As a cloudy Friday heads toward evening, here are some more things going on:
From The Mainichi, a Japanese traveler stranded in Peru for over 200 days is given a one-man tour of Machu Pichu.
From Vietnam Plus, Foreign Ministers Phan Binh Minh (Vietnam) and Peter Szijjarto (Hungary) highlight the traditional friendship between their two countries.
From the Borneo Post, Malaysia reports a daily record of 409 recoveries from the coronavirus.
From Free Malaysia Today, some businesses in the Malaysian state of Sabah get two more hours per day to operate.
From The Straits Times, police in Bangkok, Thailand use water containing "stinging chemicals" to disperse protesters.
From The Jakarta Post, a 10-year-old boy is murdered in the Indonesian province of Aceh while trying to defend his mother from a rapist.
From Maldives Insider, a Maldivian resort plans to put on a circus starting in December.
From the Daily Mirror, six villages are locked down in Rambukkana, Sri Lanka due to two people testing positive for the coronavirus.
From the Colombo Page, the coronavirus cluster in Divulapitiya, Sri Lanka grows to 1,899 cases.
From the Dhaka Tribune, hundreds of Bangladeshi anti-rape demonstrators start marching from Dhaka to Noakhali.
From The Hans India, India's coronavirus death rate is the lowest in seven months.
From the Hindustan Times, Indian health authorities decide to reassess the country's coronavirus treatment protocol.
From India Today, according to Indian External Affair Minister S Jaishankar, the relationship between India and China is "profoundly disturbed" by military clashes at their border.
From Khaama Press, the Taliban claims to have been joined by a "female commander" in the Afghan province of Baghlan.
From Dawn, is the Pakistani government setting up digital surveillance of its citizens?
From The Express Tribune, opposition politicians speak at the first Pakistan Democratic Movement rally.
From Pakistan Today, protests are held in Karachi, Pakistan after the murder of a prominent cleric.
From Radio Farda, two women are summoned to prison for signing a statement calling for Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei to step down. (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)
From IranWire, an Iranian-American jailed in Iran faces health issues.
From The New Arab, how art is turned into a political weapon in Lebanon.
From the Saudi Gazette, the Saudi Arabian open air museum AlUla will reopen its heritage sites on October 31st.
From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed talks with regional and security officials over the conflict in the zone of Metekel.
From the Egypt Independent, Egypt plans to launch its first domestically assembled electric car in 2021.
From Egypt Today, two men suspected of killing a woman in the Cairo district of Al-Maadi are detained for four days pending an investigation. (The article calls the victim a "24-year-old girl".)
From Arutz Sheva, a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip explodes in an open area in southern Israel.
From The Times Of Israel, Israel and Bahrain plan to sign a joint declaration in a step toward having a peace agreement.
From The Jerusalem Post, remembering the lynching of two IDF reservists in Ramallah, West Bank.
From YNetNews, according to an opinion column, "Israel needs elections right now".
From The Syrian Observer, an attack by Syrian and Russian forces kills 30 opposition fighters at their training camp.
From In-Cyprus, after undergoing surgery in Athens, Cyprus Archbishop Chrysostomos returns to his duties.
From ArmenPress, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan meets with Armenian reserve troops and tells them "we will not allow the enemy to trample our homeland".
From Hürriyet Daily News, Presidents Recep Erdoğan (Turkey) and Volodymyr Zelensky (Ukraine) meet in Ankara.
From Morocco World News, Morocco's Directorate of Territorial Surveillance helps Spanish authorities dismantle a terror cell.
And from Gatestone Institute, Turkish President Erdoğan continues to insult and threaten Arabs.
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