Friday, October 23, 2020

Friday Phenomena - Part 1

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

From National Review, former Vice President Biden wants it both ways on the oil industry.

From FrontpageMag, President Trump wins a "more civil" debate.

From Townhall, the moment in the debate when Biden threw former President Obama under the bus.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the dark money behind congresscritter Kendra Horn (D-OK).

From the Washington Examiner, under Trump, America's black and Hispanic imprisonment has greatly decreased.

From The Federalist, left-wing rioters aren't just ProFa wackos.

From American Thinker, is 1984 coming close to being reality?

From CNS News, Biden gets mixed up on when the U.S. should become carbon neutral.

From LifeZette, congresscritters AOC (D-NY) and Ilhan Oman (D-Min) join an online event with a vlogger who claimed that "America deserved 9/11".

From NewsBusters, former comedian Stephen Colbert gives New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) a new title.

From Canada Free Press, in the debate, Biden overlooks the real climate change crisis.

From CBC News, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces a plan to purchase 76 million doses of a domestic coronavirus vaccine.

From Global News, "hate graffiti" is engraved on Canada's National War Memorial in Ottawa.

From CTV News, most international travels arriving in Canada have been deemed "essential" and avoid quarantine.

From TeleSUR, Chileans demanding a new constitution wave their flags.

From Morocco World News, Equatorial Guinea inaugurates a consulate in Dakhla, Morocco.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to President Erdoğan, Turkey is willing to work with Russia for peace in Nagorno Karabakh.

From Turkish Minute, police detain co-chairs of the Peoples' Democratic Party in the Turkish province of Diyarbakır.

From Anadolu Agency, Turkey captures a PKK terrorist allegedly involved in an attack in 2016.  (via Rûdaw)

From Rûdaw, a Turkish prosecutor demands a life sentence for a female Syrian-Kurdish fighter.

From ArmenPress, Armenian air defense forces destroy an Azerbaijani drone.

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus issues new instructions for care center visits.

From The Syrian Observer, Syrian President Assad's assault on schools in the region of Idleb.

From Arutz Sheva, Israel and Sudan agree to normalize relations.

From The Times Of Israel, in an about face, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gantz approve the U.S. sale of F-35 fighter jets to the UAE.

From The Jerusalem Post, a PLO official calls Israel-Sudan normalization a "new stab in the back" for Palestinians.

From YNetNews, according to an opinion column, Palestinians have had a century of missed opportunities.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt's only female glass blower fights to keep the craft alive.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel El Sisi inspects road projects in the Cairo area.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Canada's De Havilland Aircraft delivers two passenger planes to Ethiopian Airlines.

From the Saudi Gazette, the Arab Coalition in Yemen destroys two drone launched by the Houthis toward Saudi Arabia.

From The New Arab, a look at art and culture in the Assyrian diaspora.

From IranWire, Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei issues a fatwa on the coronavirus.

From Dawn, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan will talk to U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson to get former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif deported, if necessary.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan desires to reactivate its research program in Antarctica.

From Pakistan Today, according to Pakistan's government, Nawaz Sharif will be in the Kot Lakhpat jail before next January 15th.

From Khaama Press, the Taliban kill 22 Afghan army troops in the province of Nimroz.

From The Hans India, the Indian federal government offers to sell onions to the states.

From the Hindustan Times, the company Bharat Biotech goes into talks to have its potential coronavirus vaccine go global.

From ANI, an idol of the goddess Durga slaying the coronavirus is set up in Hyderabad, India for the festival Durga Puja.

From India Today, India is expected to have a new parliament building in two years.

From One India, Muslim women in India disagree with increasing the age for marriage.

From the Dhaka Tribune, a look at the violence during this month in the Rohingya refugee camps.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan officials seize 12 vehicles from people violating coronavirus curfews.

From the Colombo Page, curfew is imposed in two areas and five villages in Sri Lanka.

From Maldives Insider, Austrian Airlines will offer two flights to the Maldive Islands twice per week.

From The Jakarta Post, human rights groups in Indonesia call for a transparent investigation of a killing in the province of Papua.

From The Straits Times, according to the Archdiocese of Singapore, the Catholic Church has not changed its position on marriage.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia's Temporary Measures Act takes effect today.

From Free Malaysia Today, the Malaysian state of Sabah has a backlog of 12,750 coronavirus test samples.

From Vietnam Plus, donations are sent to victims of floods in central Vietnam.

From The Mainichi, a man in Kashiwazaki, Japan is arrested for allegedly abandoning a headless corpse.

From Gatestone Institute, "how to steal an election - part III".

From The Stream, the debate commission fails Americans by "steering clear" of former Vice President Biden's vulnerabilities on foreign policy.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, President Trump quickly builds the wall.  (via LifeZette)

From The Daily Signal, the Electoral College was not created to boost the power of the slave states.

From The Daily Wire, journalist Jake Tapper mocks Trump.

From HistoryNet, the Battle of Leyte involved strategic blunders from General MacArthur and miscalculations by the Japanese.

From Space Daily, an electric propulsion system for spacecraft.

From Fox News, overseas Americans worry that their votes won't get counted.

From Breitbart, according to "insider documents", associates of Hunter Biden helped a Chinese military contractor to acquire a dual-use manufacturer in Michigan.

And from The Peedmont, Biden gives answers in the form of a question and complains that his buzzer doesn't work.

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