Friday, November 22, 2019

Friday Fuss - Part 2

As a cool cloudy Friday hangs around, here are some more things going on:

From Morocco World News, Morocco plans to walk out of a possible free trade deal with Turkey.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey arrests and interrogates a high-ranking ISIS terrorists.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish prosecutors order the detention of another 138 Gülen followers.

From Rûdaw, Turkey confiscates U.S. weapons given to Kurds fighting against ISIS.

From In-Cyprus, owners of a "spy van" in Cyprus claim to be victims of a witch hunt.

From The Syrian Observer, according to Syria's foreign ministry, the actions of Turkish President Erdoğan show him to be an international outlaw.

From Arutz Sheva, according to a poll, the majority of the Israeli public believes that Binyamin Netanyahu cannot continue as prime minister.

From The Times Of Israel, according to an Israeli TV station, some leaders in the Likud party are working to oust Netanyahu.

From The Jerusalem Post, thousands of people flock to Hebron, West Bank to spend the Sabbath commemorating the purchase by Abraham of the Cave of the Patriarchs.

From YNetNews, the Blue and White party calls for Netanyahu to resign from all his ministerial posts.

From the Egypt Independent, the Egyptian endowments ministry dismisses nine Islamic preachers over alleged links to a terrorist group.

From Egypt Today, Egypt launches its first communication satellite.

From StepFeed, the Egyptian parliament rejects a public decency law.

From The New Arab, Iraqis stage protests in Baghdad, Karbala, Basra, Dhi Qar and Qadissiya.

From Radio Farda, Friday prayer imams urge the Iranian government to keep the Internet closed.

From IranWire, in response to the murders committed by the Iranian government, the country's grand ayatollahs adopt a Sergeant Schultz policy.

From Dawn, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan blames inflation on his predecessors.

From The Express Tribune, according to Imran, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's body language betrayed his illness.

From Pakistan Today, according to his personal physician, Nawaz may take a few months to recover.

From Khaama Press, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, and central Asian countries will reduce their barriers to trade and transport.

From The Hans India, businesses in Kashmir shut down for the third straight day.

From the Hindustan Times, in the Alwar district in the state of Rajasthan, Muslim police are told to shave their beards, but the order is withdrawn a day later.

From ANI, India and China will issue commemorative coins and stamps to mark the 70th anniversary of their diplomatic ties.

From India Today, in the Indian state of Manipur, two policemen are injured by a grenade explosion.

From the Daily Mirror, envoys from the U.S., Japan and Bangladesh meet Sri Lanka's new president.

From the Colombo Page, Edinburgh University will return nine human skulls to the Vedda people of Sri Lanka.  (The Vedda are thought to be the earliest inhabitants of Sri Lanka.)

From Allah's Willing Executioners, an asylum seeker breaks bottles of liquor in a store in Nordhausen, Germany.

From Coconuts Jakarta, a South Korean bakery in Indonesia with a French name is under fire for refusing to print non-Islamic messages on a cake.

From The Jakarta Post, two Indonesian runners are given bonuses for breaking records.

From The Straits Times, the chief of Hong Kong's police urges protesters to leave the campus of Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

From the Borneo Post, according to the police chief of the Malaysian state of Sabah, police will not arbitrarily check cell phones.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia's prime minister warns Malaysians against choosing the wrong leader, using a certain Austrian who moved to Germany as an example.

From The Mainichi, the last Japanese citizen to be evacuated from the Pacific island of Bougainville during a war in 1987 returns to witness an independence referendum.

And from Gatestone Institute, Sweden pays the price for migration.

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