Sunday, October 20, 2019

Sunday Stuff - Part 1

After two sunny days, Sunday gets here, and it's raining.  So as the rain comes down, here are some things going on:

From Morocco World News, the French language is in Morocco to stay.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey and Russia will discuss removing YPG terrorists from the Syrian cities of Manbij and Ain al-Arab.

From Rûdaw, U.S. forces leave Raqqa, Syria and head toward Iraq.

From In-Cyprus, American, Canadian and Israeli investors show interest in growing medical cannabis in Cyprus.

From Arutz Sheva, Blue and White leader Gantz tells Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, "you have failed again".

From The Times Of Israel, according to New Right party leader Naftali Bennett, Israel's judiciary seeks to "topple" Netanyahu.

From The Jerusalem Post, at the iCenter for Israel Education, visitors try to find the launch code that sends SpaceIL's spacecraft back to the moon.

From YNetNews, about 30 settlers throw rocks at an IDF patrol and slash the tires of their vehicle.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi sends an address to the participants in a Russia-Africa summit.

From StepFeed, at a protest in Tripoli, Lebanon, a party breaks out, including a disc jockey.

From Radio Farda, police arrest striking workers in Arak, Iran.

From Dawn, a Pakistani soldier and six civilians are reportedly killed by shelling across the Line of Control in Kashmir by Indian troops.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan rejects an Indian claim that Indian forces are targeting "launchpads" on the Pakistani side of the Line of Control.

From Pakistan Today, according to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, the Kartarpur Corridor will be opened on November 9th.

From Khaama Press, Afghan security forces bust a gang of armed robbers in Kabul.

From The Hans India, the Indian army launches an artillery attack on four terrorist camps in the Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir.  (The article uses the abbreviation "PoK", which stands for "Pakistan-occupied Kashmir".)

From the Hindustan Times, a peace accord is likely by the end of October between the Indian government and insurgents in the state of Nagaland.

From ANI, when in Kashmir, do not mess with these girls.

From India Today, a worker in the state of West Bengal is beaten up for chanting "Jai Sri Ram".

From the Colombo Page, a monitor is Sri Lanka's presidential election observes increased amounts of "hate speech".  (Of course, what constitutes "hate speech" can be very subjective.)

From Sahara Reporters, 147 victims of abuse are found in an illegal Islamic center in Kaduna, Nigeria.

From the Daily Mail, a Turkey-backed militia in Syria vows to behead any "infidel Kurd" they find.

From Gatestone Institute, the real cost of Turkey's obsession with the Kurds.

From The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian academics are warned against traveling to Iran.  (via Radio Farda)

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesian President Joko Widodo gives his inauguration speech.

From The Straits Times, an illegal march in Hong Kong "spirals into chaos".

From Free Malaysia Today, a second pygmy elephant is found shot dead, with its tusk removed, on a plantation in Beluran, Malaysia.

From The Mainichi, some Japanese restaurants are using silicone or steel straws instead of plastic ones.

From TeleSUR, Bolivians go to the polls today.

From CBC News, this year's Canadian federal election is the closest in recent memory.

From Global News, according to a Ipsos poll, Canadian Conservatives have a slight lead in popular support, but it may not help them to achieve a parliamentary majority.

From CTV News, the final day of the Canadian campaign season "will be anything but sedate".

From Canada Free Press, forget elephants and donkeys, it's foxy Trump against Democrat hyenas.

From National Review, the spate of retiring Texas Republican congresscritters shows their party's weakening grasp on their state.

From Townhall, Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-South Bend, IN) shamefully spins former Senator Hillary Clinton's attack on Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI).

From The Washington Free Beacon, 2020 Democratic presidential candidates lean on a myth that marijuana plays a major role in mass incarceration.

From the Washington Examiner, the tax plan proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) would tax billionaires more than they earn.

From American Thinker, Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal) claims that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) has committed crimes, but can't point out what those crimes are.

From LifeZette, Hillary Clinton's claim to have written to NASA when she was a "little girl" gets debunked on Twitter.

From NewsBusters, CBS touts Clinton's allegation that Gabbard is a "Russian plant" while NBC and ABC "pump the brakes".

From The Stream, New York City, which has no statues of women, will not build one of Frances Xavier Cabrini.  (Cabrini was born in Italy and immigrated to the United States.  Her remains are buried in New York, near the George Washington Bridge.  She was canonized by the Catholic Church in 1946.)

From Twitchy, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos points out to congresscritter AOC (D-NY) how her life bolsters the case for school choice.

From The Washington Times and the "it's about time" department, a court in Virginia dismisses charges against five black men who staged a sit-in at a whites-only library in 1939.

From Fox News, Gabbard attributes Clinton's "smears" against her to her support for Sanders in 2016.

From the New York Post, a former NYPD commissioner and the head of the correction officer's union both criticize the planned closing of Rikers Island.  (In other words, both management and the labor union are against the idea.)

From Variety, why the film Joker "is about all of us".

And from The Baltimore Sun, former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro III, brother of House Speaker Nancy Pelois, dies at age 90.

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