Friday, August 14, 2020

Friday Fuss - Part 1

On a warm partly cloudy Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, former Vice President Biden shows his inconsistent attitudes toward Catholic nuns.

From FrontpageMag, Biden won't be the first alleged sexual harasser enabled by Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal).

From Townhall, Harris's statements on the economy and the coronavirus get fact-checked.

From The Washington Free Beacon, some GOP lawmakers recommend a different course of action against Iran than that pursued by the Trump administration.

From the Washington Examiner, according to a poll, most Biden voters support him because he's not President Trump.  (Yours truly pleads guilty to supporting candidate Trump four years ago in part because he wasn't Hillary Clinton.)

From The Federalist, Biden will not recreate the "Obama coalition".

From American Thinker, three reasons to keep Senator Harris away from the White House.

From CNS News, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) announces universal mail-in voting for this November's election.  (I'm reminded of a certain law which shares the governor's last name.)

From LifeZette, due to women wanted their children to return to school, Trump might get the "Karen" vote.

From NewsBusters, NBC scrutinizes Harris for not being progressive enough.

From Canada Free Press, Democrats focus on Senator Harris's first name.

From CBC News, Canadian health officials warn of a coronavirus "fall peak".

From Global News, asylum seekers in Canada working against coronavirus are given a chance to obtain permanent residency.

From CTV News, the Canadian province of Ontario reports few than 100 new coronavirus cases, including previously missing data from Toronto.

From TeleSUR, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador promises that all Mexican will receive the coronavirus vaccine for free.  (This vaccine was under development by Oxford University in the U.K. and the company AstraZeneca, and should not be confused with the Russian coronavirus vaccine.)

From Morocco World News, Morocco commemorates the 1844 Battle of Isly.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey considers suspending its diplomatic ties with the UAE over its new peace deal with Israel.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey plans to reopen its universities on October 1st, with coronavirus measures.

From Rûdaw, according to an Iraqi military official, U.S. F-16 jets at al-Balad air base are still working well and striking against ISIS.

From The Armenian Reporter, "a brief history of Armenia".  (This is actually the longest article I've ever linked from TAR.  It's also one of the few original articles that I have found at that site, which usually relays material from other sites.)

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus will issue new biometric ID cards.

From The Syrian Observer, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad meets with a UNICEF representative.

From Arutz Sheva, Palestinian Arabs protest against the new Israel-UAE peace agreement.

From The Times Of Israel, outraged by the delay in the annexation of land in the West Bank, in the deal with the UAE, Israeli right-wingers demand the Prime Minister Netanyahu leaves office.

From The Jerusalem Post, winners and losers from the Israel-UAE deal.

From YNetNews, the Israel-UAE deal includes cooperation against the coronavirus.

From the Egypt Independent, the Egyptian governorate of South Sinai is declared free of the coronavirus.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi sends two military planeloads of aid to Sudan to help people affected by floods.

From The Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopia and a U.N. agency to plant trees and create green jobs.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Commerce penalizes 44 electronic stores for violating the country's e-commerce system.

From The New Arab, Palestinian Arabs feel betrayed by the Israel-UAE deal.

From Radio Farda, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Sharif tells Western countries to "stop playing politics with Lebanon's pain".

From IranWire, Iranian prisoners speak out on discrimination and the coronavirus pandemic.

From Dawn, Pakistan celebrates its Independence Day with "traditional zeal".

From The Express Tribune, in a rare move, Pakistan's top diplomat in Bangladesh praises Bengal Muslims for contributing to the creation of Pakistan.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan strikes an optimistic note during his Independence Day speech.

From the Pakistani Christian Post, Pakistani police beat a Christian man to death during an interrogation over alleged drug offenses.

From The Hans India, speaking ahead of India's Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gives China a veiled warning.  (Since India and Pakistan were both part of the U.K.'s Indian Empire and became independent at the same time, it's no surprise that both countries celebrate independence on or around the same date.)

From the Hindustan Times, the planned mosque in Ayodhya, India gets a name.

From ANI, the founder of the organization Humans of Hyderabad offers to adopt a tiger.

From India Today, the Indian spacecraft Chandrayan-2 takes images of a lunar crater, which is named after the father of India's space program.

From the Dhaka Tribune, "a man for all Bangladeshis".

From the Daily Mirror, over 182,600 PCR coronavirus tests have been performed in Sri Lanka.

From the Colombo Page, universities in Sri Lanka will reopen on August 17th.

From Maldives Insider, the Maldive Islands and India create South Asia's first travel bubble.

From The Jakarta Post, the e-scooter service GrabWheels returns to the streets of Jakarta.

From The Straits Times, the food delivery company FoodPanda successfully tests its fried chicken delivery drone system.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia protests the encroachment into its waters by foreign vessels.

From Free Malaysia Today, a sand dredging operation in the Pahang River turns up ancient Chinese and Malay artifacts.

From Vietnam Plus, a Vietnamese-made coronavirus vaccine is set for human trials starting in October.

From The Mainichi, police in the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa scramble to keep drunk people from sleeping on roads.

From Gatestone Institute, according to a report, there are at least 100,000 people held in slavery in the U.K. alone.

From The Stream, former Vice President Biden's proposed national face mask mandate is "absurd and despotic".

From the Daily Caller, a Philippine terrorist leader suspected of beheading hostages surrenders to police after his arm is cut off.

From the New York Post, a radical Islamic cleric is extradited from Jamaica to New York City to face terror-related charges.

From SmallBizDaily, six industries that could thrive after the coronavirus pandemic.

From Space War, the X-37B spaceplane wins the Collier Trophy.

From Fox News, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down California's ban on "high-capacity" magazines.

From The Daily Wire, a former speechwriter for President Obama thinks that the media calling Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal) a moderate is "hilarious".

And from WPVI-TV, the New Jersey organization Push to Walk helps people who live with spinal chord injuries.

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