🌐 World News for February 12, 2021
English-language news from every country on the planet EXCEPT FOR the United States
Crime and Punishment
🇩🇪 Germany: Syrian citizen charged in Dresden knife attack
🇦🇬 Antigua: Police corporal killed by suspect in police custody
🇲🇽 Mexico: Ten people killed during an outbreak of violence in Guadalajara
🇵🇰 Pakistan commutes death sentence for two mentally ill convicts
🇮🇪 Ireland: Kerry man sentenced to 14 years for raping his daughters
🇮🇪 Ireland: Investigation underway after fatal shooting in Dublin
🇩🇰 Denmark charges seven people with attempted terrorism
🇹🇭 Thailand: Army band leader gunned down at a military base
🇲🇾 Malaysia: Cops bust gang impersonating police to commit robberies
🇲🇾 Malaysia: Four suspected armed robbers killed in a shootout with police in Batu Pahat
🇨🇾 Cyprus: Man who murdered his wife and son killed a 10-year-old girl when he was 15
🇲🇹 Malta: Woman kidnaps her own daughter
🇿🇲 Zambian villagers to be compensated by British mining company for polluting the region's waterways
Guns
🇪🇹 Ethiopia's war crimes in Tigray, revealed
🇵🇰 Pakistan: Child killed in a mortar attack from Afghanistan
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe: Four Chinese nationals severely injured in clash with artisanal miners
🇸🇸 UN peacekeepers step up patrols after deadly clashes in South Sudan
🇸🇳 Senegalese army promises to resettle displaced people
Un/Diplomacy
🇲🇾🇻🇳 Malaysian coast guard detains several Vietnamese fishermen
🇨🇾🇹🇷 Turkey says it will only join Cyprus talks with the unacceptable two-state proposal
🇪🇹🇸🇩 Senior Sudanese army general inspects troops on the border with Ethiopia
🇨🇳🇪🇹 Ethiopian FM Demeke holds phone conversation with Chinese FM Wang Yi
🇲🇱 Mali peace deal signatories meet in former rebel city
🇫🇲 Pacific Islands Forum split could cost region's global role
Politics
🏴 Scotland: Why I resigned from the SNP after 20 years of membership
🇰🇼 Kuwait: MP threatens PM with grilling if Cabinet not formed in a week
🇳🇦 Air Namibia has been liquidated
🇬🇷 Greece: Mitsotakis, Tsipras clash over the education bill
🇬🇷 Greek lawmakers approve on-campus police in the contentious education bill
🇲🇲 Myanmar: Government warns anti-coup protesters to return to work
🇲🇲 Myanmar frees 23,000 inmates as protests continue
🇲🇲 Who’s culpable for Myanmar’s coup?
🇸🇧 Solomon Islands: Opposition leader calls on the government to take an informed position on the USP saga
🇬🇾 Guyana's President Ali: "There is no reason for our country to be poor"
🇸🇸 South Sudan: President wants peace with holdout group
🇽🇰 Kosovo heads to the polls on Sunday
🇷🇺 Russian President Putin is not about to fall
Tyranny
🇹🇹 Cops must not be judge, jury, and executioner in Trinidad
🇵🇸 The Palestinian Rosa Parks
🇬🇧 Lockdowns have split Britain's population in half
🇪🇹🇳🇴 Norway begs Ethiopia for access to its refugee center in Tigray
🇧🇷 Brazil: The Army and Supreme Court conspired to keep former president Lula in prison
🇵🇱 Poland: Women's rights activist charged for participating in abortion protests
Abuse
🇲🇾🇲🇲 Malaysia to hand over 1,200 refugees to Myanmar
🇹🇹 Trinidad needs to do more to protect its women and children
🇵🇦 Hundreds of migrants are stranded along the Darien Gap near Panama's border with Colombia
Herders vs. Farmers
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Too much ado about Fulani ethnic profiling
🇳🇬 Nigeria: The Fulani problem
Plants and Animals
🇰🇭 The population of rare river birds in Cambodia doubled in 5 years
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe: 30 elephants go on a rampage in Beitbridge
Silicon Overlords
📱🇷🇺 YouTube removes Russian government video about police brutality in Western countries
📱🇦🇺 Life without Google: Australia is now facing the unthinkable
📱🇲🇲 Facebook censors several government accounts in Myanmar
Propaganda
🇺🇦 Leading world mass media continue to criticize Ukrainian President Zelensky for censoring three opposition TV channels
🇲🇩 Russian peacekeepers detain TV crew in Moldova
🇨🇳🇬🇧 China bans the BBC after the UK stripped CGTN of its license
Discovery
🔎 How early megacities emerged from the jungles of Cambodia
🔬 Crows are even smarter than we thought
🔎 Ancient stone circle found in Wales ‘was dismantled and rebuilt as Stonehenge’
Other
🇬🇷 Greece: Van carrying convicted terrorist in Athens pileup
🇱🇦🇹🇭 Coconut water becomes an overnight aphrodisiac sensation in Laos and Thailand
🏴 City of London's Brexit tab rises with stock and swaps moves
🇳🇬 Banks’ borrowing from the Central Bank of Nigeria dropped 98% last year
🇸🇪 Sweden's rooftop snow clearers
🇫🇷 The Mona Lisa finally gets a break from the hordes
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