Wednesday Links - Part 2

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

From Morocco World News, the E.U. grants Morocco €101.7 million to fight human trafficking and irregular migration.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Turkey will not back out of the S-400 missile defense systems it acquired from Russia.

From Turkish Minute, six migrants reportedly freeze to death on the Greece-Turkey border.

From Rûdaw, a Peshmerga commander turned Zartik Mountain in Iraq green.

From In-Cyprus, according to the Cypriot defense minister, the Cypriot army has a drug problem.

From The Syrian Observer, Damascus University bans full-face veils.

From Arutz Sheva, Israel's 22nd Knesset is dissolved.

From The Times Of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will start his new campaign by visiting an anti-gay seminary.

From The Jerusalem Post, Hamas denies supporting Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in the U.K. election.

From YNetNews, thousands of people rally for a threatened Holocaust survivor in Milan, Italy.

From the Egypt Independent, a battered women's shelter is opened in Giza, Egypt.

From Egypt Today, according to President Abdel al-Sisi, Egypt fights terrorism in the Sinai and along its border with Libya.

From StepFeed, 15 effects of rainfall in Lebanon.

From The New Arab, why events in Algeria should be watched.

From Radio Farda, an eyewitness describes an attack against protesters in Mahshahr, Iran.

From IranWire, a map of where protesters have been murdered.

From Dawn, a violent protest by lawyers at a hospital in Lahore, Pakistan results in the deaths of three patients.

From The Express Tribune, Punjab Information Minister Fayyazul Hassan Chohan blames the Pakistani party PML-N for the Lahore hospital attack.

From Pakistan Today, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, in London for medical treatment, will travel to the U.S. for further treatment.

From Khaama Press, an attack by Taliban terrorists near the U.S. base in Bagram kills two people, injures 73, and destroys a clinic.

From The Hans India, the Andhra Pradesh state government proposes capital punishment for convicted rapists.

From the Hindustan Times, according to Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, the Citizenship Bill will not result in anyone harassing Muslims.

From ANI, an organization opposing the Citizenship Bill withdraws its strike against it.

From India Today, Congress party president Sonia Gandhi calls the passage of the Citizenship Bill a "dark day" in the constitutional history of India.

From the Daily Mirror, two people are arrested at the Bandaranaike International Airport while allegedly attempting to smuggle 10 kilograms of gold.

From the Colombo Page, two people in Kadawatha, Sri Lanka are arrested for allegedly assaulting journalists.

From XinhuaNet, four people are killed and six others injured when members of al-Shabab storm a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia.

From Amnesty International, at least 275 people have been killed by Boko Haram in northern Cameroon this year.

From CP24, four men are charged with mischief for allegedly defacing a memorial to the women killed in the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre.

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia's Constitutional Court rules that former graft convicts can run for regional office five years after they are released from prison.

From The Straits Times, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi denies that her country had genocidal intent against the Rohingya.

From the Borneo Post, according to Malaysia's climate change minister, a marine debris policy will be established to address plastic waste.

From Free Malaysia Today, a Chinese oil tanker managed by a Chinese company under U.S. sanctions refuses to undergo an inspection by Malaysian authorities.

From The Mainichi, Japan might pick a new site for deploying a developed missile defense system that was developed in the U.S.

And from Gatestone Institute, the murder of women in Turkey "reaches epidemic proportions".