Saturday, May 30, 2020

Saturday Links - Part 1

On the last Saturday in May, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) is still under investigation for possible insider trading.

From Townhall, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) pleads for the rioters in her city to stop.

From The Washington Free Beacon, U.S. congresscritters go big on outdoing China on science.

From the Washington Examiner, according to the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul, the people arrested in the riots on Friday don't live in the area.

From The Federalist, social media does not deserve protection from liability.

From American Thinker, what the rioters and those who defend them have squandered.

From CNS News, Chief Justice John Roberts supports California Governor Gavin Newsom's (D) restrictions on churches that don't apply to offices or supermarkets.

From NewsBusters, the director of the female-centered remake of Ghostbusters blames it failure on  sexism and racism by Trump supporters.

From Canada Free Press, Democrats and the fake news media exploit George Floyd's death.

From CBC News, some answers to questions about the coronavirus.

From Global News, the Canadian province of Ontario will allow backcountry camping starting this coming Monday as coronavirus restrictions are eased.

From CTV News, Pointe-a-la-Croix, Quebec gets a coronavirus test center as an outbreak occurs in nearby Campbellton, New Brunswick.

From Morocco World News, a movement emerges among people in Western Sahara wanting to be free of the influence of the Polisario Front and Algeria.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey will allow domestic flights to resume on June 1st.

From Rûdaw, according to Kurdistan regional President Barzani, Kurds must be included in "roadmap" talks between Iraq and the U.S.

From The Armenian Reporter, the Armenian Church will begin Elijah's fast this coming Monday.

From In-Cyprus, 10 hotels in Paphos, Cyprus plan to reopen in June.

From The Times Of Israel, police in East Jerusalem fatally shot a man whom they though held "a suspicious object that appeared to be a gun".

From The Jerusalem Post, despite a recent spike in new coronavirus cases, most schools in Israel will meet tomorrow.

From YNetNews, Israel's bone marrow courier races against time in a coronavirus world.

From the Egypt Independent, home delivery of medicine to self-isolating coronavirus patients starts in Egypt.

From Egypt Today, Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court rules to dissolve the Building and Development Party and liquidate its funds.

From The Ethiopian Monitor, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia starts rationing food to at least 1,000 of its vulnerable residents.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia's minister of the interior revises rules on gatherings and classification of violations of its coronavirus measures.

From The New Arab, Saudi Arabia's Shura Council rejects a proposal to allow women to marry without permission from a male guardian.  (If you read Arabic, read a related story at Al Riyadh.)

From Radio Farda, new coronavirus cases remain high in Iran all of its restrictions are lifted.

From IranWire, city workers in Kermanshah, Iran use tear gas and pepper spray to force an elderly woman out of her shack, after which she dies.

From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani government makes face masks in public mandatory due to the coronavirus.

From Pakistan Today, according to a Sindh provincial minister, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan allowed the export of sugar.

From Khaama Press, redefining and redesigning the banking and financial sectors in Afghanistan.

From The Hans India, the Indian government will keep its coronavirus restrictions in place in containment zones until June 30th.

From the Hindustan Times, 10 big takeaways from the Indian government's "unlock 1" phase of easing its coronavirus restrictions.

From ANI, the Indian state of West Bengal allows tea garden workers to go back to their jobs.

From India Today, the Indian parliament is sanitized after a fourth coronavirus case is reported in the complex.

From the Dhaka Tribune, according to scientists at the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the coronavirus came to Bangladesh from Europe.

From the Daily Mirror, dengue is on the rise again in Sri Lanka.

From the Colombo Page, three Sri Lankan police officers for allegedly not responding to a shooting incident.

From Maldives Insider, the Maldive Islands moves to reopen its government offices under strict rules.

From The Jakarta Post, a 100-year-old woman in Surabaya, Indonesia recovers from the coronavirus.

From The Straits Times, why Singapore can't cut down on foreign workers like other countries have.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysians are still not allowed to travel outside Malaysia.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia police detain a German man from trying to walk between states without the appropriate permit.

From Vietnam Plus, a boy returning from Russia becomes Vietnam's newest coronavirus case.

From The Mainichi, the Holocaust Education Center in Hiroshima, Japan reopens with a message promoting peace.

From The Stream, when the government kills the innocent.

From GeekWire, vandals shatter windows at an Amazon Go store in Seattle.  (The article uses the term "protesters", with which I disagree.  If you break a window, you're not protesting, you're vandalizing.)

From The Right Scoop, black leaders call out extremists such as Antifa for turning protests into riots.

From Breitbart, the Minnesota National Guard has been "fully mobilized for the first time since World War II".

From WPVI-TV, protesters kneel and Philadelphia's City Hall and march for George Floyd.

From the New York Post, seven questions for Major League Baseball's attempt to have a 2020 season.

From Twitchy, the president of CNN does not appear to watch his own network.

And from Click Orlando, the SpaceX Dragon lifts off, carrying two NASA astronauts.

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