Saturday, October 5, 2019

Saturday Stories - Part 1

As a sunny but cool Saturday shows up, here are some things going on:

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia's military desires to become stronger and better.

From The Straits Times, thousand of protesters march in Hong Kong, defying a ban on face masks.

From the Borneo Post, young people in the Malaysian state of Sarawak are told to get ready for drones.

From Free Malaysia Today, southeast Asia's tallest building, in Kuala Lumpur, is ready to take on tenants.

From The Mainichi, despite getting the lowest number of visitors in decades, Mount Fuji gets its highest ever amount of donations.

From the Daily Mirror, the Archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka asks for security for Catholic institutions.

From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan Coast Guard will host a meeting of Coast Guards from other Asian countries.

From The Hans India, according to Indian politician Ram Madhav, leaders under house arrest in Jammu and Kashmir will soon be released.

From the Hindustan Times, two planes to be used as "Air India One" will include missile defense systems.  (The "Air India One" call sign will be used when the planes transport India's president, vice president or prime minister, in a manner similar to the American "Air Force One" or "Air Force Two".)

From ANI, Indian Border Security Force personnel demonstrate drones in Jammu, a village in the territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

From India Today, according to the chief minister of the Indian state of Mizoram, a proposed change to India's citizenship laws could bring in a flood of illegal immigrants.

From Khaama Press, the good guys in Afghanistan have another busy day.

From Dawn, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan advises the residents of the Pakistan-controlled part of Jammu and Kashmir against crossing the Line of Control.

From The Express Tribune, three more cases of polio are found in Pakistan.

From Pakistan TodayU.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres repeats his call for dialogue on Kashmir.

From Radio Farda, Iran and Australia release detainees from each other's country.

From StepFeed, 10 strange ways in which Arabs spend their free time.

From Rudaw, the district of Soran in the Iraqi province of Erbil will crack down on young men hanging around near girls' high schools.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to President Erdoğan, Turkey is ready for a military operation east of the Euphrates River in Syria.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish gendarmes reportedly arrest eight Kurds for singing in Kurdish.  (What is this "freedom of expression" you speak of?)

From In-Cyprus, the U.S. is not pleased with Turkey's offshore drilling near Cyprus, and neither is France.

From Arutz Sheva, the Palestinian Authority will receive 1.5 billion shekels from Israel.

From The Times Of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu gets some legal help from five Americans.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israeli and Palestinian officials start talks on a dispute over tax revenues.

From YNetNews, the Israeli city of Eilat cleans up its coast in an attempt to save its coral reef.  (Eilat is the southernmost city in Israel, and is on the coast of the Gulf of Aqaba, a branch of the Red Sea.)

From Egypt Today, Egyptian security forces arrest a criminal gang which had allegedly obtained 193 ancient statues and a sarcophagus.

From Morocco World News, the U.S. offers a bounty on a former Polisario member now thought to be affiliated with ISIS.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, German fans are prevented from entering a Turkish soccer stadium because their team's emblem includes Christian symbols.

From NDTV, according to Microsoft, Iranian hackers targeted an American presidential campaign.

From Gatestone Institute, Turkish President Erdoğan has overplayed his hand in the Khashoggi affair.

From TeleSUR, Cuba manages its fuel shortage with help from Venezuela and Russia.

From CBC News, why some First Nations in Canada want to stop the Trans Mountain pipeline, and others want to own it.

From Global News, Elections Canada monitors possible school strikes in Ontario ahead of the upcoming election.

From Canada Free Press, the "revenge of the swamp monsters".

From National Review, in the Midwest, service and sacrifice are still important.

From Townhall, Senator Elizabeth "Fauxahontas" Warren (D-MA) lies again.

From The Washington Free Beacon, arrests for ISIS involvement, here in the U.S., "are on the rise again".

From the Washington Examiner, eight Democrat congresscritters hold out against impeaching President Trump.

From The Federalist, Bloomberg retracts an article falsely accusing a Trump aide of anti-Semitism.

From American Thinker, how Trump can drain the swamp.

From LifeZette, former Vice President Biden "loses his cool" when asked about Ukraine.

From NewsBusters, TV host Jorge Ramos calls illegal immigration a civil right.

From The Stream, no, we don't need to eat babies right now.  (Nor should we ever, but let's just talk about the present.)

From WPVI-TV, Macy's is hiring for the holiday season.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) accuses Trump of anti-Semitism for his attacks on congresscritter Peter Schiff (D-Cal).

From TechRadar, next week, Dubai will take center stage demonstrating its AI, 5G technology, and autonomous vehicles.

From the New York Post, how a small dog taught her human to "climb every mountain".

And from Twitchy, Glenlivet comes out with "whiskey Tide Pods".

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