Sunday, February 2, 2020

Links For Groundhog Day - Part 2

As Groundhog Day hangs around and many of us get ready to watch the Super Bowl, here are some more things going on:

From Morocco World News, Moroccan authorities arrest six suspects for allegedly organizing illegal irregular migration operations.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Albania thank Turkey for evacuating their citizens from Wuhan, China.

From Rûdaw, Basra, Iraq drowns in poverty while sitting "on an ocean of oil".

From In-Cyprus, a Chinese man residing in Cyprus tests negative for the coronavirus.

From Arutz Sheva, unknown armed men blow up part of a gas pipeline between Israel and Egypt.

From The Times Of Israel, the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company is found guilty of damaging coral reefs in Red Sea.

From The Jerusalem Post, "is Israel doing enough to protect itself from the coronavirus?"

From YNetNews, an agreement with Hamas is still a priority for Israel.

From the Egypt Independent, the Public Prosecution Office in Assiut, Egypt orders the detention of the doctor of a girl who died from genital mutilation.

From Egypt Today, due to concerns about the coronavirus, Egyptian importers delay signing deals to import garlic from China.

From StepFeed, eight misogynist Arab phrases that need to be eliminated.

From The New Arab, Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr urges his followers to clear protest camps.

From Radio Farda, France asks Iran to free two detained French citizens thought to be ill.

From Dawn, police in Karachi, Pakistan detain 33 members of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement who had gathered to plan an event commemorating the death of their leader.

From The Express Tribune, a previously unexploded bomb destroys a house and kills seven people in a remote area of Pakistan.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan is ready to diagnose the coronavirus.

From Khaama Press, U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad meets with Afghan leaders.

From The Hans India, a woman dies at a protest against the Citizenship Act.

From the Hindustan Times, a man enters the Raja Bhoj Airport in Bhopal, India, throws stones at a helicopter, and lies on the ground in front of an airplane.

From ANI, a patient who tested positive for the coronavirus is reportedly in stable condition at Thrissur Medical College in Thrissur, India.

From India Today, an Indian soldier is injured by firing from the Pakistani side of the Line Of Control in Kashmir.

From the Dhaka Tribune, five Chinese citizens who work at a coal mine are quarantined in Dinajpur, Bangladesh.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan security forces rehearse for the country's Independence Day celebrations.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankans who returned from Wuhan, China show no symptoms of the coronavirus.

From PM News, a little known Fulani group claims ownership of all land between the Sokoto River and the Atlantic Ocean.

From Channels TV, suspected jihadists kill about 20 people in Bani, Burkina Faso.

From Breitbart, French prosecutors drop a hate crime charge against a girl who criticized Islam online.

From the Mail Online, more on the Streatham attacker, who "was known to police".  (See Part 1 for other articles on this story from the U.K. media.)

From Gatestone Institute, persecution of Christians has become "a global catastrophe".

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia bans Chinese visitors from entering for 14 days.

From The Straits Times, a man from Wuhan dies from the coronavirus at a hospital in the Philippines, becoming the first such fatality outside China.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia Airlines offers a full refund for canceled flights to and from China.

From Free Malaysia Today, the Malaysian health ministry assures that the coronavirus won't turn anyone into a zombie.

And from The Mainichi, a company in Osaka ships items mistakenly left behind in Japan back to their respective owners.

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