Saturday, June 20, 2020

Saturday Solstice Stuff - Part 2

As the day of the summer solstice gets cloudy, rainy, and then sunny, here are some more things going on:

From The Mainichi, live music venues in Tokyo reopen.

From Vietnam Plus, two tonnes of Vietnamese lychee arrive in Japan.

From the Borneo Post, police in Malaysia bust a syndicate selling fake coronvirus test results.

From Free Malaysia Today, the Malaysian government targets 5,000 jobs for urban poor people.

From The Straits Times, the Chinese government unveils a new security law for Hong Kong, and an agency to oversee its implementation.

From The Jakarta Post, a whale beached on the Indonesian island of Bali is butchered and has its oil extracted.

From Maldives Insider, the Maldive Islands sends almost 2,500 undocumented Bangladeshi workers home.

From the Daily Mirror, a partial solar eclipse will be seen tomorrow over Sri Lanka.

From the Colombo Page, Port City Beach in Colombo, Sri Lanka will be reopened next year.

From the Dhaka Tribune, when and how to watch tomorrow's annual solar eclipse in Bangladesh.

From The Hans India, India refutes China's claim to sovereignty over the Galwan Valley in the territory of Ladakh.

From the Hindustan Times, India gives its soldiers "complete freedom of action" in the Galwan Valley.

From ANI, members of the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress hold an anti-China protest in Siliguri, West Bengal, India.

From India Today, anti-China protesters outside an Oppo factory in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh burn an effigy of Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

From Khaama Press, a prominent Afghan writer's wife and daughter are killed in an explosion in Kabul.

From Dawn, Pakistan's cricket team will travel to England to play some matches.

From The Express Tribune, tomorrow's annual solar eclipse will be visible in Karachi, Pakistan.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani envoy Muhammad Sadid Khan goes to Doha, Qatar to talk with Taliban leaders.

From Radio Farda, who benefits from the death of fugitive Iranian judge Gholamreza Mansuri?

From IranWire, a pilot "proudly" remembers helping Quds Force Commander Ghasem Soleimani smuggle illegal cargo into Syria.

From The New Arab, Johnson & Johnson decides to discontinue selling skin-whitening products in the Middle East.

From the Saudi Gazette, for the first time ever, a woman is appointed to a quasi-judicial position in Saudi Arabia.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopia's foreign minister promises that water will be dammed.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt calls in the U.N. Security Council to step into its dam dispute.

From Egypt Today, Egypt gets the World Travel and Tourism Council's Safe Travel Stamp.

From Arutz Sheva, the body of a missing IDF soldier is found near a military base in southern Israel.

From The Times Of Israel, the Palestinian Authority orders the West Bank cities of Hebron and Nablus to be locked down after a large increase in coronavirus cases.

From The Jerusalem Post, why many Palestinians are apathetic to Israel's plans to annex the Jordan Valley.

From YNetNews, the lie behind riots in Jaffa, Israel.

From In-Cyprus, the Cypriot interior ministry clarifies its coronavirus requirements for crossing the island's checkpoints.

From Rûdaw, coalition airstrikes destroy three ISIS hideouts in the Iraqi province of Kirkuk.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey hits 700 PKK targets in northern Iraq in its Claw-Tiger Operation.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey's total of coronavirus cases passes 185,000, but a downward trend in new cases continues.

From Morocco World News, Senegalese people migrate to Morocco.

From Al Arabiya, Hamas reportedly attacks an 85-year-old woman and arrests the journalists who report it.

And from Gatestone Institute, Turkish President Erdoğan hopes for "many more happy conquests".

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