Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Wednesday Whatnot - Part 1

On a very warm and cloudy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to Dr. Deborah Birx, 70 coronavirus testing places were destroyed in the George Floyd riots.

From FrontpageMag, contrary to the message from governments, we're not really all in this together.

From Townhall, the real plight faced by black Americans.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Arizona State University revokes a job offer to a professor who called some cops "good" in a Tweet.

From the Washington Examiner, the George Floyd protests get hijacked.

From The Federalist, under President Trump, half of National Security Council leaders are women.

From American Thinker, can there really be an honest conversation about race?

From CNS News, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) is "very proud" of most police departments that he knows about.

From LifeZette, as Trump's "dominance of the streets" strategy works, the National Guard starts to pull out.

From NewsBusters, the networks give Trump more than nine times the negative comments that they give  former Vice President Biden.

From Canada Free Press, the left drives its agenda with fake catastrophes and "expert" advice.

From CBC News, high school students who lost loved ones in the Nova Scotia mass shooting hold a drive-in graduation.

From Global News, Starbucks plans to close up to 200 of its coffee shops in Canada.

From CTV News, hundreds sign a petition demanding the renaming of Dundas Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

From TeleSUR, Peru reports a total of over 200,000 coronavirus cases.

From Morocco World News, Morocco's Supreme Scientific Council that mosques will reopen "in a timely manner, when safe".

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey rules out going to war with Greece over their maritime dispute.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey's intelligence agency reportedly has identified hundreds of Turkish asylum seekers in Germany and Greece.

From Rûdaw, Spanish troops plan to withdraw from a military base southeast of Baghdad.

From Panorama, a coronavirus outbreak closes two factories in Gyumri, Armenia.  (via The Armenian Reporter)

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus's health ministry sets limits on indoor and outdoor gatherings.

From The Syrian Observer, the Syrian government arrests protesters in the city of Suweida.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas that Germany should stop funding anti-Israel organizations.

From The Times Of Israel, Maas calls Israeli plans to annex the Jordan Valley illegal, but does not threaten any sanctions.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israeli students are confused over their exams and when the school year ends due to the coronavirus.

From YNetNews, Israeli settlers launch a campaign against U.S. President Trump's peace plan.

From the Egypt Independent, the first round of renewed dam talks has reportedly not gone over well.

From Egypt Today, according to Egypt's director of blood transfusion banks, private hospitals and labs are not authorized to separate plasma from the blood of recovered coronavirus patients.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, 15,300 Ethiopian citizens have been repatriated in two months.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabian King Salman okays several projects at the Prophet's Mosque in Medina.

From The New Arab, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh promises to declare an independent state if Israel goes through with annexing the Jordan Valley.

From Radio Farda, Iran plans to shut down several foreign language TV channels broadcasting to other countries.

From IranWire, how can a fugitive Iranian judge in Germany accused of accepting a bribe be brought to justice?

From Dawn, Prime Minister Imran Khan wants the inquiry into Pakistan's sugar scam to be taken to its logical end.

From The Express Tribune, a professor at Shah Abdul Latif University in Khairpur, Pakistan is arrested on blasphemy charges.

From Pakistan Today, a report on the crash of a Pakistan International Airlines plane will be presented to Pakistan's National Assembly on June 22nd.

From Khaama Press, according to an opinion column, the U.S. has been nonchalant in Afghanistan, and the Taliban can't be trusted.

From The Hans India, in the territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Indian security forces send three terrorists to their virgins.

From the Hindustan Times, the Telangana Bonalu festival is canceled due to an increasing number of coronavirus cases in Hyderabad, India.

From ANI, the Indian state of Telangana prepares for a possible locust attack.

From India Today, according to a Chinese official, India and China are taking steps to ease the situation along their common border.

From the Dhaka Tribune, a woman and her son are killed by an exploding cell phone in Narayanganj, Bangladesh.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka's elections commission announces a general election to be held on August 5th.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka grants religious institutions permission to reopen on June 12th and tuition classes to resume on June 29th.

From Maldives Insider, the World Bank pledges $12.8 million to help workers in the Maldive Islands who jobs have been hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

From the Inquirer, 1,000 doves have died of starvation at the blue-tiled mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan after it was closed due to the coronavirus.

From News18, who speaks for the Dalits victimized by riots in northeast Delhi?

From The Jakarta Post, according to Coordinating Economic Minister Airlangga Hartanto, Indonesia needs at least 340 million ampules of coronavirus vaccines.

From The Straits Times, Singapore approves the drug remdevisir for use on seriously ill coronavirus patients.

From the Borneo Post, schools in Malaysia are expected to reopen on June 24th.

From Free Malaysia Today, police in Malaysia arrest 371 people for allegedly involvement in human trafficking.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnam and Brunei agree on future efforts to reestablish their mutual trade.

From The Mainichi, an elderly man is accused of fatally poisoning cats in Japan's "cat island".

From Gatestone Institute, the Gaza that we're not supposed to see.

From The Stream, four things to understand about the "defund the police" movement.

From CBS News, George Floyd and the cop who later killed him "butted heads" at a night club where they both worked, according to another former coworker.  (via the Washington Examiner)

From BizPac Review, a New York State police union blasts the left-wing media for its false anti-police narrative.

From the New York Post, a former judge asks that General Michael Flynn is sentenced, even though the DOJ wants the case to be dismissed.

From the Daily Caller, liberal reporters push a very old conspiracy theory against President Trump.

And from Twitchy, a council member unlocks the door to Seattle's city hall, and the protesters take over.

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