As Memorial Day turns sunny and warm, here are some more things going on:
From Morocco World News, Morocco will allow construction projects to resume this week.
From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Turkey has "neutralized" 1,458 terrorists in Syria and northern Iraq so far this year.
From Turkish Minute, Turkey reportedly launches a Russian-language TV channel.
From Rûdaw, advocates call on Turkish officials to release a sick child from prison in Diyarbakır, Turkey whose Kurdish politician mother was arrested.
From In-Cyprus, Cypriot police check up on restaurants and cafes after a weekend of alleged "lack of discipline".
From The Armenian Reporter, 15 coronavirus cases are confirmed at an orphanage in Yerevan, Armenia.
From Arutz Sheva, Israeli institutions working on a potential coronavirus vaccine are subjected to cyber attacks.
From The Times Of Israel, the Israeli right-wing party Yamina proposes a law that would ban the prosecution of a sitting Prime Minister.
From The Jerusalem Post, Israel and India work together to develop a fast-result coronavirus test.
From YNetNews, Israel's High Court overturns an order to demolish a terrorist's home.
From the Egypt Independent, Egypt will offer coronavirus testing in all its general hospitals.
From Egypt Today, the Egyptian ministry of petroleum, mining and mineral resources discloses its updated plan for petrochemicals.
From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopian police rescue a kidnapped two-year-old boy in the area of Gondar.
From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia will allow electronically permitted one-hour walks or jogs.
From The New Arab, hundreds of Russian and Syrian mercenaries withdraw from front lines in Libya.
From Radio Farda, Iranian authorities arrest "a large number" of people for allegedly "dancing in the streets".
From IranWire, the residents of the Iranian district of Gheyzaniyeh have no water.
From Dawn, three people, including a senior civil servant, are shot dead in the Pakistani province of North Waziristan.
From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani province of Sindh calls for recovered coronavirus patients to donate plasma.
From Pakistan Today, the Pakistani army observes Eidul Fitr in solidarities with people in Indian-held Kashmir.
From Khaama Press, Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani promises to release 2,000 Taliban prisoners.
From The Hans India, pollution returns to Hyderabad, India.
From the Hindustan Times, in an Eid outreach, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah allows 120 prisoners from the territory of Jammu and Kashmir to call home.
From ANI, Indian sahbacritter Dr. Achyuta Samanta sends 25 buses full of textbooks and fruits to tribal children staying at home in the state of Odisha. (A sabhacritter is the Indian equivalent of a U.S. congresscritter.)
From India Today, India endures its worst locust attack in 27 years.
From the Dhaka Tribune, Eid-ul-Fitr is celebrated somberly in Bangladesh due to the coronavirus.
From the Daily Mirror, a flight from Qatar to Sri Lanka is canceled after 70 previously arrived people were found to be infected with the coronavirus.
From the Colombo Page, 36 Sri Lankan workers are stranded at the Bucharest, Romania airport.
From Maldives Insider, Maldivian soldiers and company workers build a 300-bed field hospital to deal with a possible coronavirus "surge".
From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia's health minister issues guidelines for workplaces to reach a "new normal" due to the coronavirus.
From The Straits Times, the coronavirus threatens the Chinese traditions of chopsticks and family-style meals.
From the Borneo Post, Malaysian Muslims observe Aidilfitri with "homely" celebrations.
From Free Malaysia Today, the Malaysian judiciary outlines its plans for virtual court hearings.
From Vietnam Plus, ships from the Vietnamese province of Hai Duong sail to deliver litchi to the U.S., Singapore and Australia.
From The Mainichi, roses cultivated by a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb are sent to an Iran-born Japanese actress.
And from Gatestone Institute, the real virus among the Palestinians is jihad.
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