Sunday, March 1, 2020

Stories For The Beginning Of March - Part 1

As the third month of 2020 gets underway, here are some things going on:

From Townhall, the coronavirus sets off the stupidity virus.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the liberal elite does not know what Democratic voters want.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump did not call the coronavirus a "hoax".

From The Federalist, Senator Fake Cherokee's (D-MA) trail of fake tears is over.

From American Thinker, American already has its tired and poor.

From CNS News, former Vice President Biden "wins big" in the South Carolina Democratic primary.

From LifeZette, after finishing third in South Carolina, Tom Steyer drops out.

From NewsBusters, at CPAC, Trump lets Democrats and the media have it.

From Canada Free Press, blame for the coronavirus belongs with China, not to the American president.

From CBC News, Canadian government ministers and Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs reach a proposed agreement.

From Global News, parliamentcritter Cathay Wagantall (Conservative - Yorkton, Saskatechewan) proposes legislation to ban sex-selection abortions.

From CTV News, Wet'suwet'en who support the GasLink pipeline believe that their message is not being heard.

From TeleSUR, Argentinian President Alberto Fernández defends the electoral victory of ousted Bolivian President Evo Morales.

From The Mainichi, the last group of crew members leave a cruise ship that has been quarantined in Japan.

From the Borneo Post, new Malaysian Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is sworn in.

From Free Malaysia Today, a Malaysian military delegation is in the U.S. to learn about and test combat helicopters to be delived to Malaysia later this year.

From The Straits Times, Thailand reports its first death from the coronavirus.

From The Jakarta Post, floods threaten crops in the Indonesian province of West Java.

From the Daily Mirror, 22 university students are arrested for protesting in violation of a court order.

From the Colombo Page, according to Sri Lanka's election chief, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has the power to dissolve parliament at midnight tonight.  (Due to the time difference, by the time this post is published, midnight may have already come and gone over there.)

From the Dhaka Tribune, Hindus in Bangladesh start celebrating the Maha Chandi Yajna.

From The Hans India, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah arrives in Kolkata amid protests against the citizenship act.

From the Hindustan Times, 17 fishermen from the Indian state of Kerala are stranded in Iran and plead for help.

From ANI, police in Jammi and Kashmir arrest four terrorists.

From India Today, the closure of banks and ATMs due to recent violence affects businesses in Delhi.

From Khaama Press, Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani speaks after the U.S.-Taliban peace deal is signed.

From Dawn, the Pakistani province of Sindh decides to keep all schools closed until March 13th, to contain the coronavirus.

From The Express Tribune, the WHO praises Pakistan's efforts to deal with the coronavirus.  (The WHO should not be confused with The Who.)

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan closes its border checkpoint with Afghanistan at Chaman.

From Radio Farda, Iran buries Afghani and Pakistani fighters who were killed in Syria.

From IranWire, an Iranian filmmaker who is barred from leaving Iran wins an award at the Berlin Film Festival.

From StepFeed, nine Arabic phrase useful for expressing anger.

From The New Arab, Turkey downs two Syrian planes over the region of Idlib.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Turkey has launched a military operation against the Syrian regime.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish police briefly detain four journalists working for the Russian news agency Sputnik.  (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From Rûdaw, Iraqi Kurdistan's health ministry confirms the first deaths from the coronavirus in the region.

From In-Cyprus, the Cypriot government claims that there is no ulterior motive for closing four checkpoints on the Green Line.

From Arutz Sheva, a rabbi accuses Isreali Prime Minister Netanyahu of contempt for religious Zionism.

From The Times Of Israel, Israel's health ministry tells Israelis to not let the coronavirus from stopping them to vote.

From The Jerusalem Post, will the possible annexation of the Jordan Valley help Netanyahu win the upcoming election?

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt's minister of internation cooperation meets with U.S. congresscritters to discuss aid from the U.S.

From Egypt Today, Egypt slams Ethiopia for its "dam remarks".

From Morocco World News, Algeria's foreign minister states that his country will continue to challengee Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, are migrants attacking Greek police with teargas cannisters made in Turkey?  (The article links to a Greek language site which my protective software calls "high-risk".  Go there at your own risk.  But as far as I can tell, AWE has no such problem.)

From Breitbart, migrant landings in Italy so far this year greatly increase since last year.  (If you read Italian, read the story at Il Giornale.)

From Gatestone Institute, importing and supporting anti-Semitism.

From The Stream, the Christian faith is weird, so embrace it.

From WPVI-TV, the safe injection site in Philadelphia draws outrage.

From Fox News, with Super Tuesday looming, Democrat presidential candidates descend on Texas.

From Legal Insurrection, Senator Fake Cherokee offends supporters of Senator Socialism (I-VT).

From the New York Post, a federal court rules that the Trump administration's appointment of Ken Cuccinelli as acting head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is was illegal.

And from Twitchy, conservative journalist Byron York reports from the South Carolina Democratic primary.

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