Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Wednesday Links - Part 2

As a cloudy Wednesday slips into evening, here are some more things going on:

From Morocco World News, Morocco plans to build a second airport near the city of Marrakech.  (I have a feeling that Graham Nash approves.)

From Hürriyet Daily News, after a ruling by Turkey's Constitutional Court, the country will lift its ban on Wikipedia.

From Turkish Minute, Turks were the highest-spending tourists in the Greek regions of Thrace and East Macedonia during three quarters of 2019.

From Rûdaw, a Yezidi militia commander is killed by an airstrike in Iraqi Kurdistan.

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus's Cabinet approves a plan on energy and climate change.

From The Syrian Observer, President Bashir al-Assad gives the late terrorist leader Suleymani Syria's highest military honor.

From Arutz Sheva, several Israeli right-wing parties agree to a joint run.

From The Times Of Israel, in response to the latest rocket attack, the Israeli Air Force targets Hamas facilities in Gaza.

From The Jerusalem Post, the Palestinian Authority is "deeply concerned" about a truce deal between Hamas and Israel.

From YNetNews, an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor who has won 14 lotteries, who fled Israel 18 years ago, is set to return.

From the Egypt Independent, Coptic Pope Tawadros II opens the Cathedral of Abu Fam in Sohag, Egypt.

From Egpyt Today, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi inaugurates the Berenice International Airport.

From StepFeed, an Egyptian group on Facebook is accused of destroying marriages.

From The New Arab, 37 people are injured as protesters in Lebanon attack banks.

From Radio Farda, Iranian security forces prevent students is Tehran from continuing their protests.

From IranWire, Iranian intelligence agents harass the families of the victims of the crash of Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752.

From Dawn, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan visits people in Azad Jammu and Kashmir injured by recent avalanches.  (The word azad means "free" and is used by Pakistan to refer to the part of Jammu and Kashmir under its control.)

From The Express Tribune, the Lahore High Court tells the Pakistani government to explain its delay in deciding Maryam Nawaz's request to remove her name from the country's no-fly list.

From Pakistan Today, a Pakistani Senate committee raises objections to a bill addressing sexual offenses against children.

From Khaama Press, a religious clerk in the Afghan province of Herat warns against allowing women to not wear the hijab.

From The Hans India, India's Supreme Court puts local elections in the state of Andhra Pradesh on hold.

From the Hindustan Times, three Indian states demand an enumeration of "Backward Classes" on the country's 2021 census.  (And Americans such as myself argue about whether a citizenship question should be included in our census.)

From ANI, ministers from 12 countries meet with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

From India Today, the interrogation of Hizbul terrorists reveals a terror funding network in Kashmir.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion arrests three men for, among other charges, allegedly impersonating members of the Rapid Action Battalion.

From the Daily Mirror, starting today, bus drivers and conductors are not allowed to play "jarring" music in their vehicles.

From Colombo Page, Sri Lanka's ministry of defense announces a grace period for handing over illegal weapons.

From Michael Smith News, according to an Iranian spokesman, the recently-arrested ambassador from the U.K. "must be chopped into pieces".

From Gatestone Institute, President Erdoğan's campaign to make Turkey more Islamic is failing.

From The Jakarta Post, President Joko Widodo wants all vehicles in Indonesia's new capital to be electric and autonomous.

From The Straits Times, Hong Kong protesters seek to reward businesses that support their cause.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysian police warn that they will revoke permits for firearms if they are used for poaching.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia's Wildlife and National Parks Department arrested 82 illegal hunters last year.

And from The Mainchi, Russian authorities seize a Japanese fishing boat off the island of Hokkaido.

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