As some rather gloomy weather hangs around on the last Tuesday of April, here are some more things going on:
From Morocco World News, thousands of Moroccans sign a petition against a bill on social media use.
From Hürriyet Daily News, 755 Turkish nationals are repatriated due to the coronavirus.
From Turkish Minute, a Turkish police officer is arrested for allegedly killing a 17-year-old Syrian refugee.
From Rûdaw, artisans in Erbil, Iraq reopen their businesses.
From In-Cyprus, the Cypriot tourism sector tentatively hopes to reopen in July.
From The Syrian Observer, Doctors Without Borders claims that the Syrian regime is hindering their movements.
From Arutz Sheva, in an apparent terror attack, a woman is stabbed in Kfar Saba, Israel.
From The Times Of Israel, Israelis hold a subdued Independence Day celebration starting with a salute to medical staff.
From The Jerusalem Post, Knesset Speaker Benny Gantz gives the keynote speech at torch lighting ceremony for Israel's Independence Day.
From YNetNews, in a prerecorded speech, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin urges Israelis to stay together.
From the Egypt Independent, President Abdel al-Sisi extends Egypt's coronavirus state of emergency by three months.
From Egypt Today, a project to line its canals could save Egypt five billion cubic meters of water per year.
From the Ethiopian Monitor, the Ethiopian Road Authority signs seven road construction agreements.
From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabian banks and money transfer centers are directed to reopen.
From StepFeed, how is Saudi Arabia dealing with the coronavirus at the start of Ramadan?
From The New Arab, Lebanese protesters go back on the street as the country's economy crumbles.
From Radio Farda, Iranian authorities arrest a journalist and an editor over a cartoon mocking Supreme Leader Khamenei. (What is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)
From IranWire, more than seven percent of Iran's coronavirus victims were war veterans.
From Dawn, according to Prime Minister Imran Khan, the intensity of the coronavirus is still low in Pakistan.
From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani province of Sindh bans Ramazan gatherings due to the coronavirus.
From Pakistan Today, the commission investigating the increase in sugar prices in Pakistan gets three more weeks to submit its report.
From Khaama Press, Afghan forces prevent terrorists from bombarding Kabul with rockets.
From The Hans India, members of Tablighi Jamaat who "sinned" now claim to be "corona warriors".
From the Hindustan Times, according ministers of the Congress party, India still lacks a strategy for exiting its coronavirus lockdown.
From ANI, the Delhi Zoo kills buffalo calves to feed its canine "inmates".
From India Today, India allows asymptomatic coronavirus patients to go home for isolation.
From the Dhaka Tribune, the Dhaka Medical College Hospital will explore plasma therapy for coronavirus patients.
From the Daily Mirror, according to Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the objectives of suicide attacks go beyond killing people.
From the Colombo Page, 180 Sri Lankan naval personnel test positive for the coronavirus.
From Maldives Insider, for the first time, a female Hawksbill turtle is seen nesting at the Grand Park Kodhipparu Maldive resort.
From RAIR Foundation USA, a man who claimed to have acted "for the Islamic State" rams two motorcycle cops with his car in the Paris suburb of Colombes. (If you read French, read the story at Le Parisien.)
From The Jakarta Post, a crowdfunding effort to raise money for "made in Indonesia" ventilators reaches its goal.
From The Straits Times, Hong Kong will start easing some of its coronavirus restrictions.
From the Borneo Post, several sectors of the Malaysian economy will be permitted to resume normal operation tomorrow.
From Free Malaysia Today, a Rohingya grass cutter faces harassment in Malaysia.
From The Mainichi, frequent shallow-focus earthquakes produce risks for central Japan.
And from Gatestone Institute, Iranian mullahs use the coronavirus to heighten the country's anti-Americanism.
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