Friday Fuss - Part 2

As a cold Friday hangs around, here are some more things going on:

From Morocco World News, Morocco's gendarmerie plans to use drones to monitor the country's highways.

From Hürriyet Daily News, the Turkish government asks for Patriot missiles due to the situation in the Syrian region of Idlib.

From Turkish Minute, four Turks linked to ISIS reportedly escape from a prison camp in Syria and are resettled in Turkey.

From Rûdaw, Yezidis protest the conviction and death sentence given to a Yezidi murder suspect.

From In-Cyprus, an "ombudsman" in north Cyprus vindicates a Greek Cypriot whose property was given to a Turkish settler.

From The Syrian Observer, ISIS personnel return to Deir ez-Zor, Syria and impose taxes.

From Arutz Sheva, Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz promises to resign if he is indicted while serving as prime minister.

From The Times Of Israel, one of 11 people returning to Israel from the ship quarantined in Japan tests positive for the coronavirus, becoming the first case in Israel.

From The Jerusalem Post, Lebanon reports its first case of the coronavirus.

From YNetNews, an East Jerusalem woman is detained after an attempted stabbing.

From the Egpyt Independent, Egypt starts building a 250-megawatt wind power plant.

From Egypt Today, Egypt and Greece seek to cooperate more on maritime tourism.

From StepFeed, Egypt bans the musical genre "Mahraganat" because of one song.

From The New Arab, a female Saudi Arabian rapper originally from Eritrea faces arrest and racism for her YouTube video praising Meccan women.  (What is this "freedom of expression" you speak of?)

From Radio Farda, Iran confirms four deaths from the coronavirus.

From Dawn, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan appoints a three-member committee to investigate a recent nationwide increase in sugar prices.

From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani government forbids a South Korea-based company to import raw materials from India into Pakistan.

From Pakistan Today, according to Imran, Pakistan's difficult times are "over".

From Khaama Press, the U.S. and the Taliban agree on a date to sign their peace deal.

From The Hans India, according to an opinion column, opposition to India's Citizenship Act is based on malice rather than on ignorance.

From the Hindustan Times, a date is set for the construction of a temple to the deity Rama in Ayodhya, India.

From ANI, the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Waqf Board will meet to discuss how to use their site in Ayodhya.

From India Today, all 77 people kept in isolation wards in the Indian state of Maharashtra test negative for the coronavirus.

From the Dhaka Tribune, thousands of Indians and Bangladeshis gather at a no-man's land to pay tribute to heroes from the 1952 Language Movement.

From the Daily Mirror, Chinese workers quarantined in Sri Lanka due to fears of the coronavirus go back to back to their jobs.

From the Colombo Page, a Sri Lankan parliamentary committee recommends integrating all madrasses in the country into its common education system.

From the Daily Mail, a lesbian couple from Saudi Arabia are granted asylum in the U.K. and declare their love on Arabic-language television.

From Breitbart, an imam in Gothenburg, Sweden is criticized for comparing FGM to sex transition surgery.

From The Jakarta Post, concerns are raised about growing conservatism in Indonesian public universities.  (Someone is worried about free-market economics, limited government, and the rejection of identity politics?  Obviously, that's not the "conservatism" that the article discusses, but a relatively strict application of Islamic traditions.  Still, I find it interesting how the term is used for different phenomena.)

From The Straits Times, 10 more coronavirus patients are discharged from hospitals in Singapore.

From the Borneo Post, according to Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismael, Malaysia has no plan to ban Chinese tourists from entering.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia's domestic trade and consumer affairs ministry expects manufacturers to produce 10 million face masks in a week.

From The Mainichi, a Japanese health official gets in hot water for joking about the coronavirus and Godzilla.

And from Gatestone Institute, Palestinians condemn the U.S. for offering to help them.