is the Israeli equivalent of a U.S. congresscritter.)
From YNetNews, two Jews who fought against Nazi Germany remind everyone to "never forget".
From Egpyt Today, how did Egyptian nuclear scientist Abu Bakr Ramadan die in Morocco?
From Morocco World News, the Internet in Morocco has had some technical difficulties, possibly due to a fault in a transatlantic cable.
From Al Arabiya, Sudan's minister of religious affairs asks Jewish emigrants to return.
From Gatestone Institute, the negotiations between the U.S. and the Taliban may be a "Qatari trap".
From National Review, the truth about Louisiana politican Huey Long. (The author is a descendant of a state Senator who opposed Long.)
From Townhall, Senator Tom Tillis (R-NC) suggests that Christine Blasey Ford's allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh should be investigated.
From The Washington Free Beacon, more American teenagers are suffering from depression.
From the Washington Examiner, while speaking at the New Hampshire Democratic Party Convention, former Vice President Biden mispronounces President Trump's last name, and the only 2020 Democratic presidential candidate with combat experience finds that it doesn't count for much.
From American Thinker, a new book attempts to debunk Howard Zinn.
From NewsBusters, Trump's real opponent in 2020 is the media.
From The Stream, is gay marriage really analogous to interracial marriage?
From Twitchy, on Twitter, the Associated Press needs two attempts to identify the perpetrators of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.
From Fox News, the anniversary of the massacre "reminds us of the need to fight anti-Semitism and terrorism".
From the Daily Caller, ProFa calls a black man who had tried to deradicalize KKK members a "white supremacist".
From Breitbart, Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal) responds to a man who calls Trump's actions "mentally retarded" with "well said".
And from the New York Post, the U.S. Coast Guard has rescued 295 people in the Bahamas in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian.
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