๐ World News for February 11, 2021
English-language news from every country on the planet EXCEPT for the United States
Crime and Punishment
๐ซ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฝ In Paris, Christie's auction house sells off looted Mexican antiquities to wealthy elites
๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria: Landlady's daughter beats tenant to death over electricity bill
๐น๐น Trinidad: Man and woman charged in connection with Bharatt's murder
๐ซ๐ท France: Marine Le Pen in court for her tweets
๐บ๐ฌ Uganda: Gen. Muhoozi in Karamoja over rampant killings
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia: Four years after beating a cop to death, British man is going home
๐ซ๐ฏ Fiji: Suspended sentence for juvenile convicted of raping 8-year-old girl
๐ฟ๐ผ Zimbabwe: Rushwaya bounces back as ZMF President
๐ง๐ท Brazilian court to try Marielle Franco's murderers
Guns
๐ฒ๐ฑ Mali: MINUSCA forces attacked in Kerena
๐จ๐ซ Central African Republic: When will the crisis end?
๐ธ๐ณ Senegal says troops overran rebel camps in Casamance
๐ฐ๐ช Frustration mounts in northern Kenya as Al-Shabaab threats grow
๐ฒ๐ฟ Mozambique: Cabo Delgado war pushing drug trade south to Nampula
๐บ๐ฌ Uganda: Child victim, soldier, war criminal - unpacking Dominic Ongwen's journey
Un/Diplomacy
๐ณ๐ด๐บ๐ณ UN tries to bully Norway into taking in ISIS refugees
๐จ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ช Ireland: China should release businessman as Lunar New Year โgestureโ, says TD
๐จ๐ณ๐ต๐ญ 'China is watching': the Philippines won't join naval drills in contested waters
๐ฎ๐ท๐ฐ๐ท One of the sailors aboard the South Korean oil tanker seized in Iran heading home
๐ฒ๐ฒ๐น๐ญ Myanmar's leader writes to Thailand's PM
๐ผ๐ธ Samoa goes public with a bid for USP
Politics
๐ผ๐ธ Samoa: Gun amnesty program comes to an end
๐น๐ญ Thailand: NACC throws ethics book at MP Pareena
๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan: Police, government employees clash in Islamabad as pay raise protest turns unruly
๐ฟ๐ฒ Zambia: Inflation would drop under Hakainde Hichilema's presidency
๐ญ๐น Haiti: Police fire tear gas on protesters in renewed clashes over disputed elections
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ฌ๐ง Panicked Boris Johnson splashes millions of taxpayers' cash on anti-Scottish independence drive
๐ณ๐ช๐ณ๐ฌ President Buhari flags off $1.96bn Nigeria-Niger rail project
๐ณ๐ฆ Namibia: 'Virtual' Geingob escapes Fishrot heat
๐ธ๐ป El Salvador: Lawmakers urge President Bukele's impeachment
๐ณ๐ฟ Loosening of the tie rules: Who dumped their neckwear in New Zealand's Parliament?
๐ฌ๐ง Matt Hancockโs NHS power grab
๐จ๐ณ Will China's millennials ever rebel?
Tyranny
๐ฌ๐ท Greece: Female MP assaulted by police in Attica
๐ง๐ฉ Bangladesh: When will authorities clean up their act?
๐ช๐น Ethiopia: 3.8 million people starving in Tigray
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq: The Barzani clan's oil strategy
๐น๐น Trinidad's gangster police chief continues to demonstrate his ignorance of the law
๐น๐น Trinidad: Police have now murdered two suspects in Andrea Bharatt case
๐ฉ๐ช Germany: Police handcuff an 11-year-old Gypsy child with three broken ribs
๐ธ๐ฆ Saudi womenโs rights activist walks free after three years
๐ง๐ผ Botswana's death row executions draw criticism
๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon was 'lucky', says German firm clearing blast-hit port of Beirut
Abuse
๐ฏ๐ต Japan: Olympics chief Mori to resign over sexist comments
Herders vs. Farmers
๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria: Inside the Igangan abductions, killings that exposed Oyoโs herder crisis
Plants and Animals
๐ฌ The oceans are becoming an unbearably noisy place for marine life
๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand: Woman tied a horse to a tree and left it to starve for a month
Silicon Overlords
๐ธ๐ฆ Twitter purges accounts of Saudi political prisoners
Propaganda
๐ต๐ฑ The Holocaust and Poland's good reputation
๐ต๐ฑ Poland's independent media launch press blackout protest campaign
๐ซ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฑ France struggling to maintain propaganda campaign in Mali
๐ฒ๐ฒ Ten days after the coup in Myanmar, and there is already a color revolution countering it
Discovery
๐ญ Astronomers confirm the orbit of the most distant object ever observed in our solar system
๐ญ Scientists detect water vapor emanating from Mars
๐ First audio recording of the sound produced by an Upper Paleolithic seashell horn
๐ On the origin of our species
Climate
๐ 7.7-magnitude earthquake generates small South Pacific tsunami
Other
๐ฑ๐พ Libya rescues over 1,500 migrants off its coast in one week
๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexico: In the remote farmlands of Morelos, wildlife can take you by surprise
๐ณ๐ฌ Cryptocurrency: Regulate not ban, experts advise Central Bank of Nigeria
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: Antitrust authority exposes price cartel in building management
๐น๐ท Turkey: 700-year-old Genoese castle belongs to heirs of Ottoman pasha, court rules
๐น๐น Men are not the problem in Trinidad and Tobago
๐ฌ Physicists discuss threats facing departments and how faculty can respond
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