🌐 World News for February 11, 2021
English-language news from every country on the planet EXCEPT for the United States
Crime and Punishment
🇫🇷🇲🇽 In Paris, Christie's auction house sells off looted Mexican antiquities to wealthy elites
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Landlady's daughter beats tenant to death over electricity bill
🇹🇹 Trinidad: Man and woman charged in connection with Bharatt's murder
🇫🇷 France: Marine Le Pen in court for her tweets
🇺🇬 Uganda: Gen. Muhoozi in Karamoja over rampant killings
🇮🇩 Indonesia: Four years after beating a cop to death, British man is going home
🇫🇯 Fiji: Suspended sentence for juvenile convicted of raping 8-year-old girl
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe: Rushwaya bounces back as ZMF President
🇧🇷 Brazilian court to try Marielle Franco's murderers
Guns
🇲🇱 Mali: MINUSCA forces attacked in Kerena
🇨🇫 Central African Republic: When will the crisis end?
🇸🇳 Senegal says troops overran rebel camps in Casamance
🇰🇪 Frustration mounts in northern Kenya as Al-Shabaab threats grow
🇲🇿 Mozambique: Cabo Delgado war pushing drug trade south to Nampula
🇺🇬 Uganda: Child victim, soldier, war criminal - unpacking Dominic Ongwen's journey
Un/Diplomacy
🇳🇴🇺🇳 UN tries to bully Norway into taking in ISIS refugees
🇨🇳🇮🇪 Ireland: China should release businessman as Lunar New Year ‘gesture’, says TD
🇨🇳🇵🇭 'China is watching': the Philippines won't join naval drills in contested waters
🇮🇷🇰🇷 One of the sailors aboard the South Korean oil tanker seized in Iran heading home
🇲🇲🇹🇭 Myanmar's leader writes to Thailand's PM
🇼🇸 Samoa goes public with a bid for USP
Politics
🇼🇸 Samoa: Gun amnesty program comes to an end
🇹🇭 Thailand: NACC throws ethics book at MP Pareena
🇵🇰 Pakistan: Police, government employees clash in Islamabad as pay raise protest turns unruly
🇿🇲 Zambia: Inflation would drop under Hakainde Hichilema's presidency
🇭🇹 Haiti: Police fire tear gas on protesters in renewed clashes over disputed elections
🏴🇬🇧 Panicked Boris Johnson splashes millions of taxpayers' cash on anti-Scottish independence drive
🇳🇪🇳🇬 President Buhari flags off $1.96bn Nigeria-Niger rail project
🇳🇦 Namibia: 'Virtual' Geingob escapes Fishrot heat
🇸🇻 El Salvador: Lawmakers urge President Bukele's impeachment
🇳🇿 Loosening of the tie rules: Who dumped their neckwear in New Zealand's Parliament?
🇬🇧 Matt Hancock’s NHS power grab
🇨🇳 Will China's millennials ever rebel?
Tyranny
🇬🇷 Greece: Female MP assaulted by police in Attica
🇧🇩 Bangladesh: When will authorities clean up their act?
🇪🇹 Ethiopia: 3.8 million people starving in Tigray
🇮🇶 Iraq: The Barzani clan's oil strategy
🇹🇹 Trinidad's gangster police chief continues to demonstrate his ignorance of the law
🇹🇹 Trinidad: Police have now murdered two suspects in Andrea Bharatt case
🇩🇪 Germany: Police handcuff an 11-year-old Gypsy child with three broken ribs
🇸🇦 Saudi women’s rights activist walks free after three years
🇧🇼 Botswana's death row executions draw criticism
🇱🇧 Lebanon was 'lucky', says German firm clearing blast-hit port of Beirut
Abuse
🇯🇵 Japan: Olympics chief Mori to resign over sexist comments
Herders vs. Farmers
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Inside the Igangan abductions, killings that exposed Oyo’s herder crisis
Plants and Animals
🐬 The oceans are becoming an unbearably noisy place for marine life
🇳🇿 New Zealand: Woman tied a horse to a tree and left it to starve for a month
Silicon Overlords
🇸🇦 Twitter purges accounts of Saudi political prisoners
Propaganda
🇵🇱 The Holocaust and Poland's good reputation
🇵🇱 Poland's independent media launch press blackout protest campaign
🇫🇷🇲🇱 France struggling to maintain propaganda campaign in Mali
🇲🇲 Ten days after the coup in Myanmar, and there is already a color revolution countering it
Discovery
🔭 Astronomers confirm the orbit of the most distant object ever observed in our solar system
🔭 Scientists detect water vapor emanating from Mars
🐚 First audio recording of the sound produced by an Upper Paleolithic seashell horn
🔎 On the origin of our species
Climate
🌊 7.7-magnitude earthquake generates small South Pacific tsunami
Other
🇱🇾 Libya rescues over 1,500 migrants off its coast in one week
🇲🇽 Mexico: In the remote farmlands of Morelos, wildlife can take you by surprise
🇳🇬 Cryptocurrency: Regulate not ban, experts advise Central Bank of Nigeria
🇫🇮 Finland: Antitrust authority exposes price cartel in building management
🇹🇷 Turkey: 700-year-old Genoese castle belongs to heirs of Ottoman pasha, court rules
🇹🇹 Men are not the problem in Trinidad and Tobago
🔬 Physicists discuss threats facing departments and how faculty can respond
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