Saturday, March 28, 2020

Saturday Links - Part 2

As a cool cloudy Saturday hangs around, here are some more things going on:

From Morocco World News, Morocco allows businesses to defer their tax payments.

From Hürriyet Daily News, a Turkish musician records the acoustics of the Hagia Sofia.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey bans international flights and restricts intercity travel due to the coronavirus.

From RûdawIraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr blames the coronavirus on gay marriage.

From In-Cyprus, all doctors, nurses and patients at Larnaca General hospital test negative for the coronavirus.

From Arutz Sheva, Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel Resilience leader Benny Gantz, and fellow knessetcritter Gabi Ashkenazi hold talks to discuss a unity government for Israel.

From The Times Of Israel, is Gantz risking harming the democracy that he promised to save?

From The Jerusalem Post, Netanyahu orders tighter restrictions as the number of Israeli coronavirus cases rises to 3,619.

From YNetNews, armed IDF personnel will help enforce the coronavirus restrictions.

From the Egypt Indepedent, EgyptAir brings hundreds of Egyptians back from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman.

From Egypt Today, Egypt closes down its Mediterranean shores in the coastal cities of Alexandria and Damietta.

From StepFeed, how are Muslims preparing for Ramadan under quarantine?

From The New Arab, Saudi Arabia arrests four people for allegedly saying that the coronavirus is a "punishment from Allah".

From the Saudi Gazette, a drone fitted with thermal cameras monitors the temperatures of market-goers at a livestock market in Buraidah, Saudi Arabia.

From Radio Farda, the 10 regional headquarters of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps is given the tasks of asymmetrical warfare and crushing dissent.

From Dawn, police in Karachi, Pakistan detain 38 prayer leaders for allegedly violating the Sindh provincial government's coronavirus restrictions.

From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa announces an economic relief package.

From Pakistan Today, the Pakistani army sets up 182 quarantine facilities.

From Khaama Press, new details emergy about the Indian man who attacked the Sikh temple in Kabul, Afghanistan.

From The Hans India, ICMR kits are being flown from Delhi to other cities in India.

From the Hindustan Times, monetary contributions pour into India.

From ANI, the Indian power company NHPC airlifts 2.6 metric tons of medical supplies from Delhi to Imphal.

From India Today, the Indian district of Ghaziabad, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, presses 450 buses into service to transport migrants from the state of Bihar.

From the Dhaka Tribune, protecting all of Bangladesh's industries.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka will get help against the coronavirus from a robot.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka reports its first death from the coronavirus.

From Maldives Insider, the Maldivian airline Villa Air Flyne will suspend its operations due to the coronavirus.

From the Kashmir Monitor, unlike in other Muslim countries, worshipers gather in mosques in Pakistan.

From The Jakarta Post, the Indonesian government faces pressure to impose a lockdown as the country's coronavirus death toll surpasses 100.

From The Straits Times, Singapore reports 70 more coronavirus cases, 41 of them imported.

From the Borneo Post, nearly 400 people are arrested for allegedly violating Malaysia's Movement Control Order.

From Free Malaysia Today, according to Agriculture Minister Ronald Kiandee, Malaysia has enough rice.

From The Mainichi, Tokyo closes its cherry blossom parks due to the coronavirus.

And from Gatestone Institute, the West "needs to wake up" to the Chinese government's duplicity.

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