Monday, November 11, 2019

Links For Veterans Day - Part 2

As Veterans Day continues, here are some more things going on:

From Morocco World News, the group Polisario releases three Sahrawi activists.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey starts repatriating captured foreign ISIS fighters.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey's Radio and Television Supreme Council decides to censor ice cream ads.

From Rûdaw, a curfew on the Internet continues in Iraq.

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus's Central Prison suffers from overcrowding.

From The Syrian Observer, an IED wounds four Syrian government troops in the province of Suweida.

From Arutz Sheva, the Israeli party Likud proposes that in a unity government, Binyamin Netanyahu will remain prime minister for one year.

From The Times Of Israel, according to Netanyahu, there has never been a "real reconciliation" between Israel and Jordan.

From The Jerusalem Post, Jordanian King Abdullah II tours Naharayim, the enclave which is no longer leased to Israel.

From YNetNews, a Russian submarine is spotted in Israeli waters.

From Egypt Independent, unidentified gunmen attack a checkpoint near the Egyptian village of Kafr al-Hasafa.

From Egypt Today, the Arab Organization for Industrialization launches a smart electric bus system.

From StepFeed, why can't women be included in the Lebanese national anthem?

From The New Arab, the Lebanese "Ponzi-scheme" economy is broken.

From Radio Farda, protests continue in the oil-rich Iranian province of Khuzestan.

From IranWire, colleagues of a jailed French-Iranian journalist oppose an academic boycott.

From Dawn, according to Pakistan's National Security Bureau, the country's federal government has the authority to decide if former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is removed from its no-fly list.

From The Express Tribune, Nawaz delays his trip to London for medical treatment due to government foot-dragging.

From Pakistan Today, according to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, the birth of the prophet Mohammed "ended injustice".  (The fact that there's injustice going on today doesn't seem have occurred to the prime minister or his speech writer.)

From Khaama Press, in the Afghan province of Paktiya, four Pakistani terrorists experience premature detonation.

From The Hans India, Indian security forces kill two terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir.

From the Hindustan Times, how the Indian state of West Bengal is turning around from its human trafficking problem.

From ANI, a Remembrance Day ceremony is held in Digboi, Assam, India for soldiers who died in World War II.

From India Today, the air quality in Delhi, India approaches the "severe" level again.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka's parliament passes a law against offenses related to sports.

From the Colombo Page, the Human Rights Council of Sri Lanka calls for the Election Commission to protect the voting rights of Bhikkhunis.  (Bhikkhunis are female Buddhist monks.)

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia's immigration office denies being ordered to prevent Muslim cleric Habib Rizieq Shihab from returning to the country.

From The Straits Times, "the Hong Kong police gunshot that unleashed a day of mayhem".

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia's transport ministry is urged to issue foreigners permits to ride and rent large motorbikes.

From Free Malaysia Today, the U.S. reportedly downgrades Malaysia's air safety rating.

From The Mainichi, six people, including four children, are injured when a car hits them at a pedestrian crossing in Hachioji, Japan.

And from Gatestone Institute, Turkey's hate speech against Christians and Jews.

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