Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Wednesday Links - Part 2

Here in the middle of the week in the middle of September are some more things going on:

From Morocco World News, nearly 8 million people visited Morocco in the first seven months of 2019.

From Hürriyet Daily News, the number of migrants held in Turkey reaches an all-time high.

From Turkish Minute, the Turkish drillship Yavuz leaves the waters off Cyprus.

From In-Cyprus, a set of sculptures will be sunk into the sea off Kato Paphos, Cyprus.

From The Syrian Observer, 339 children have died at a tent camp for the wives and children of ISIS members.

From Rûdaw, Saudi Arabia displays evidence linking Iran to the attacks on its oil installations.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu tells the Likud party that "we will do everything to prevent a dangerous government".

From The Times Of Israel, with 95 percent of the vote counted, the Blue and White party leads Likud by one seat.

From The Jerusalem Post, more on the Israeli election results.

From YNetNews, Netanyahu declines to give a speech at the U.N. General Assembly.

From Egypt Today, Egyptians clean their beaches of plastic.

From StepFeed, the prime minister of Thailand encourages police to monitor Muslim students.

From Radio Farda, U.S. President Trump orders more sanctions on Iran.

From IranWire, Ranko, the "crooked human trafficker", has reportedly escaped to Sweden.

From Dawn, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurates a border crossing with Afghanistan at Torkham.

From The Express Tribune, the Siachen Glaciers in the Karakoram range are known as the "world's highest battlefield".

From Pakistan Today, Imran says that he will urge Trump to restart the talks with the Taliban.  (The Pakistani sources I use refer to the prime minister by "Imran" when using just one of his names, even though "Kahn" comes last.  I know that in some Asian cultures, the family name comes first, followed by the given name(s).  Perhaps this is also the tradition in Pakistan or parts thereof.)

From Khaama Press, an airstrike prevents a Taliban attempt to detonate two vehicles packed with explosives.

From The Hans India, an elephant missing for two months has returned, and its mahout has been arrested.

From the Hindustan Times, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's flight to the United States is denied permission to fly over Pakistan.

From ANI, several projects are inaugurated in Jammu and Kashmir, and in Ladakh.

From India Today, nine mortar shells are found and diffused along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.

From the Daily Mirror, explosives are found buried in Palamunai, Sri Lanka.

From the Colombo Page, a fort magistrate orders the burial of the body parts of one of the Easter Sunday suicide attackers.

From The Guardian, three Islamic clerics are arrested for alleged rape and fraud.  (This site is from Nigeria and shares the name of a U.K. site.)

From Asharq Al-Aswat, a court in Fez, Morocco postpones the trial of an Islamist leader accused to murdering a leftist student.

From Premier, about 2,000 Christians flee a village in Burkina Faso after an attack by ISIS.

From Gatestone Institute, are nuclear weapons in Turkey's future?

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia's National Nuclear Energy Agency is ready to launch a nuclear tourism experience.

From The Straits Times, Hong Kong's government won't concede to any more demands by protesters.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia plans to adopt an early screening system for foreign visitors.

From Free Malaysia Today, a court in Mumbai, India issues a new non-bailable warrant for Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, now in Malaysia.

From The Mainichi, Australian students are made "lords for a day" at Fukuchiyama Castle in Japan's Kyoto Prefecture.

From The Stream, one school is hit by a protest and another is slammed for its moral stance in Asheville, South Carolina.

From Twitchy, Christianity and "its white supremacist roots" are blamed for climate change.

From Reason, how the FBI abets terrorists and white supremacists.

From the Daily Caller, a "resistance hero" opposes President Trump with a one-finger salute at the sky.

From Numbers USA, a Chinese national pleads guilty to running a "birth tourism" operation.

From the New York Post, how New York Giants players are handling the team's switch at quarterback.

And from The Babylon Bee, a Canadian announces that his preferred pronoun is "eh".

1 comment:

  1. Invest with 200$ and get a returns of 5,000$ within seven business working days.
    Why wasting your precious time online looking for a loan? When there is an opportunity for you to invest with 200$ and get a returns of 5,000$ within seven business working days. Contact us now for more information if interested on how you can earn big with just little amount. This is all about investing into Crude Oil and Gas Business.

    Email: investmoneyoilgas@gmail.com

    ReplyDelete