As the warm sunny first day of Fall slides into some cloud cover and cooler temperatures, here are some more things going on:
From Morocco World News, a group of Moroccan activists publish a manifesto against penalizing abortion and extramarital sex.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish air force planes fly over Syria in anti-ISIS campaign.
From Turkish Minute, a social media user gets 12 years in prison for insulting Turkish President Erdoğan. (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)
From Rûdaw, persistence pays off for Iraqi Kurdish female entrepreneurs.
From In-Cyprus, after the travel company Thomas Cook collapses, Cyprus issues a travel advisory.
From The Syrian Observer, a look at what happened this past weekend.
From Arutz Sheva, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Gantz agree to continue talks to form a unity government for Israel.
From The Times Of Israel, Netanyahu now has 55 backers while Gantz has 54.
From The Jerusalem Post, the Palestinian Authority blames Israel for the cancer death of a terrorist while in prison.
From YNetNews, Yeshiva students are arrested in Europe for allegedly possessing khat, which is legal in Israel.
From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel discuss terrorism and illegal migration.
From StepFeed, a mosque, a synagogue and a church will be in the same building, to be constructed in the UAE.
From Radio Farda, will Iranian President Rouhani have a chance for diplomacy or just a restricted visit to New York?
From IranWire, FIFA gives Iran an ultimatum, demanding that woman are allowed into soccer stadiums.
From Dawn, U.S. President Trump renews his offer to mediate on Kashmir, if both India and Pakistan want him to.
From The Express Tribune, according to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, India's behavior in Kashmir poses a threat to regional peace.
From Pakistan Today, the collapse of talks between the U.S. and the Taliban is a "blow to Pakistan".
From Khaama Press, dozens of foreign terrorists fighting for the Taliban are killed or detained in Afghanistan's Helmand province.
From The Hans India, speaking at the U.N. climate summit, Indian Prime Minister Modi says that the world is not doing enough. (In a sense I agree. From what I can tell, the world hasn't paid too much attention to China's carbon dioxide emissions, which far and away lead the world.)
From the Hindustan Times, according to Union minister Nitin Gadkari, revoking Article 370 has solved all of Jammu and Kashmir's problems.
From ANI, all drones seized by government authorities in India will be handed over to either of two ministries.
From India Today, an explosion at a scrap dealer's house kills two people and injures five others.
From the Daily Mirror, a new intercity train will travel between Colombo and Beliatta, Sri Lanka.
From the Colombo Page, tourist travel in Sri Lanka recovers after the Easter Sunday attacks.
From Eurasia Review, has ISIS found a successor to Al-Baghdadi?
From Arab News, the 1979 attack on the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
From The Jakarta Post, new unrest erupts in Wamena, Papua, Indonesia.
From The Straits Times, Hong Kong cleans up after the latest round of protests.
From the Borneo Post, according to Malaysia's primary industries minister, the palm oil industry is not to blame for the haze currently hanging around the region.
From Free Malaysia Today, a pollution expert calls for a regional law to prevent haze.
From China Daily, China sends two satellites into space.
From The Mainichi, Japan fails to track the trajectories of some recently launched North Korean missiles.
And from Gatestone Institute, Indian Prime Minister Modi's "welcome move on Kashmir".
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