Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Tuesday Tidings - Part 2

As a cool cloudy Tuesday hangs around, here are some more things going on:

From Morocco World News, according to an E.U. official, Morocco and Spain will resolve their maritime border issue together.

From Hürriyet Daily News, a magnitude-4.8 earthquake strikes in western Turkey.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey deports four French extremists.

From Rûdaw, the Peshmerga denies an Iraqi army unit entry into the town of Qara Hanjir in the province of Kirkuk.

From In-Cyprus, travel to and from Cyprus is on the rise.

From The Syrian Observer, according to Syria's foreign ministry, terrorists are working to make a chemical attack with support from Turkey.

From Arutz Sheva, U.S. President Trump's peace plan tries to bring the Palestinian Authority to the negotiating table, by removing its bargaining chips.

From The Times Of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu cheers Trump's plan and says that he will soon start the process of annexing the Jordan Valley.

From The Jerusalem Post, the Trump peace plan comes with a map.

From YNetNewsPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejects Trump's plan with "a thousand no's".

From the Egypt Independent, the Egyptian parliament introduces amendments to Egypt's terrorism law.

From Egypt Today, a delegation from the Ethiopian Church visits the Coptic Museum in Cairo.

From StepFeed, no, Egypt will not inspect Chinese restaurants for the coronavirus.

From The New Arab, Trump unveils his peace plan.

From Radio Farda, according to a female Iranian chessmaster, the hijab is "limitation", not "protection".

From IranWire, an Iranian soldier who died in the war with Iraq is not recognized as a martyr because he was Baha'i.

From Dawn, 15 protesters are arrested outside a press club in Islamabad, including a political leader.

From The Express Tribune, suspected terrorists blow up a gas pipeline near the border between the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh.

From Pakistan Today, Prime Minister Imran Khan blames "profiteers" and "hoarders" for Pakistan's rising inflation.

From Khaama Press, Taliban terrorists storm a police station in the Afghan province of Baghlan and kill 11 policemen, possibly with insider help.

From The Hans India, due to the coronavirus, India starts preparing to evacuate its citizens from the Chinese province of Hubei.

From the Hindustan Times, according to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Citizenship Act was created to correct historic injustice.

From ANI, 633 people are monitored for the coronavirus in the Indian state of Kerala, with samples from six people being sent for testing.

From India Today, India's Border Security Force will be armed with an anti-drone system in the territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Petrobangla and Bapex sign memoranda of understanding with the Russian company Gazprom.

From the Daily Mirror, according to an Indian party leader, Hindus in Sri Lanka are not facing persecution like those in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka immediately cancels on-arrival visas for Chinese tourists.

From Michael Smith News, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refuses to answer U.S. President Trump's phone call and calls him some canine names.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a Muslim asylum seeker in Salzgitter, Germany allegedly kills his sister's friend for being Christian.

From the Morning Star, about 50 people are killed in Burkina Faso in what is believed to be a jihadist attack.

From The Jakarta Post, according to an Indonesian minister, there is "no need" to evacuate Indonesians from the Chinese province of Hubei.

From The Straits Times, Taiwan reports its first case of domestic transmission of the coronavirus.

From the Borneo Post, according to Parti Amanah Negara leader Mohamad Sabu, Malay Muslims should stop calling each other "infidel".

From Free Malaysia Today, according to police in the Malaysian state of Sabah, the kidnappers of five Indonesians have not made any ransom demand.

From The Mainichi, musician/astrophysicist Brian May visits Japan's Kwasan Observatory.

And from Gatestone Institute, Germany's efforts to combat anti-Semitism have become selective.

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