Monday, February 24, 2020

More Monday Mania

As a mild but manic Monday hangs around, here are some more things going on:

From The Mainichi, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum exhibits color footage taken just after the atomic bomb attack at the end of World War II.

From the Borneo Post, two more patients in Malaysia recover from the coronavirus.

From Free Malaysia Today, all 26 Malaysian ministerial appointments are revoked.

From The Straits Times, Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Mahathir Mohamad resigns and is made caretaker prime minister.

From the Jakarta Post, three patients in Bandung, Indonesia test negative for the coronavirus.

From the Daily Mirror, contrary to earlier reports, the Archbishop of Colombo is satisfied with the Presidential Commission investigating the Easter Sunday terror attacks.

From the Colombo Page, to help deal with traffic congestion in Colombo, the police get help from the military police.

From the Dhaka Tribune, 59 women were raped or sexually harassed on Bangladeshi public transportation in 2019.

From The Hans India, speaking in India, U.S. President Trump talks about a "fantastic" trade deal in the works.

From the Hindustan Times, Mr. and Mrs. Trump visit the Taj Mahal.

From ANI, Ivanka Trump is also impressed by the Taj Mahal.

From India Today, India's National Investigative Agency searches 25 locations in the states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in cases related to ISIS.

From Khaama Press, Afghanistan confirms its first case of coronavirus infection in the province of Herat.

From Dawn, Pakistan's newly appointed attorney general recuses himself from a case against a Supreme Court justice.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan International Airlines suspends flights to China and Japan due to the coronavirus outbreak.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan's attorney general seeks automony from the country's law ministry.

From Radio Farda, police in Tehran confiscate 500,000 facemasks hoarded by an Iranian man and his Chinese wife.

From IranWire, according to the Iranian parliamentary representative from Qom, 50 people have died from the coronavirus in that province.

From The New Arab, at U.N. talks in Geneva, Switzerland, warring factions in Libya agree to a formal ceasefire.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish security forces arrest five terrorists in northern Syria.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey might close the Bosphorus to Russian warships transporting arms to the Syrian government.

From Rûdaw, Turkey sets up more observation posts in and deploys more troops to the Syrian region of Idlib.

From In-Cyprus, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades sends out letters to E.U. states and members of the U.N. Security Council about the fenced-off town of Varosha.

From The Syrian Observer, the Syrian army and Syrian Democratic Forces repulse an attack by Turkish-backed militants in northeastern Syria.

From Arutz Sheva, Israel closes all of its border crossings with Gaza.

From The Times Of Israel, Israel issues a travel advisory for Italy, due to the coronavirus.

From The Jerusalem Post, despite an announced ceasefire, the Gaza-based group Islamic Jihad launches rockets into Israel.

From YNetNews, according to government source, "fake news" about the coronavirus could jeopardize Israel's upcoming elections.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt's immigration minister visits a museum in Chicago owned by an Egyptian expatriate.

From Egypt Today, Egypt's House of Representatives passes amendments to the country's "terror lists" bill.

From Morocco World News, Morocco's sales of phosphate from the Western Sahara decreased by 45 percent from 2018 to 2019.

From Palestinian Media Watch, PMW tells UNICEF to stop ignoring the Palestinian Authority's recruitment of children to be soldiers and terrorists.

From Gatestone Institute, how should the West respond to protesters in Iran?

From The Stream, how the religious right helped create today's increasingly secular America.

From the New York Post, the U.S. confirms 53 cases of coronavirus infection.

From Reason, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu appoints a committee to explore the legalization of marijuana.

From Fox News, Harvey Weinstein accuser Annabella Sciora calls her testimony "painful but necessary".

From WPVI-TV, in Durham, North Carolina, you can visit a tuba museum.

And from The Babylon Bee, a time traveler from America's socialist future comes back to the present and begs for food.

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