Monday, July 6, 2020

Monday Mania - Part 2

As another Monday hangs around, here are some more manic things going on:

From Morocco World News, 9 out of 10 beaches in Morocco are clean.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey promises to retaliate if the E.U. imposes any new sanctions.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey reports 1,148 new coronavirus cases and 19 more deaths.

From Rûdaw, Iraqi security analyst and Rûdaw columnist Husham al-Hashimi is assassinated in Baghdad.

From Panorama, according to an Armenian human rights activist, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is "breaking records" set by all of his predecessors.  (via The Armenian Reporter)

From In-Cyprus, more people in Cyprus may now swim in the same pool.

From The Syrian Observer, the Syrian army inflicts heavy losses on ISIS in the region of Badiya al-Sham.

From Arutz Sheva, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein hopes that Israel will not need a new coronavirus lockdown.

From The Times Of Israel, the Israeli Knesset advances a bill that would allow the government to impose coronavirus restrictions before getting Knesset approval.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel can prevent future coronavirus closures.

From YNetNews, Israeli ministers vote to shut down gyms, bars and event halls, but not synagogues or yeshivas.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt plans to sink old equipment into the Red Sea to make artificial reefs.  (I seem to recall something similar to that sort of thing happening in the Book of Exodus.)

From Egypt Today, Egypt's tourism ministry provides a hotline for tourists.

From the Saudi Gazette, it's time for Muslims to register for the Hajj.

From StepFeed, Lebanon gives the world a musical message.

From The New Arab, months before Arab journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered, his son was threatened with unemployment.

From Radio Farda, Azerbaijan denies that its airspace was used to carry out attacks against Iran.

From Dawn, Pakistan's 27-year power generation plan reportedly ignores indigenous energy sources.

From The Express Tribune, Prime Minister Imran Khan wants Pakistan's justice system to be revamped.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan's Tiger Force recovers 16,000 tonnes of sugar from mills in the province of Punjab.

From Khaama Press, a clash in Kabul sends one terrorist to his virgins.

From The Hans India, Indian and Chinese troops both retreat two kilometers in the Galwan Valley in the region of Ladakh.

From the Hindustan Times, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Rajasthan orders sanitation workers to avoid going down manholes.

From ANI, police in the Indian state of Haryana seize 822 kilos of ganja from a truck and make one arrest.

From India Today, archaeological monuments in Delhi reopen while requiring visitors to wear masks.

From DNA, Muslims demand a ban on a movie about their prophet.

From the New Delhi Times, online propaganda from ISIS calls for jihad in India.

From the Dhaka Tribune, the flood situation in parts of Bangladesh improves slightly.

From the Daily Mirror, India's coast guard rescues six Sri Lankan fishermen.

From the Colombo Page, five Sri Lankans are arrested for allegedly harassing a Russian woman in Galle Face Green, a park in Colombo.

From Maldives Insider, the resort Soneva launches an online course on tropical organic gardening.

From Punch, sharia police intercept a motorcycle loaded with beer in Nigeria's Kano State.  (This is perhaps the one crime for which I'd help the perpetrator dispose of the evidence, you might say.)

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto travels to Moscow.

From The Straits Times, under China's new security law imposed on Hong Kong, people may be barred from leaving.

From the Borneo Post, according to Malaysia's police inspector-general, actions taken against illegal immigrants are done for national security and health reasons.

From Free Malaysia Today, according to Malaysia's communications and multimedia minister, 172 cases of "fake news" are under investigation.

From Vietnam Plus, in the province of Nam Dinh, Vietnamese people go fly their kites.

From The Mainichi, Chinese ships intrude into Japan's territorial waters.

And from Gatestone Institute, how Palestinian leaders terrorize their own people.

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