Friday, July 24, 2020

Friday Fuss - Part 2

As a formerly rainy and sunny Friday turns cloudy, here are some more things going on:

From Morocco World News, the Moroccan Ministry of Islamic Affairs urges that Eid Al Adha prayers are performed at home.

From Hürriyet Daily News, the first Muslim prayers are performed in the Hagia Sophia in 85 years.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey's Constitutional Court opens the way for civil servants dismissed after the 2016 coup attempt to practice law.

From Rûdaw, according to an Iraqi spokesman, abducted German arts teacher Hella Mewis has been rescued from her captors.

From Panorama, Armenia's foreign ministry condemns Azerbaijan's attempts to incite violence against Armenians.  (via The Armenian Reporter)

From In-Cyprus, church bells in Cyprus toll to mourn the conversion of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque.

From The Syrian Observer, Syrian government forces kill a civilian in the town of Nawa.

From Arutz Sheva, the IDF attacks targets in Syria in response to firing on the Golan Heights from Syria.

From The Times Of Israel, hundreds of people protest at Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem while his private home in Caesarea is protectively barricaded by police.

From The Jerusalem Post, the IDF ups its state of alert in northern Israel due to concerns about a possible terror attack by Hezbollah.

From YNetNews, will Israel's budget dispute lead to yet another round of elections?

From the Egypt Independent, according to an expert, Egypt is so far unaffected by Ethiopia's dam filling.

From Egypt Today, Egypt's foreign minister discusses the situation in Libya with his E.U. counterparts.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Japan grants Ethiopia the equivalent of $13.6 million to help fight the coronavirus.

From the Saudi Gazette, police determine that a man riding a camel on a highway in Mecca was psychologically ill.

From The New Arab, how the app TikTok became "Egypt's latest battleground against women".

From Radio Farda, an imam in Qom, Iran calls the coronavirus "secular".

From IranWire, why did an Iranian airline pilot flying over Syria dive after seeing American fighter jets?

From Dawn, a 103-year-old Pakistani man recovers from the coronavirus.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan forms a body for projects in the province of Balochistan.

From Pakistan Today, according to Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Pakistan International Airlines should be restructured instead of privatized.

From Khaama Press, the Afghan army publishes a photo of terrorists who joined the Taliban after being released from prison.

From The Hans India, India and China agree on an "early and complete" troop disengagement in the eastern part of the region of Ladakh.

From the Hindustan Times, India and China still have some differences over the disengagement process.

From ANI, India's forest department rescues a leopard from a well in the state of Maharashtra.

From India Today, animals in the Byculla Zoo in Mumbai, India enjoy time without humans, absent due to coronavirus lockdowns.

From the Dhaka Tribune, as deaths from the coronavirus decrease, life slowly returns toward normal in Chittagong, Bangladesh.

From the Daily Mirror, protesters accuse Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa of insulting all women.

From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan navy assists a Kenyan ship that lost power.

From Maldives Insider, the hotel company Banyan Tree donates medical equipment to help the Maldive Islands fight the coronavirus.

From The Jakarta Post, Australian and the International Organization for Migration donate medical equipment to Indonesia for its fight against the coronavirus.

From The Straits Times, a Hong Kong couple is found not guilty of rioting charges.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysian customs authorities foil an attempt to smuggle red sandalwood.

From Free Malaysia Today, 227 people are caught for allegedly violating Malaysia's recovery movement control order and 10 foreigners are detained for alleged immigration offenses.

From Vietnam Plus, factories that produce pollution are still present in central Hanoi.

From The Mainichi, single-use face masks and other gear used against the coronavirus could end up polluting the ocean.

And from Gatestone Institute, are Palestinians the victims of racism from other Arabs?

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