Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Wednesday Whatnot - Part 2

As a cold Wednesday hangs around, here are some more things going on:

From Morocco World News, Internet users in Morocco reportedly enjoy "partial freedom".

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, Germany and the Netherlands are ready to take back ISIS terrorists.

From Turkish Minute, a Turkish pro-government outlet calls a U.S. journalist an "agent for the Gülen movement", and thus a terrorist.

From In-Cyprus, Greece calls for an "urgent resolution" to the situation in Cyprus.

From The Syrian Observer, rebels kill three Syrian government troops in the province of Lattakia.

From Arutz Sheva, Israel's Blue and White Party has an internal disagreement over the proposed unity government.

From The Times Of Israel, was assassinating Islamic Jihad leader Abu al-Ata worth it?

From The Jerusalem Post, the Egyptian government and the U.N. work to stop the "IDF-Islamic Jihad" violence.  (I put quotes around "IDF-Islamic Jihad", because Islamic Jihad is not merely attacking the IDF, but the country of Israel including its civilian population.  Does anyone believe that those rockets are aimed only at IDF bases?)

From YNetNews, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu praises the people operating Iron Dome, and warns Islamic Jihad.

From the Egypt Independent, an Egyptian prosecutor dismisses a murder charge against a teenage girl who killed a rapist in self-defense.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will attend an anti-ISIS coalition meeting in the U.S.

From StepFeed, Saudi Arabia allows women to become police officers.

From The New Arab, protesters in Lebanon reach the palace of the president, instead of going "to the moon" like he told them to.

From Radio Farda, Iran's judiciary arrests some of its own members on charges of corruption.

From IranWire, Iran's government censors the Internet and sells software that can access blocked websites.

From Dawn, the Pakistani government gives former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif "one-time" permission to travel abroad for medical treatment.

From The Express Tribune, Nawaz's party rejects the government's "conditional permission" offered to him.

From Pakistan Today, the leader of Nawaz's party calls an "important" meeting.

From Khaama Press, 121 ISIS terrorists and their families surrender to Afghan forces in the province of Nangarhar.

From The Hans India, two Bangladeshis illegally in India are arrested at the Visakhapatnam railway station.

From the Hindustan Times, a "fake letter" ascribed to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi circulates among the Bangladeshi media.

From ANI, the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-2 sends new pictures of the lunar surface.

From India Today, India gets $43 million from the Green Climate Fund.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka's Election Commission is reportedly "apathetic" to any candidates having dual citizenship.

From the Colombo Page, the Commonwealth Observer Group starts observing Sri Lanka's elections.

From Swarajya, four people, including an imam, are arrested after an explosion reveals that explosives were hidden in a mosque in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

From The Jakarta Post, a 24-year-old man is identified as the suicide bomber who blew himself up at a police station in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia.

From The Straits Times, due to protesters blocking roads and clashing with police, schools in Hong Kong will be closed tomorrow.

From the Borneo Post, the names of 348,098 dead voters are removed from the electoral rolls in Malaysia.  (If Malaysia is allowed to do this, the U.S. doing the same thing should also be OK, shouldn't it?)

From Free Malaysia Today, fugitive Malaysian businessman Low Taek Jho is reportedly seen in India.

From The Mainichi, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 leaves the asteroid Ryugu and heads for earth.

And from Gatestone Institute, the 4,006 Palestinians whom European have not heard of.

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