As the rain hangs around on the last Sunday of 2019, here are some more things going on:
From Morocco World News, restoration of the old medina in Rabat has been done "the Moroccan way".
From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Turkish troops will stay at the observation posts in the Syrian region of Idlib.
From Rûdaw, Kurdish volunteers spread Christmas cheer at a camp for displaced persons in northern Syria.
From In-Cyprus, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Cyprus in January.
From Arutz Sheva, according to a poll, the Israeli Left and Right are tied with 56 Knesset seats for each side.
From The Times Of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu calls immunity a "cornerstone of democracy".
From The Jerusalem Post, Netanyahu promises that Israel will have "normal ties and peace deals with Arab countries".
From YNetNews, according to an opinion column, Netanyahu's win in the Likud primary "is a tenuous victory".
From the Egypt Independent, Egypt launches the "survival ships" initiative to combat illegal immigration.
From Egypt Today, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, about 300 militants have moved from Syria to Libya.
From The New Arab, Saudi Arabian authorities arrest over 200 people for alleged "immodesty" and another 88 for alleged harassment.
From Radio Farda, Iranian authorities arrest 14 leaders of an alleged "monarchist propaganda network".
From Dawn, terror attacks in Pakistan declined in 2019, but the challenge they present remains.
From The Express Tribune, according to Pakistani Foreign Minister Mehmood Qureshi, India is stepping up efforts to launch a false flag operation.
From Pakistan Today, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan directs the provincial governments of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to set up temporary shelters for the homeless.
From Khaama Press, Taliban fighters conduct an ambush on the house of a former jihadi leader.
From The Hans India, the Indian Army rescues 1,700 tourists stranded by snowfall in the state of Sikkim.
From the Hindustan Times, according to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, young people detest anarchy, chaos, instability and discrimination.
From ANI, a child trafficking racket is busted in the Indian state of Gujarat.
From India Today, the Congress Party and police in the state of Goa disagree as to whether drugs caused two tourists to die at the Sunburn Music Festival.
From the Dhaka Tribune, for the fourth time, a crude bomb explodes in the campus of Dhaka University.
From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka's minister of state warns that people who illegally use water face fines and imprisonment.
From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan Navy tries to educate fishing vessel owners about drug smuggling and human trafficking.
From WFTV, the truck bomb explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia killed a woman and injured her sister, both of whom were studying to become doctors.
From Palestinian Media Watch, a Palestinian leader calls Jesus the "first Islamic martyr". (I think that this would contradict the Islamic belief that Jesus did not die on the cross. If He didn't die, then He could not have become a martyr.)
From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia could send 31 athletes to the 2020 Olympics.
From The Straits Times, rain does not prevent over 1,000 people from rallying in Hong Kong.
From the Borneo Post, rapes involving underage victims are a cause for concern in the Malaysian state of Penang.
From Free Malaysia Today, customs officers foil an attempt to smuggle birds' nests out of Malaysia.
From The Mainichi, remote treatment helps people in the Japanese village of Ubuyama to quit smoking.
And from Gatestone Institute, being a Christian in Iran is a crime.
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