Saturday, June 6, 2020

Stories For D-Day - Part 1

On the 76th anniversary of the Allied landings at Normandy, here are some things going on:

From National Review, have we forgotten what the word "hero" means?

From Townhall and the "be careful what you ask for" department, the call to "abolish the police" could come to fruition in one school district.

From The Washington Free Beacon, UCLA intends to investigate a lecturer for reading Dr. King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" verbatim.

From the Washington Examiner, a video shows white thugs attacking a black policeman in Austin, Texas.

From The Federalist, the ACLU shows its hypocrisy on curfews.

From American Thinker, Black Lives Matter are domestic terrorists.

From LifeZette, Governor Blackface (D-VA) removes a statue of Robert E. Lee, of which Democrats approve.

From NewsBusters, mayors show their double standards.

From Canada Free Press, "the takedown of America".

From CBC News, bans on crossing Canadian provincial borders inspire lawsuits.

From Global News, the Canadian province of Ontario extends its coronavirus measures until June 19th.

From CTV News, RCMP in the province of Nova Scotia capture an escapee charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault.

From TeleSUR, the votes are being counted in St. Kitts and Nevis.

From Morocco World News, a look at life under coronavirus lockdown in Morocco's Atlas Mountains.

From Hürriyet Daily News, a magnitude-5 earthquake strikes in eastern Turkey.

From Rûdaw, two Kurds are appointed cabinet ministers in Iraq's government.

From Panorama, Armenia opens a new coronavirus assessment center.  (via The Armenian Reporter)

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus's health ministry issues guidelines for operating gyms.

From Arutz Sheva, the Palestinian Authority tells the International Criminal Court that its considers itself exempt from the Oslo Accords.

From The Times Of Israel, a "radical settler" wars against Israel's potential annexation of the Jordan Valley.

From The Jerusalem Post, a man allegedly stabs a woman and jumps from a building in Modi'in Illit, West Bank.

From YNetNews, a record high number of coronavirus tests in Israel reveal an outbreak at a nursing home.

From the Egypt Independent, according to Egypt's health minister, plasma therapy on coronavirus patients has been successful.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi announces a plan for a ceasefire in Libya.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopia bans an athlete for doping.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabian border guards rescue two people stranded at sea.

From The New Arab, Libyan government forces launch an offensive toward Sirte, the hometown of the late dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

From Radio Farda, the Iranian judiciary discloses its spending.

From IranWire, the Iranian state media lies seven times in seven days about protests in the U.S.

From Dawn, French investigators complete their downloading and decoding of the black box from the crashed Pakistani International Airlines plane.

From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani government appoints its first special representative for Afghanistan.

From Pakistan Today, flower millers in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa protest a ban on transporting wheat from the province of Punjab.

From WION, an American blogger accuses then-government officials in Pakistan of raping her in 2011.

From Khaama Press, farmers in Afghanistan suffer from a lack of a domestic market.

From The Hans India, Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi accuses the Indian government of destroying the country's economy.

From the Hindustan Times, the Indian state of Mararashtra decides to procure 10,000 vials of the drug Remdesivir for coronavirus patients.

From ANI, police in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir prevent three youths from becoming terrorists.

From India Today, according to India's environment ministry, the country's tiger population is growing.

From India(dot)com, members of Bajrang Dal in the Indian state of Bihar try force a Muslim man to chant "jai sri Ram" and attempt to slit his throat when he refuses.  (Wiki has some information on Bajrang Dal.)

From the Dhaka Tribune, the Bangladeshi government adopts a new coronavirus lockdown strategy.

From the Daily Mirror, when Sri Lankan leopards get trapped.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka's agriculture department launches a program to control yellow spotted grasshoppers.

From Maldives Insider, the Maldive Islands reports its eight death from the coronavirus.

From the Pulse, an Imam in Ghana throws a worshiper out of his mosque for not wearing a face mask.

From Asian Image, a Muslim social media star removes her hijab.

From The Jakarta Post, the Indonesian government is confident that the country can avoid a post-coronavirus food crisis.

From The Straits Times, the Philippines fears a baby boom resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia tightens its security on its peninsular west coast.

From Free Malaysia Today, a trade association encourages Malaysian barbers and hairdressers to get tested for the coronavirus  before resuming their work.

From Vietnam Plus, international media reports on soccer games in Vietnam, with packed stadiums.

From The Mainichi, residents of Japan's "garbage island" are set to return it to its pristine state.

From The Stream, I will reach out my hand, but never take a knee.

From BizPac Review, former President Obama's Tweet about wearing orange backfires.

From Stars And Stripes, on an unusual D-Day, a man lays a wreathe at Normandy.

From The Christian Post, according to an opinion column, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts is wrong, and it matters.

From ZeroHedge, OPEC and its allies agree to extend their oil production cut for a month.

From MLive, Michigan's Supreme Court sides with a barber in the town of Owosso.  (via the New York Post.)

And from the New York Post, a protester in Brooklyn single-handedly negotiates a truce with the NYPD.

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