As a warm cloudy Friday hangs around, here are some more things going on:
From The Mainichi, in a rare phenomenon, the shadow of Mount Chokai appears on the Sea of Japan.
From Vietnam Plus, in the Vietnamese province of Dien Bien, seven men are given death sentences for trafficking drugs.
From the Borneo Post, Malaysians are called to celebrate their country's National Day on social media due to the coronavirus.
From Free Malaysia Today, an attempt to stop a snap election in the Malaysian state of Sabah hits a stumbling block.
From The Straits Times, Singapore will allow travel to Brunei and New Zealand.
From The Jakarta Post, according to Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, the coronavirus pandemic presents an opportunity for reforms in Indonesia.
From Maldives Insider, a resort in the Maldive Islands offers in-house coronavirus testing for its guests.
From the Daily Mirror, according to Sri Lankan opposition politician Lakshman Kiriella, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's "one country, one law" concept could be difficult to adopt.
From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka's police and air force combine to raid cannabis fields in a national park.
From the Dhaka Tribune, locals in the Bangladeshi district of Panchagarh are wary as tigers enter from India.
From The Hans India, India's Supreme Court allows three Jain temples in Mumbai to hold prayers.
From the Hindustan Times, satellite imagery suggests that China is stepping up its military infrastructure near Lipulekh Pass near the Line of Actual Control with India.
From ANI, President Ram Nath Kovind greets Indians on the eve of Ganesh Chaturthi.
From India Today, India tightens its visa rules for people linked to China's "growing outreach network".
From Khaama Press, female students in the Afghan province of Badakhshan reportedly could not attend university entrance tests due to threats from the Taliban.
From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani province of Punjab starts smart swab sampling to test for the coronavirus.
From Radio Farda, Iran is defiant as three European countries refuse a U.S. effort to reinstate U.N. sanctions.
From IranWire, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi praises Nizar Zakka for speaking out about the torture he endured in prison in Iran.
From The New Arab, the Libyan government announces a ceasefire and calls for elections.
From Stepfeed, Beirut still needs help.
From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabian Attorney General Sheikh Saud Bin Abdullah al-Muajab specifies which crimes require arrest and detention.
From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopia will airlift 1,380 of its citizens from Lebanon and Yemen.
From the Egypt Independent, the Egyptian governorate of Luxor announces the resumption of tourism to the area in September.
From Egypt Today, a three-way summit between Egypt, Jordan and Iraq is set for next week.
From Arutz Sheva, Saudi Arabia's price for peace with Israel is reportedly a Palestinian state.
From The Times Of Israel, Israel's Iron Dome defense system intercepts a rocket launched from Gaza.
From The Jerusalem Post, Israel strikes Hamas targets in response to rockets launched from Gaza.
From YNetNews, the prospect of peace between Israel and the UAE stirs nostalgia for an Israeli woman who fled Bahrain in 1953.
From The Syrian Observer, the Syrian army and jihadist rebels attack each other in the region of Idleb.
From In-Cyprus, the Cypriot government announces new coronavirus measures.
From Panorama, according to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, military victories in July show that there is no military solution to the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. (via The Armenian Reporter)
From Rûdaw, Kurdish counter-terror troops capture an ISIS cell in Erbil, Iraq.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey discovers 320 billion cubic feet of natural gas under the Black Sea.
From Turkish Minute, Turkey reportedly converts the Kariye Museum in İstanbul, which was once an Orthodox Christian church, into a Mosque. (Its name is also spelled "Chora".)
From Morocco World News, Moroccan goalkeeper Yassine Bounou leads his Spanish soccer team Sevilla FC to victory in the Europa League.
From The National Herald, more on the conversion of the Chora church into a mosque.
And from Gatestone Institute, the U.N. supports the "world's worst state sponsor of terrorism".
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