Sunday, March 15, 2020

Stories For The Ides Of March - Part 1

On the day when of which we're supposed to beware, here are some things going on:

From National Review, today, we are all "shut ins".

From Townhall, congresscritter and Squad member Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) wants prisoners to receive clemency because of the coronavirus.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a doctor appearing on CNN dismisses a question about touching a microphone.

From the Washington Examiner, ISIS takes the coronavirus seriously.

From The Federalist, New York's Mr. Bill needs to close the city's schools.

From American Thinker, is closing a country's borders racist if Mexico does it?

From CNS News, President Trump declares a national day of prayer for Americans affected by the coronavirus and for the country's response efforts.

From LifeZette, a Chinese journalist with a 100-degree fever tries to enter a Trump press conference.

From NewsBusters, ABC appears unwilling to accept President Trump's negative coronavirus test result.

From Canada Free Press, countless churches cancel Sunday services due to the coronavirus.

From Global News, three Canadian ski areas shut down due to the coronavirus.

From CTV News, according to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, when dealing with the coronavirus, nothing is "off the table".

From TeleSUR, a team from CARICOM will oversee the recount of Guyana's elections.

From The Mainichi, Prime Ministers Shinzo Abe (Japan) and Boris Johnson (U.K.) agree to cooperate in responding to the coronavirus.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia confirms a total of 428 cases of the coronavirus.

From Free Malaysia Today, festivals in two Malaysian states are postponed due to the coronavirus.

From The Straits Times, Singaporeans and Malaysians will not be affected by border restrictions on neighboring countries.

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesian President Joko Widodo will be tested for the coronavirus.

From Maldives Insider, what to know amid the coronavirus outbreak if you're travelling to the Maldive Islands.

From the Daily Mirror, according to Sri Lanka's health ministry, rumors of Colombo being under a lock down are greatly exaggerated.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka bans travel from the U.K., Belgium and Norway.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion busts an illegal gun manufacturing operation.

From The Hans India, India reports a total of 107 coronavirus cases.

From the Hindustan Times, at the SAARC video conference on the coronavirus, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi offers $10 million worth of aid.

From ANI, hospital personnel screen people at the India-Bangladesh border.

From India Today, police in Mumbai order tour operators to suspend their activities until March 31st.

From Khaama Press, according to the commander of U.S. CENTCOM, the Taliban are not acting in good faith.

From Dawn, how to get tested for the coronavirus in Pakistan.

From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani province of Punjab bans public gatherings due to the coronavirus.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan calls for regional cooperation to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

From Radio Farda, even as Iran has nearly 14,000 cases of the coronavirus, President Rouhani will not declare a lockdown.

From IranWire, Iran arrests critics of its health policies.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From StepFeed, some female Arab poets worth reading.

From The New Arab, the war in Syria enters its tenth year.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey suspends flights from nine European countries due to the coronavirus.

From Rûdaw, due to a lockdown in response to the coronavirus, the streets of Erbil, Iraq have more pigeons than people.

From In-Cyprus, the archbishop of Cyprus urges Christians to stay away from church until April 10.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli President Rivlin meets with Prime Minister Netanyahu and Blue and White Leader Gantz.

From The Times Of Israel, due to the coronavirus, members of the new Knesset will be sworn in three at a time.

From The Jerusalem Post, why 61 seats in the Knesset is not necessarily a majority.

From YNetNews, Netanyahu gets tested for the coronavirus.

From the Egypt Independent, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi and Sudanese official Mohammad Hamdan Dagalo have a dam meeting.

From Egypt Today, Sudan offers to be the dam mediator between Egypt and Ethiopia.

From Morocco World News, Moroccan government officials get tested for the coronavirus.

From Michael Smith News, three Turkish men are sentenced to 125 years each for the deaths of five refugees, including then-two-year-old Alan Kurdi.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, an Afghan migrant possibly infected with the coronavirus disappears from a facility for asylum seekers in Germany.

From Palestinian Media Watch, the Palestinian Authority praises a woman who murdered 37 Isrealis in 1978.

From Mainstream Weekly, "whither the Muslim community?"

From Gatestone Institute, the persecution of Christians in December 2019.

From The Stream, pray for those who mock what they do not understand.

From the Daily Caller, how countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe are responding to the coronavirus.

From Fox News, Maine observers its 200th anniversary, but not with a party, due to the coronavirus.

From WPVI-TV, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) considers a state-wide curfew, as its number of coronavirus cases reaches 98.

From the New York Post, President Trump is considering a "full pardon" for General Michael Flynn.

And from Page Six, actor Tom Hanks, now under quarantine in Australia after testing positive for the coronavirus, gives an update on his situation.

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