Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Tuesday Things - Part 2

As a cool Tuesday heads toward evening, here are some more things going on:

From The Mainichi, a Boeing 737-800 parked at Japan's Narita International Airport is spun around by strong winds.

From the Borneo Post, according to Malaysian minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob, deleting fake news and apologizing will not get anyone off the hook.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysian palm oil producers are told to stop using chemicals that are harmful to wildlife.

From The Straits Times, about 12,000 students from low-income families will receive vouchers for buying meals during Singapore's coronavirus circuit breaker period.

From The Jakarta Post, the governor of the Indonesian province of Gorontolo pledges to donate his salary for two years to help people affected by the coronavirus.

From Maldives Insider, the main airport in the Maldive Islands becomes a ghost town.

From the Daily Mirror, two Sri Lankan villages are isolated due to the coronavirus.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan police arrest 24 people for visiting Hindu temples for New Year's rituals and ignoring instructions from security personnel.

From the Dhaka Tribune, three people are arrested in the Pabna, Bangladesh and in the district of Bhola for allegedly misappropriating rice.

From The Hans India, Muslims perform the last rites for a Hindu man who died from throat cancer, since his family could not be present due to India's coronavirus lockdown.

From the Hindustan Times, trains and airline flights in, to, or from India will remain suspended until May 3rd.

From ANI, migrant workers in Hyderabad, India claim that authorities have neglected them.

From India Today, eight more coronavirus hotspots in Delhi, India are sealed.

From Khaama Press, at least 29 Taliban terrorists are killed or wounded in separate incidents in the Afghan province of Badghis.

From Dawn, according to Prime Minister Imran Khan, Pakistan's lockdown on public gatherings will stay in place for two more weeks.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani soldiers and rangers distribute food to needy people in Karachi.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani clerics want mosques to open, but are willing to implement precautionary measures.

From Radio Farda, unidentified armed men board a Hong Kong-flagged oil tanker off the Iranian coast.

From IranWire, who are the Iraqi-sponsored militia men disinfecting streets in Qom, Iran?

From StepFeed, the founder of a business that enables people in the UAE and Kuwait to pay rent on line tells his story.

From The New Arab, Hamas gives Israel a list of 250 Palestinian prisoners that it wants released from Israeli jails.  (The article cites, but does not link to, the Israeli site Haaretz.)

From the Saudi Gazette, two Saudi energy companies plan to build a 100-bed mobile hospital in Medina, Saudi Arabia.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, a million face masks arrive in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

From the Egypt Independent, Gharbiya, Egypt is locked down due to 18 of its residents contracting the coronavirus.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian security forces in Cairo send a group of terrorists to their virgins.

From Arutz Sheva, is another coronavirus lockdown in Israel coming?

From The Times Of Israel, the Alexander River in Israel runs blood red from slaughterhouse refuse.

From The Jerusalem Post, a successful Israeli coronavirus treatment is used on an American patient.

From YNetNews, President Reuven Rivlin apologizes for a second time for disobeying Israel's coronavirus lockdown rules.

From The Syrian Observer, Russia and the U.S. reinforce respective positions in Syria.

From In-Cyprus, two Georgian women are each fined for violating Cyprus's stay-at-home decree and stealing potatoes.  (I'm pretty sure that the Georgia they're from is not next to Florida and Alabama, but next to Armenia and Azerbaijan.)

From Rûdaw, Iraq plans to "ramp up" its efforts against ISIS.

From Hürriyet Daily News, the Turkish parliament ratifies a bill to reduce the sentences of almost 90,000 prisoners and release them to avoid a possible coronavirus outbreak in the prisons.

From Turkish Minute, another bill passed by the Turkish parliament will allow intelligence officers to "question" prisoners about terror-related crimes.

From Morocco World News, Morocco starts developing an app that tracks coronavirus carriers.

From Palestinian Media Watch, a Palestinian girl shows that she is no fan of U.S. President Trump.

And from Gatestone Institute, why doesn't anyone seem to care about Palestinians in Syrian jails?

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