🌐 World News for February 10, 2021
English-language news from every country on the planet EXCEPT FOR the United States
Crime and Punishment
🇲🇽 Mexico: 12 officers ordered to stand trial for the massacre of 19 migrants in Tamaulipas
🇳🇴 Norway: Five people charged in Boligbygg corruption case
🇯🇵 Japan: High school student arrested for sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl at a shopping mall
🇫🇯 Fiji: 69 police officers were charged with crimes in 2020
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Gunmen kidnap 3 travelers in Osun
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Bandit leader behind Kankara boys abduction surrenders
🇬🇾 Guyana: Police officer robbed of his motorcycle at knife-point
🇦🇺 Australian High Court rules prisoners can be kept in jail forever
🇵🇸 New ICC ruling ‘opens the door’ for justice in occupied Palestine
Guns
🇸🇦🇦🇪🇾🇪 Yemen: Houthis will cease attacks on Saudi Arabia only on one condition
🇨🇳🇮🇷🇷🇺 Iran, China, and Russia to carry out joint maneuvers in the Indian Ocean
🇲🇿 Mozambique sees militia violence dwindle as the military gains steam
Un/Diplomacy
🇪🇺🇾🇪 European Parliament proposes an initiative for a ceasefire in Yemen
🇪🇺🇷🇺 Russia is ready to mend ties with the EU
🇳🇿 New Zealand's Prime Minister says decision to leave Pacific Islands Forum "regrettable"
🇻🇺 Vanuatu: Regenvanu calls for action to help Pacific regionalism
🇦🇫🇵🇰 Pakistan-Afghan border fencing work reviewed
🇵🇰 Five Afghan and Indian spies remanded in Pakistan
🇷🇺🇹🇷 Train from Turkey arrives in Russia for the first time
🇨🇺 African Union condemned the US blockade against Cuba
🇪🇬🇵🇸 Egypt reopens border crossing to the Gaza Strip
Politics
🇰🇪 Kenya: Hustler ideology good for economic growth
🇿🇼 The case for a Zimbabwean revolution: Mnangagwa’s empty promises and blatant lies
🇬🇳 Guinea: Opposition leader Mamadi Conde sentenced to five years in prison
🇹🇷 Turkey unveils space program with a mission to the moon
🇰🇭 Cambodia to get a completely new city for $16 billion
🇸🇧 Solomon Islands: PM pays final tribute to Paul Tovua
🇲🇲 Fraught talks preceded coup by Myanmar army
🇭🇹 Haiti's president tries to oust judges close to opposition amid political gridlock
🇬🇾 ExxonMobil and partners pump $100 million into Guyana
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea: Second major LNG gas project finally approved
🏴 Scotland: Alex Salmond inquiry thrown into turmoil following MSPs’ negative dossier vote
🇸🇩 Sudan’s new cabinet to be sworn in after protests
🇧🇿 Belize: Tough decisions ahead for the new government
🇺🇬 Uganda: Substantiality: The test which will lift or sink Kyagulanyi’s petition
🇺🇬 Uganda: MPs considering a constitutional amendment to recognize the Maragoli tribe
🇳🇿 New Zealand: Health Ministry conducting an urgent review into the Otago water contamination crisis
Tyranny
🇹🇹 PCA reviews video of Bharatt murder suspect beaten to death by Trinidad police
🇬🇧 British pianist forced to pay fine for dumping leaves in woods
🇧🇧 Nurses stage sick-out in Barbados
🇪🇹 Ethiopia: Government approves 'first step' towards Tigray emergency assistance
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe: Hwange villagers, Chinese investors in stand-off over coal project
Abuse
🇯🇵 Japanese opposition lawmakers dress in white to protest Mori's sexist remarks
🇳🇿 New Zealand: Maori Party leader "allowed" to speak in Parliament without wearing a necktie
Pirates
🇳🇬 Nigerian soldier killed in Bayelsa by suspected oil pirates
🇸🇹 Pirates attack oil tanker in the Gulf of Guinea
Herders vs. Farmers
🇳🇬 Sunday Igboho says the Nigerian government has frozen his bank accounts
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Southeast governors not serious with open grazing laws
Plants and Animals
🇰🇪 Kenya: Why 11 rhinos died during relocation to Tsavo park
🇰🇪 Kenya: Tourism, fishing sectors hit as Lake Nakuru chokes on filth
Silicon Overlords
📱 Facebook hires ex-NATO press officer and social media censor Ben Nimmo as intel strategist
Propaganda
🇵🇱 Poland: Historians lose Holocaust libel suit
🇺🇦 Three other countries besides Ukraine which censor TV channels
🇨🇳 Claims of Chinese 'debt-trap diplomacy' are propaganda
🇨🇳 Covid origins still a complete mystery as WHO's pretend investigation in China comes to an end
🇺🇳 The WHO's Covid shame
🇨🇳🇬🇧 How China bought Britain's universities
Discovery
🔎 Evidence of Iron Age settlement discovered on a remote Scottish island
🚀🇦🇪 Hope probe enters orbit around Mars
📖 Is Westernization fact or fiction? The case of Japan and the US
Climate
🇳🇵 Rising heat and snow-bare peaks chill Nepal's mountain economy
Other
🇸🇿 eSwatini is tired of putting Western medicine on a pedestal
🇫🇯 Fiji: Mother identifies the body of her missing 3-year-old child
🇹🇭 Thailand: Fire roars through Karen refugee camp
🇸🇸 South Sudan issues new banknotes
🇳🇬 Nigeria: 'Noma, a disease that should not exist anymore'
🇰🇪 Despite the ban, plastic bags now more popular than ever in Kenya
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