Monday, March 30, 2020

Monday Mania - Part 2

As a sunny Monday turns cloudy but stays mild, here are some more things going on:

From The Mainichi, Japan will ban entry from the U.S., China, South Korea and most of Europe.

From the Borneo Post, 828 people have been arrested for violating Malaysia's Movement Control Order.

From Free Malaysia Today, 91 more people from Malaysia recover from the coronavirus in one day, but two others die from it.

From The Straits Times, Singapore applauds its frontline fighters against the coronavirus.

From The Jakarta Post, Jakarta awaits the Indonesian government's legal basis for putting the city under quarantine.

From Maldives Insider, the U.K. repatriates most of its citizens who had been in the Maldive Islands.

From the Daily Mirror, a look at beefed up security enforcing the coronavirus curfew in Sri Lanka.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka's curfew will continue in six districts but will be lifted in the rest of country.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion arrests a suspected member of Ansar-al-Islam.

From The Hans India, drones are used to sanitize Bengaluru, India.

From the Hindustan Times, a tycoon in the Indian state of Kerala donates a house for use as a coronavirus isolation ward.

From ANI, officials of Delhi's government make efforts to provide food and accommodations to victims of a riot in the city.

From India Today, India seeks to obtain ventilators and personal protection kits from China, but not coronavirus testing kits.

From NDTV, Indian authorities connect a local outbreak of the coronavirus to a gathering at a mosque in Delhi.

From Khaama Press, the Afghan government will meet with a Taliban delegation to discuss the release of prisoners.

From Dawn, Pakistan's Supreme Court suspends decisions by high courts regarding the release of prisoners under trial due to the coronavirus.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan's federal government decides to open the country's roads.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan calls for unity as the country's number of coronavirus cases nears 1,800.

From Radio Farda, how Supreme Leader Khamenei's office makes billions from Iran's state TV.

From StepFeed, how has the UAE been dealing with the coronavirus?

From The New Arab, a team of 20 Somali doctors goes to Italy to help the fight against the coronavirus.  (Italy once colonized most of modern Somalia.  The U.K. colonized the rest.)

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabian King Salman orders that coronavirus treatment is available for everyone, free of charge, even for visitors who have overstayed their visas.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Erdoğan launches a national campaign against the coronavirus.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey extends the quarantine of 5,000 people who returned from an Umrah pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabian.

From Rûdaw, the U.S. deploys Patriot air defense batteries to Iraq.

From In-Cyprus, all of Cyprus's new coronavirus measures.

From The Syrian Observer, according to an opposition group, the Syrian government might leave prisoners to die if the coronavirus spreads into jails.

From Arutz Sheva, Israel bans gatherings of more than two people and outdoor prayers.

From The Times Of Israel, can Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Blue and White leader Benny Gantz form a "win-win coalition" for Israel?

From The Jerusalem Post, Netanyahu advises the Israeli public to celebrate Passover, Easter and Ramadan alone.

From YNetNews, Qatari money arrives in the Gaza Strip amid the coronavirus.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt extends the closure of its museums and archaeological sites and the suspension of hotel activities until April 15th.

From Egypt Today, Sudan's prime minister plans to visit Egypt and Ethiopia to restart the dam talks.

From Morocco World News, Moroccan authorities find hundreds of price and quality violations at sales outlets.

From Michael Smith, a World Health Organisation map omits Israel.

From the Daily Mail, Saudi Arabia is reportedly using mobile phone data to keep track of the movements of its citizens in the U.S.

From Palestinian Media Watch, the money that the Palestinian Authority pays terrorists could buy a lot of ventilators and coronavirus test kits.

And from Gatestone Institute, how left-wing ideology led to Spain's current coronavirus catastrophe.

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