As a rainy Thursday hangs around, here are some more things going on:
From Morocco World News, Morocco's embassy in South Africa campaigns to raise awareness on Western Sahara.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey plans to reopen its schools on September 21st.
From Turkish Minute, some graves in an Armenian cemetery in Ankara, Turkey are desecrated.
From Panorama, former Soviet Armenian boxer Israel Hakobkokhyan goes on a hunger strike. (via The Armenian Reporter)
From In-Cyprus, police in Cypriot cities take steps to reduce noise.
From The Syrian Observer, Jordan closes a border crossing with Syria for one week.
From Arutz Sheva, Israel and the UAE reach a "historic" peace agreement, brokered by the administration of U.S. President Trump.
From The Times Of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu promises that other Arab countries will follow the UAE's lead.
From The Jerusalem Post, more on the peace deal between Israel and the UAE.
From YNetNews, who wins and loses in the new Israel-UAE agreement?
From the Egypt Independent, according to Sudan's prime minister, only negotiation can solve the dam crisis.
From Egypt Today, Egypt will host the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation's Women Development Organization.
From the Ethiopian Monitor, 53,158 people are displaced by flooding in Ethiopia.
From the Saudi Gazette, coalition forces destroy two missiles and an explosive-laden drone launched by Houthi rebels in Yemen.
From The New Arab, U.S. President Trump announces the peace deal between Israel and the UAE.
From Radio Farda, Iranian conservatives are uncertain about whether they can win the 2021 presidential election.
From IranWire, Iran shuts down a newspaper for publishing an interview about the country's true coronavirus death toll.
From Dawn, Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurates a "long-awaited" bus public transit system in Peshawar, Pakistan.
From The Express Tribune, religious minorities in Pakistan return to their houses of worship ahead of the country's Independence Day.
From Pakistan Today, according to Pakistan's Foreign Office, parts of the border with Afghanistan have been fenced because of "security concerns".
From The Hans India, Narendra Modi becomes India's longest-serving non-Congress prime minister.
From the Hindustan Times, access to quality Internet is possible only for about half of India's population, 25 years after it is introduced into the country.
From India Today, police in Hyderabad, India bust on online gaming racket and arrest four suspects including a Chinese national.
From The Times Of India, the mother of a girl in Bengaluru, India accused of making a derogatory post on Facebook credits "local Muslim youths" for rescuing her from violence.
From the Dhaka Tribune, Banglasdesh Railway will crack down on tickets sold through the black market.
From the Daily Mirror, seven Sri Lankans are remanded in the Seychelles after tonnes of sharks are found in their ship. (A "tonne", also called a "metric ton", is 1,000 kilograms.)
From the Colombo Page, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa instructs Sri Lanka's new ministers to assume their duties before next Monday.
From Maldives Insider, more endangered sea turtles find safety at Grand Park Kodhipparu.
From CHVN, 28 people are killed in a suicide attack by ISIS in Nguetchewe, Cameroon.
From The American Spectator, big tech needs to get rid of its double standards on "hate speech".
From Gatestone Institute, Palestinians regard Jews and Christians as their enemy.
From The Jakarta Post, only eight students are selected to participate in Indonesia's national flag-raising ceremony for this year.
From The Straits Times, Singapore's sole President's Scholarship recipient for this year wants to make public policies easier to understand.
From the Borneo Post, the Malaysian legislature will consider whether to abolish the death penalty for drug trafficking.
From Free Malaysia Today, a generous woman known only as "Madam W" keeps donating money to Malaysian orphanages, even after she passes away.
From Vietnam Plus, Vietnam postpones the Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival due to the coronavirus.
And from The Mainichi, a postcard from a Japanese soldier who died in World War II finally reaches his family.
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