As March Fourth marches toward evening, here are some more things marching forth:
From Morocco World News, Morocco and the U.S. sign a $240 million military agreement.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish officials claim that Greek forces killed a migrant who was trying to cross the border into Greece.
From Turkish Minute, a court in Ankara, Turkey sentences a comedian to five years in prison for alleged Gülen links.
From Rûdaw, Turkish parliamentcritters try to settle things the old fashioned way. (I couldn't find this story in the two Turkish sources just above.)
From In-Cyprus, according to a Cypriot official, police have the duty to protect Cyprus's borders.
From The Syrian Observer, the Syrian army shoots down a Turkish drone.
From Arutz Sheva, a U.S.-Israel joint military exercise is cancelled due to concerns about the coronavirus.
From The Times Of Israel, a U.S. Defense Department contractor is accused of passing information to a Lebanese national who has ties to Hezbollah.
From The Jerusalem Post, up to 100,000 Israelis could be in quarantine or home isolation.
From YNetNews, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu pushes back against a bill that could ban him from being prime minister.
From the Egypt Independent, Egypt bans Qataris from entering due to the coronavirus.
From Egypt Today, a video reveals terrorists conscripting African workers in Libya.
From StepFeed, the similarities between MERS in Saudi Arabia and the new coronavirus in China.
From The New Arab, U.S. congresscritters take on the Trump administration to declassify a report on the killing of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
From Radio Farda, large swarms of locusts invade southern Iran.
From IranWire, a man is arrested after making and posting a video of bodies in a morgue in Qom, Iran.
From Dawn, the Pakistani Senate passes a bill which would increase the penalties for certain crimes against children.
From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani province of Sindh seeks federal action against fake coronavirus reports.
From Pakistan Today, Pakistan hopes that the U.S.-Taliban deal will secure peace.
From Khaama Press, "what is happening in Afghanistan?"
From The Hans India, a special police officer and a civilian are killed in an attack by militants in Jammu and Kashmir.
From the Hindustan Times, a mistake made on the voter ID of a man in the Indian state of West Bengal has him barking mad.
From ANI, from 2014 to 2019, 18,999 people from neighboring countries were granted Indian citizenship.
From India Today, the Indian state of Rajasthan step up its measures to combat the coronavirus after 17 tourists from Italy test positive.
From the Dhaka Tribune, an endangered pangolin is rescued in Habiganj, Bangladesh.
From the Daily Mirror, the Sri Lankan health ministry decides to use the Hendala Leprosy Hospital to quarantine people who possibly have the coronavirus.
From the Colombo Page, two ships from Russia's Baltic Fleet arrive in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
From Gatestone Institute, who is the new head of Iran's Quds Force?
From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia will test more people for the coronavirus.
From The Straits Times, two more cases of the coronavirus are reported in Singapore.
From the Borneo Post, Malaysian police start 10 investigations of alleged insults to their king on social media.
From Free Malaysia Today, the Malaysian state of Sarawak denies entry to people who have travelled to South Korea, Italy, Iran, China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
And from The Mainichi, a Tweet from the mayor of Kumamoto, Japan saying "corona, you suck!" gets garners numerous likes and Retweets.
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