Sunday, January 26, 2020

Sunday Stuff - Part 2

As a cool cloudy Sunday heads toward evening, here are some more things going on:

From Morocco World NewsMoroccan athlete Hicham Laqouahi wins the Marrakech Marathon in record time.

From Hürriyet Daily News, the death toll from the earthquake in eastern Turkey rises to 36.

From Rûdaw, according to Iraq's High Commission for Human Rights, 12 Iraqi protesters have been killed in two days.

From In-Cyprus, BirdLife Cyprus is concerned about the deaths of more than 20 flamingos at the Lanarca salt lake.

From Arutz Sheva, according to Defense Minister Naftali Bennett, Israel will not surrender "even a centimeter of land".

From The Times Of Israel, a balloon laden with explosives is found hanging from a tree in Sderot, Israel.

From The Jerusalem Post, does Israel know what it wants from the "deal of the century" proposed by U.S. President Trump?

From YNetNews, two people with coronavirus symptoms are admitted to hospitals in Israel.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt's first integrated fuel and electric car charging station opens in the city of Port Said.

From Egypt Today, according to Egypt's ministry of agriculture, reports of locust swarms have been greatly exaggerated.

From StepFeed, offensive Arab jokes that are only used on women.

From The New Arab, rockets reportedly hit near the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.

From Radio Farda, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif again rejects bilaterial talks with the U.S.

From Dawn, no coronavirus infection has so far been reported among Pakistanis in China.

From The Express Tribune, the governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa removes three members of the province's cabinet for allegedly attempting to remove their chief minister.

From Pakistan Today, according to a Prime Minister's aide, no coronavirus case has been found in Pakistan.

From Khaama Press, Afghan forces send 51 Taliban terrorists to their virgins.

From The Hans India, Hindus and Muslims tie rakhis at a march against the Citizenship Act.

From the Hindustan Times, Indians protesting against the Citizenship Act in the state of Kerala form a 620-kilometer human chain.

From ANI, the United Liberation Front of Assam-Independent claims responsibility for a series of bomb attacks.

From India Today, India tells the E.U. Parliament that the Citizenship Act is an internal matter.

From the Dhaka Tribune, members of Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion rescue 13 Rohingya women from human traffickers and arrest two of the traffickers.

From the Daily Mirror, U.S. envoy Alice Wells highlights the values shared with Sri Lanka.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan students in Wuhan, China will be returned home at government expense.

From Yahoo News, Chinese Uighurs in Saudi Arabia face an "impossible choice".

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesians in Wuhan, China want to come home.

From The Straits Times, according to Malaysian police, a Singaporean man died in Malaysia from a heart attack, not from the coronavirus.

From the Borneo Post, be careful where you get your information on the corona virus, says the Malaysian Medical Association.

From Free Malaysia Today, according to Malaysia's deputy home minister, some Malaysian terrorists are working with the Philippine terror group Abu Sayyaf.

From The Mainichi, Japan Railway turns to artificial intelligence to deal with snow.

And from Gatestone Institutethe media pay more attention to cruelty to animals than to the beheading of Christians.

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