Friday Fuss - Part 2

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

From Morocco World News, Moroccan authorities ease coronavirus testing requirements for travelers.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey regards the E.U.'s conclusions on the eastern Mediterranean as "partially positive".

From Turkish Minute, a court in Ankara, Turkey orders the arrest of 17 pro-Kurdish politicians.

From Rûdaw, according to the governor of the Iraqi province of Nineveh, no one has been detained over the rocket attack in the city of Erbil.

From ArmenPress, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres calls on all sides fighting in Nagorno Kabarakh to case operations.

From In-Cyprus, a local coronavirus lockdown is threatened for Achna, Cyprus.

From The Syrian Observer, Syrian government officials reportedly want the U.S. to withdraw from Syria unconditionally.

From Arutz Sheva, according to Yamina party chairman Naftali Bennett, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has put his own interests above fighting the coronavirus.

From The Times Of Israel, Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz promises to fill the post of state attorney.

From The Jerusalem Post, according to an editorial, to stop the coronavirus pandemic, Israelis must first face its reality.

From YNetNews, Israel sees a small decrease in the number of daily new coronavirus cases.

From the Egypt Independent, the Central Bank of Egypt maintains its limit on local currency for people entering and leaving the country.

From Egypt Today, two men are detained for four days for allegedly sexually assaulting a Sudanese girl in Cairo.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, 503 people are arrested for allegedly plotting violence at an Irreecha festival in the Ethiopian region of Oromia.

From the Saudi Gazette, a week after launching its Umrah app, Saudi Arabia issues 108,041 Umrah permits.

From The New Arab, Jordan deports the husband of a Palestinian terrorist wanted in the U.S.  (If you read Arabic, read the story at Arabi 21.)

From Radio Farda, jailed Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh wins the Alternative Nobel Prize, awarded by the Right Livelihood Foundation.

From IranWire, eight Baha'is are summoned to Iran's Birjand Prison despite the country's coronavirus problems.

From Dawn, according to Foreign Office spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudri, there are no Pakistani troops fighting alongside the Azerbaijani army in Nagorno-Karabakh.

From The Express Tribune, in the area of North Waziristan, Pakistani troops send two terrorists to their virgins.

From Pakistan Today, according to its caretaker chief minister, elections will be held in the Pakistani region of Gilgit-Baltisan without help from the army.

From Khaama Press, in intra-Afghan negotiations, the Taliban indicates that it will "not allow" interference in "internal affairs".

From The Hans India, according to the director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India will likely receive a coronavirus vaccine by January of 2021.

From the Hindustan Times, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi encourages domestic coronavirus vaccine production.

From ANI, farmers in Amritsar, Punjab, India explain why they continue to burn stubble in their fields.

From India Today, the Uttar Pradesh state government police officials over the gang rape and death of a 19-year-old Dalit woman.

From the Dhaka Tribune, female Bangladeshi peacekeepers are in charge of security at a U.N.-run airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

From the Daily Mirror, a brother of a former Sri Lankan minister is released from jail due to insufficient evidence to charge him in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks.

From the Colombo Page, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa symbolically donates libraries to schools in five districts of Sri Lanka.

From Maldives Insider, British Airways will resume direct flights to the Maldive Islands on October 16th.

From the Middle East Monitor, a fatwa bans Sudan from normalizing its relations with Israel.

From The Jakarta Post, the airline Garuda Indonesia paints face masks on its planes.

From The Straits Times, Singapore reports 10 new coronavirus cases, the lowest daily total since March 12th.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia report a daily record high of 287 new coronavirus cases.

From Free Malaysia Today, the state government of Selangor offers free coronavirus tests to residents who have recently visited the state of Sabah.

From the Herald Malaysia, Christians are indeed persecuted in many parts of the world.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnam has no new coronavirus cases from community infection for 30 days.

From The Mainichi, Japan will give doses of coronavirus vaccine for free.

And from Gatestone Institute, Turkish President Erdoğan has a plan to take over the Palestinian Authority.