As a mild Tuesday slips into evening and toward the State of the Union address, here are some more things going on:
From Morocco World News, the Moroccan government moves to redefine the country's maritime borders.
From Hürriyet Daily News, the main Turkish opposition party proposes a five-article solution to the standoff with Syria and Russia.
From Turkish Minute, according to an interior ministry spokesman, Turkey detained 1,768 suspects for alleged Gülen links during this past January.
From Rûdaw, a documentary by a German woman of Yezidi origin helps 1,000 Yezidi women find safety in Germany.
From In-Cyprus, the mayor of Famagusta, Cyprus claims that his city can be a bridge to an overall solution for the entire island.
From The Syrian Observer, a Quds Force commander is sent to his virgins near Aleppo, Syria.
From Arutz Sheva, according to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, his Likud party has to win the upcoming election for sovereignty to be applied in Judea and Samaria.
From The Times Of Israel, Palestinian leaders call a meeting between Israeli and Sudanese officials a "stab in the back".
From The Jerusalem Post, the Israeli Navy and the security organization Shin Bet stop an attempt to smuggle weapons into Gaza from the Sinai.
From YNetNews, according to Yisrael Beyetenu Chairman Avigdor Liberman, Israel's next government will not be a unity government.
From the Egypt Independent, Egypt's military is the ninth strongest in the world.
From Egypt Today, according to Egypt's ambassador to China, the Egyptian diplomatic mission will not be evacuated.
From StepFeed, some university students in Lebanon don't understand what "consensual sex" is.
From The New Arab, China orders 145 million facemasks from Egypt.
From Radio Farda, Iran-backed fighters in Syria claim to have been deployed against protesters in Iran during November.
From IranWire, some families of the victims of the crash of the Ukrainian airliner in Iran blame the Revolutionary Guards.
From Dawn, four civilians in Azad Jammu and Kashmir are injured by allegedly "unprovoked" firing from the Indian side of the Line Of Control. (Pakistan refers to the part of Jammu and Kashmir on its side of the LOC as azad, which means "free".)
From The Express Tribune, Pakistan's foreign office summons an Indian diplomat to register a protest against the firing across the LOC.
From Pakistan Today, Pakistan and Malaysia sign an extradition treaty.
From Khaama Press, Taliban terrorists kill donkeys that were carrying food.
From The Hans India, Indians visiting Bhutan will pay a "sustainable development fee".
From the Hindustan Times, a Dalit groom's wedding procession takes place under police protection due to the fear of protests from upper caste villagers in the Indian state of Rajasthan. (The Dalit were known as "untouchables" and regarded as not belonging to any of the four Indian caste groups.)
From ANI, a counterfeit Indian currency racket is busted in the city of Hyderabad.
From India Today, for the fifth consecutive day, police question at a Shaheen school in Bidar, Karnataka, India over an anti-Citizenship Act play. (What is this "freedom of expression" you speak of?)
From the Dhaka Tribune, Indian Border Security Force personnel shoot a farmer near the border in the Bangladeshi district of Kushtia.
From the Daily Mirror, the Streatham, London attacker has relatives in Sri Lanka. (The article cites The Times Of India, but the link appears to be messed up.)
From the Colombo Page, 55 Sri Lankan female domestic workers return from Kuwait.
From Struggle For Hindu Existence, a suspected ISIS operative throws a shoe at a Hindu judge in a court in Kolkata, India.
From Palestinian Media Watch, a top Palestinian Authority officials threatens that anyone who accepts U.S. President Trump's peace plan "will pay the price of treason".
From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia's ban on flights to and from China strands thousands of Chinese tourists on the island of Bali.
From The Straits Times, Singapore records its first local transmissions of the coronavirus, among four women who had not traveled to China.
From the Borneo Post, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia is quiet without Chinese tourists being present.
From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysian airports sanitize commonly touched surfaces to counter the spread of the coronavirus.
From The Mainichi, Japan considers expanding its ban on foreigners who have visited the Chinese province of Hubei to include visitors to other parts of China.
And from Gatestone Institute, the real reason Israeli Arabs don't want to live in "Palestine".
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