Monday, October 5, 2020

Monday Links - Part 1

On the first Monday of October, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the unintended consequences of voting my mail.

From FrontpageMag, President Trump's coronavirus case causes a spike in the left's Trump Derangement Syndrome.

From Townhall, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tests positive for the coronavirus.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Gary Peters (D-Mich) campaigns on his support for Obamacare, but opts out of it at taxpayer expense.

From the Washington Examiner, Senator Pat Toomey (D-PA) announces that he will not run for reelection in 2022.

From The Federalist, confirming SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett will not necessarily Roe v. Wade.

From American Thinker, left wingnuts treat Trump supporters in a ruff manner.

From CNS News, Trump claims to have learned a lot about the coronavirus.

From LifeZette, former Vice President Biden makes inroads with some unlikely supporters.

From NewsBusters, the hosts of Morning Joe freak out over Trump's car ride outside Walter Reed Medical Center,

From Canada Free Press, the mainstream media hide another Trump achievement, a sixth generation jet fighter.  (If you read Hungarian - that's right, Hungarian - read about the jet fighter at Index, which unlike American outlets, actually covered the story.)

From CBC News, the Canadian province of Quebec is expected to make masks mandatory at schoolyards and to shut down gyms.

From Global News, Canada repatriates an orphaned girl from a camp in Syria used for detaining members of ISIS.

From CTV News, Canada's easing of border restrictions allows a woman from the province of Ontario reunite with her British fiancé.  (My spellchecker rejects "fiance" when the "e" has no accent.)

From TeleSUR, the Guatemalan army uses trucks to return over 3,500 would-be migrants to Honduras.

From Morocco World News, the Moroccan government denies authorizing a "peace march" from Rabat to the town of Guerguerat in Western Sahara.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Erdoğan receives Libyan Prime Minister al-Sarraj in Istanbul.

From Turkish Minute, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Turkish troops have blocked a highway in Syria as Turkey's military buildup continues.

From Rûdaw, authorities in northeastern Syria hope to remove Syrians from the Al-Hol camp.

From ArmenPress, according to Armenian President Armen Sarkissian in an interview with Chinese media, Azerbaijan has stepped away from the negotiating table.  (The president's last name might be vaguely familiar.)

From In-Cyprus, violating traffic laws in Cyprus is gonna cost ya.

From The Syrian ObserverErdoğan threatens a new military operation in Syria.

From Arutz Sheva, according to Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel's current coronavirus lockdown won't ease until at least next Monday.

From The Times Of Israel, rabbis and worshipers at Jerusalem's Western Wall pray for U.S. President Trump's recovery from the coronavirus.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israel's coronavirus cabinet debates lockdown exit strategies.

From YNetNews, for the first time since the Abraham Accords were signed, a rocket is launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel.

From the Egypt Independent, according to tourism minister Khaled Al-Anani, the Grand Egyptian Museum will house Pharaoh Tutankhamun's mask.

From Egypt Today, cruises on the Nile between the Egyptian governorates of Luxor and Aswan resume after a seven-month hiatus.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the Ethiopian government bans dam overflights.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabian King Salman approves uniform emergency codes.

From The New Arab, American cyclist Lance Armstrong leads a group riding through Beirut to raise money for the victims of the port explosion.

From Radio Farda, families of the victims of a mass execution of prisoners in Iran in 1988 demand answers.

From IranWire, an Iranian former cleric in prison goes on a hunger strike.

From Dawn, the Islamabad High Court rejects a petition to ban speeches by former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

From The Express Tribune, Nawaz Sharif and other leaders in his party PML-N are booked for allegedly "conspiring against the state and its institutions".

From Pakistan Today, the PML-N party appoints Mohammad Zabair as a spokesman for Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz.

From Khaama Press, Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghana discusses "bilateral relations" with Kuwaiti Emir Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

From The Hans India, India's Air Force Day parade will include a flight by Rafale jet fighters.

From the Hindustan Times, India successfully tests missile-assisted torpedoes used to target submarines at long range.

From ANI, authorities at India's Indira Gandhi International Airport arrest two foreigners for allegedly having fake travel documents.

From India Today, police in Delhi arrest two members of the Salman Tyahi gang.

From the Dhaka Tribune, three people are held in Dhaka for allegedly making face academic certificates.

From the Daily Mirror, security is strengthened a Sri Lankan immigration detention center after a person in the area is found to be coronavirus-positive.

From the Colombo Page, former Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena denies any responsibility for the Easter Sunday terror attacks.

From the Maldives Insider, the Maldive Islands welcomed over 9,500 foreign travelers in September.

From Jewish News Syndicate, according to a Qatari sociologist, Jews are trying to destroy Palestinian society by banning child marriage.

From The Jakarta Post, police in Greater Jakarta prevent labor unions from protesting against Indonesia's recently passed omnibus bill on jobs.

From The Straits Times, Singaporean residents collect 7.6 free reusable face masks.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysian Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, after attending a meeting with a minister who tested positive for the coronavirus, self-isolates a works from home.

From Free Malaysia Today, an assemblyman of the Malaysian state of Selangor and his family test positive for the coronavirus after visiting the state of Sabah.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnam honors its 30 biggest tax payers.

From The Mainichi, a Japanese cabinet minister is sent an envelop containing a threatening note and a boxcutter blade.

From Gatestone Institute, getting into another war won't do Turkey any good.

From The Stream, again, why so many Evangelicals support President Trump.

From The American Conservative, we must choose sides with the police or with chaos.

From Military History Matters, an "enormous" bunker system from World War I is found beneath a village in the Belgian region of Flanders.

From Space Daily, a sensor with 100,000 times more sensitivity than currently available sensors could help bolster thermal imaging.

From Fox News, the Dallas hair salon owner who refused to close during a coronavirus lockdown is in a Republican runoff for a seat in the Texas state senate.

From WPVI-TV, although he may not be out of the proverbial woods, Trump will leave Walter Reed Medical Center and return to the White House.

From The Daily Wire, Trump's return to the White House is scheduled for 6 p.m. this evening.

From Breitbart, Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post opposes Trump's return to the White House.

From the New York Post, Tropical Storm Delta could become another hurricane before hitting the U.S.

And from The Babylon Bee, Trump adds a "black lives matter" sticker to his SUV to that the media can't accuse him of spreading the coronavirus.

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