Sunday, February 16, 2020

Sunday Stuff - Part 2

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

From The Mainichi, visiting the uninhabited island of Sarushima in Tokyo Bay.

From the Borneo Post, after quick action by the Malaysian government, fake news about the coronavirus has decreased.

From Free Malaysia Today, a coalition of student groups at Universiti Malaya criticizes the school's management over its handling of students from China.

From The Straits Times, China claims that its efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus are starting to work.

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesians evacuated from China are released from quarantine in Natuna.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka conveys its objection to the U.S. travel ban on Army Commander Shavendra Silva and asks for a review.

From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan Navy arrests 11 Indian fishermen for allegedly illegally fishing in Sri Lanka's waters.

From The Hans India, according to Prime Minister Modi, India's greatness lies in its spiritual tradition.

From the Hindustan Times, tourists at a government-run jungle safari in Raipur, India get close to tigers.

From ANI, in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, women carry a pregnant woman on a makeshift cart 30 kilometers to a hospital.

From India Today, policemen hold a dialogue with protesters in the Shaheen Bagh area of Delhi.

From Khaama Press, in the Afghan province of Kandahar, 25 IEDs are diffused and five Taliban terrorists are sent to their virgins.

From Dawn, for the first time ever, Pakistan wins the Kabaddi world championship, defeating India in the final match.  (Kabaddi is a team contact sport originating in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.)

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan starts it nationwide anti-polio drive tomorrow.

From Pakistan Today, five people die and dozens of others become unconscious from a "mysterious gas leak" in Karachi, Pakistan.

From Radio Farda, a magnitude-5.8 earthquake hits the Iranian island of Qeshm.

From IranWire, Iran's crisis management is horrible.

From StepFeed, seven times rappers used Arab phrases in their songs.  (The Queen song Bohemian Rhapsody used the Arabic word bismillah back in 1975.)

From The New Arab, people in the region of Darfur rejoice as Sudan's government agrees to sent former President Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court.

From Hürriyet Daily News, a street in Istanbul is renamed after a Japanese officer who saved 1,000 Turkish prisoners of war from being turned over to Greece just after World War I.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish prosecutors start investigating a reporter over her story about a Turkey's finance minister buying land near the route of the Kanal İstanbul project.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From Rûdaw, the "endless" fear of instant divorce from Islam's triple talaq.

From In-Cyprus, according to the mayor of Nicosia, Cyprus, work on the city's main square could be finished in three months.

From Arutz Sheva, according to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, a military operation in Gaza is a last resort.

From The Times Of Israel, Israeli right wing parties renew their pledge to back Netanyahu as prime minister.

From The Jerusalem Post, hundreds of people pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem for victims of the coronavirus and for an end to the outbreak.

From YNetNews, Netanyahu and his candidate for health minister Nir Barkat unveil proposed financial reforms.

From the Egypt IndependentEgyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry expects a final dam agreement next week.

From Egypt Today, Cairo's Tahrir Square will contain items from Egypt's long history.

From Morocco World News, the U.K. appoints its next ambassador to Morocco.

And from Gatestone Institute, the persecution of Christians during November, 2019.

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