As a sunny Columbus day hangs around, here are some more things going on:
From Morocco World News, the Moroccan army refuses any dialogue with the Polisario Front.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish forces take control of the M4 highway in Syria.
From Turkish Minute, police prevent Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party officials from holding a press conference in Diyarbakır, Turkey. (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)
From Rûdaw, will sanctions and suspensions of arms exports stop Turkey's operation in Syria?
From In-Cyprus, Cyprus and Greece set up an economic cooperation mechanism.
From The Syrian Observer, a Syrian Kurdish politician and women's rights leader is killed in a car wreck. (The article cites Rûdaw, but does not provide any link.)
From Arutz Sheva, a forest fire breaks out southwest of Jerusalem.
From The Times Of Israel, researchers in Tel Aviv, Israel finds that a treatment for leukemia could be used to fight other types of cancer.
From The Jerusalem Post, the Palestinian Authority freezes the bank accounts of dozens of NGOs in the Gaza strip.
From YNetNews, Israel gets ready to extradite an accused Russian hacker to the U.S.
From Egypt Today, Egypt celebrates Air Force Day on the anniversary of the Battle of Mansoura.
From StepFeed, when men harass a woman in Kuwait, her dress is blamed.
From Radio Farda, photos and aerial imagery show damage to an Iranian oil tanker.
From IranWire, did Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corp lure a dissident journalist back to Iran to arrest him?
From Dawn, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrive in Pakistan for a five-day visit.
From The Express Tribune, Pakistan offers to host talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
From Pakistan Today, the "ever shifting priorities" of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.
From Khaama Press, over 1.7 million biometrically verified votes in Afghanistan's elections are transferred to a central server.
From The Hans India, according to Indian Prime Minister Modi, "only a few people" are offended by the revocation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.
From the Hindustan Times, Pakistan hands India a final draft of the Kartarpur corridor agreement.
From ANI, Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee becomes the 10th person of Indian origin to win the Nobel Prize.
From India Today, two terrorists in Kashmir kill a truck driver and assault an orchard owner.
From the Daily Mirror, two claymore mines are unearthed after a terror suspect is arrested.
From the Colombo Page, a Sri Lankan presidential candidate claims that the Five Great Forces are with him. (Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Obi Wan Kenobi, etc. will have to settle for having just one Force being with them.)
From The Sun, among the jihadis escaping from a prison in Syria is one known as the "ISIS matchmaker".
From BBC News, members of Turkey's soccer team are investigated for giving a military salute.
From News(dot)com(dot)au, a Turkish-backed Syrian militia reportedly executes Kurdish prisoners on the side of a road.
From Mumbrella, Australia's Press Council rules that an article in The Australian about "violent Islam" breached its standards of practice. (Again I ask, what is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)
From The Jakarta Post, according to an editorial, Indonesia needs a better cabinet.
From The Straits Times, tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters enter Chater Garden in central Hong Kong.
From the Borneo Post, police in Malaysia point out that hydrogen, not helium, causes balloons to explode.
From Free Malaysia Today, Indian supporters of ISIS claim to have been influenced by videos by Dr. Zakir Naik, who now lives in Malaysia.
From The Mainichi, photos from the search and rescue efforts in Japan in the aftermath of the Typhoon Hagibis.
And from Gatestone Institute, "extinction rebellion" and the "child stalking horse".
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