As a warm Thursday heads toward evening, here are some more things going on:
From The Mainichi, Japanese police find increasing numbers of fake residence cards in the possession of foreigners overstaying their visas. (Even in Japan, illegal aliens are not "undocumented" but falsely documented.)
From Vietnam Plus, three more Vietnamese officers will join U.N. peacekeeping missions.
From the Borneo Post, healthcare frontline workers deal with thick jungles in the Malaysian state of Sabah.
From Free Malaysia Today, six new coronavirus clusters are detected in the Malaysian states of Sabah, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan and Melaka.
From The Straits Times, the drug Remdesivir remains an option against the coronavirus in Singapore.
From The Jakarta Post, two women are publicly flogged in the Indonesian province of Aceh for online gambling.
From Maldives Insider, the Maldive Islands is promoted at a virtual travel show in India.
From the Daily Mirror, forest land is set on fire near Vavuniya, Sri Lanka.
From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan parliament passes the 20th Amendment to the country's Constitution.
From the Dhaka Tribune, could Dhaka and other Bangladeshi cities be changed by roads made from recycled plastics?
From The Hans India, India successfully tests an anti-tank guided missile called Nag. (In the future, going against the Indian military will come with a risked of getting Nagged.)
From the Hindustan Times, the number of Indians working in Oman has decreased by 11.2 percent this year.
From ANI, an Indian government team visits areas affected by flooding in the city of Hyderabad.
From India Today, India reinstates all of its visas, except those in three categories.
From Khaama Press, the speaker of Afghanistan's lower parliament house is due to visit Pakistan.
From Dawn, Pakistanis poke fun a posts about a "civil war" by Indians on social media.
From The Express Tribune, authorities in the Pakistani province of Balochistan seize a cache of explosive materials belonging to the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan terrorist group.
From Pakistan Today, the Pakistani government denies forcing the province of Sindh to arrest retired Captain Safdar Awan.
From Radio Farda, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani doesn't care about who wins the U.S. presidential election.
From IranWire, Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, recently released from prison, promises that she will "continue to fight".
From The New Arab, Saad Hariri is named Lebanese prime minister for the fourth time.
From the Saudi Gazette, the Hajj Terminal at the airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia prepares to receive foreign Umrah pilgrims.
From the Egypt Independent, the Nine Pyramids Lounge in Cairo receives its first tourists.
From Egypt Today, the E.U. announces water cooperation with Egypt and supports more dam talks.
From Arutz Sheva, no one knows the condition of Palestinian Authority official Saeb Erekat, currently in the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.
From The Times Of Israel, two rockets are fired from the Gaza Strip toward Ashkelon, Israel, with one being intercepted.
From The Jerusalem Post, Israel's first F-35 pilot becomes the deputy commander of the IAF's 116th squadron.
From YNetNews, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok is ready for ties with Israel, if Sudan's parliament approves.
From The Syrian Observer, Turkish vehicles withdraw from a base in Morek, Syria.
From In-Cyprus, Cypriot citizens demand the resignation of politicians involved in an illegal passport case.
From ArmenPress, according to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Armenia is ready for compromise with Azerbaijan, but not with terrorists.
From Rûdaw, Iraq enforces its gun control laws.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey decides to extend the exploration vessel Oruç Reis's mission in the eastern Mediterranean for five days.
From Turkish Minute, according to Vice President Fuat Oktay, Turkey will sends solders to Azerbaijan if they are requested.
From Morocco World News, King Mohammed VI calls for Morocco to have a "timely transition" to renewable sources of energy.
From Gatestone Institute, the Palestinians show "what failure looks like".
And from Michael Smith News, someone in France grows a proverbial pair.
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