Sunday, January 12, 2020

Sunday Stories - Part 1

Now that I'm back, here on a mild and clear Sunday are some things going on:

From National Review, what was the impeachment for?

From Townhall, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) can't easily explain why she's confident in the House's impeachment case.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Democrats think that Pelosi's holding the impeachment articles is a "failed strategy".

From the Washington Examiner, the latest Democrat debate stage has more billionaires than black people.

From The Federalist, the nation's top spy court picks a FISA abuse denier to deal with FISA abuse.

From American Thinker, Democrats are not happy that Iran is not following their script.

From LifeZette, President Trump warns Iran the the U.S. is watching how they treat their protesters.

From NewsBusters, national security adviser Robert O'Brien schools NBC host Chuck Todd on the threat from Iran.

From Canada Free Press, many Americans believe that Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.

From CBC News, the Pickering nuclear power plant has a false alarm.

From Global News, a Canadian military commander explains how troops are responding to escalation in Iraq.

From TeleSUR, self-proclaimed interim Venezuelan president announces plans to take over TeleSUR's TV signal.

From The Mainichi, a Japanese university and 20 companies team up to develop a new type of rechargeable battery.

From the Borneo Post, a strain of the influenza virus in Malaysia is neither new nor linked to an outbreak in China.

From Free Malaysia Today, a principal accused of sexually grooming a student in Kulai, Malaysia has been removed from the school.

From The Straits Times, China will not change its position on Taiwan, after Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen easily wins re-election.

From The Jakarta Post, a female eighth-grader is expelled from an Islamic junior high school for texting a male peer.

From the Daily Mirror, the remains of three Sri Lankan university students who died in an apartment fire in Baku, Azerbaijan will be repatriated.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka considers using drones to combat dengue fever.

From the Dhaka Tribune, the Bangladeshi government is concerned about Bangladeshis being killed by India's border guards.

From The Hans India, a magnitude-5.3 earthquake strikes in the Indian territory of Ladakh.

From the Hindustan Times, a senior officer in the Jammu and Kashmir police force is suspected of working with terrorists.

From ANI, an Indian light combat aircraft LCA MK1 successfully makes a ski-jump takeoff from the carrier INS Vikramaditya.

From India Today, police have to defend themselves at a rally in support of the Citizenship Act.

From Khaama Press, the telecom sector contributes a large amount of money to Afghanistan's national budget.

From Dawn, Pakistan's minister for information technology resigns.

From The Express Tribune, the chief minister of the Pakistani province of Sindh bans the destruction of katcha houses.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani Foreign Minister Qureshi meets with Iranian President Rouhani.

From Radio Farda, protests spread around Iran.

From IranWire, Iranian protesters call Suleymani a murderer.

From StepFeed and the "you can't make this up" department, a brand of chocolate bar in Lebanon comes in two genders.

From The New Arab, rockets hit an Iraqi military base which houses U.S. troops.

From Rûdaw, Iraq's interior minister order the investigation of the killing of two journalists covering anti-government protests.

From Hürriyet Daily News, U.N. aid to Syria will continue to through two border crossings with Turkey.

From In-Cyprus, some dam things are going on in Cyprus.

From Arutz Sheva, IDF fighter jets in southern Israel are damaged by floods.

From The Times Of Israel, an upgraded Iron Dome missile defense system scores 100 percent in interception trials.

From The Jerusalem Post, hearings on Prime Minister Netanyahu's immunity request might provide some entertainment.

From YNetNews, more on the Netanyahu immunity hearings.

From the Egypt Independent, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi meets with European Council President Charles Michel.

From Egypt Today, Ethiopia asks South Africa to mediate in its dam talks with Egypt and Sudan.

From Morocco World News, according to Minister of Energy and Mining Aziz Rebbah, Morocco can be a "global green hydrogen supplier".

From CNN, over a dozen Saudi Arabian servicemen will be expelled from the U.S.

From the Daily Mail, a Bangladeshi folk singer is arrested for alleged anti-Islam comments.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From The Telegraph, a Muslim man in Garhwa, India who died of natural causes is denied burial in the local graveyard.  (This website is based in India and should be not confused with the U.K. site having the same name.)

From Gatestone Institute, the Pontian Greeks and other Christians who were forced to convert to Islam in the Ottoman Empire.

From The Stream, "is the NFL discriminating against black coaches?"

From Fox News, a New York man is charged with smuggling rare and endangered African cats.

From the New York Post, firefighters in Australia may have finally turned the tide on the country's brushfires.

From TMZ Sports, New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman is arrested for allegedly jumping on a car.  (via Twitchy)

From BizPac Review, a Florida man is sentenced to 90 days in jail for assaulting a Trump supporter wearing a MAGA hat, and is ordered to pay him for a new MAGA hat.  (via The Blaze)

And from The Peedmont, Virginia officials recommend telling your family that you love them before entering the Bryan Park Interchange between Interstates 64 and 95.

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