🌐 World News for February 15, 2021
English-language news from every country on the planet EXCEPT FOR the United States
Crime and Punishment
🇲🇼 Malawi: Robbers using crying babies to lure people out of their homes
🇯🇵 Japan: 21-year-old woman arrested for sending hundreds of nude selfies to a woman in her 70s
🇯🇴 Jordan: Man sentenced to two years for grabbing a woman's genitals in Amman
🇳🇴 🔴 Norwegian citizen sentenced to death in Somaliland could be shot within a few days
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Kidnapped NTA reporter regains freedom
🇹🇷 Turkey: 14th-century Hutura Hagios church looted by treasure hunters
🇲🇾 Malaysia: Jho Low’s instructions on 1MDB came from PM
Guns
🇾🇪 Dozens of people killed in overnight clashes in northern Yemen
🇮🇶🇹🇷 Turkey identifies citizens executed by PKK terrorists in Iraq
🇮🇶🇹🇷 Kurdish forces in Iraq execute 13 Turkish soldiers and police officers
🇪🇹🇸🇩 Sudan says Ethiopian forces have crossed the border
🇮🇱🇸🇾 Israeli airstrikes intercepted over Damascus, Syria
🇫🇷 vs 🇧🇫🇹🇩🇲🇱🇲🇷🇳🇪 President Macron to (virtually) meet Sahel leaders as France mulls troop drawdown
🇰🇷🇺🇸 US and South Korea close to striking defense cost-sharing deal
🇵🇭🇺🇸 Duterte tells the USA "you have to pay" to station troops in the Philippines
🇸🇴 Somalia: Suicide bomber strikes near the presidential palace in Mogadishu
🇸🇴 Somalia: Gunmen kill three women in Mogadishu
🏴☠️ Pirates
🇹🇷 Kidnapped Turkish sailors return home, recount torture and intimidation
Un/Diplomacy
🇦🇪🇺🇦 Ukraine, UAE agree to combat extremists jointly
🇰🇪🇸🇴 ICJ rejects Kenya's request to delay Somalia maritime case
🇹🇩🇺🇸 US Embassy in Chad asks local politician to vacate the premises
Politics
🔴 Catalonia election: Socialists win, but separatists expand majority
🇽🇰 Early results point to Kosovo opposition party win in parliamentary vote
🇲🇾 PM Muhyiddin launches long-term blueprint for Malaysian unity
🇲🇲 Armored vehicles deployed to major Myanmar cities after mass protests
🇵🇪 Peru's foreign minister quits after secret vaccination
🏴 Scotland: Prominent supporter of Alex Salmond to take legal action against Crown Office
🇲🇼 Malawi: Minister Kaliati calls for a mindset change on street beggars
🇳🇬 Nigerian President Buhari: "I won't allow any religious, ethnic group to stoke hatred, violence against others"
🇨🇬 Congo: President Nguesso visits Plateaux region ahead of elections
🇲🇺 'Democracy does not work' says Mauritian opposition leader Arvin Boolell
🇮🇳 Farmers’ protest in India – the price of failure will be immense
Tyranny
🇩🇰 PM wants everyone in Denmark to take multiple Covid-19 tests every week
🇮🇶 More than 600 people in Iraq have been killed in protest-related violence since 2019
🇪🇹 Ethiopia: Police seize more than 2 million hoarded jerrycans of palm oil in Addis Ababa
🇪🇹 Ethiopia: Dozens of protesters killed in Tigray
🇺🇬 Uganda: ‘They’re abducting everyone’
🇺🇬 Can Ugandan children do without kindergarten?
🇺🇬 Ugandans are dead stuck with the Uganda that sucks
🇹🇹 Trinidad: Law body wants foreign cops to probe death of Bharatt murder suspect
🇸🇬 Singapore: Public servant arrested for sending Whatsapp message
🇭🇹 Thousands of Haitians protest, alleging new dictatorship
🇳🇬 'We want justice': Nigerians protest at Lekki shooting site
🇬🇧 Zero Covid is an authoritarian fantasy
🇬🇧 We DID have a sensible Covid plan... but copied a police state instead
Abuse
🇲🇾 Malaysia: Minister wants police to conduct a probe on allegations of sexual harassment at roadblocks
🇪🇹 Ethiopia: 'Incomplete but troubling picture' reveals the impact of the Tigray crisis on children
🇳🇿 New Zealand: Ants found crawling on the face of care home resident in Auckland
Herders vs. Farmers
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Bauchi governor explains comments on herders carrying Ak-47 rifles for self-defense
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Northern governors must act to stem the herders' crisis
Plants and Animals
🔬 Strange life found on seafloor in the dark beneath the Antarctic ice shelf
Silicon Overlords
📱🇦🇺 Tech giants 'close' to deals with Australian media
📱 Facebook is rejecting ads for stylish clothing made for people with disabilities
📱 Mark Zuckerberg told staff that Facebook needs to 'inflict pain' on Apple
Propaganda
🇪🇹 Ethiopia: Some international organizations are making exaggerated claims about Tigray
📰 New York Times selectively misquotes scientists to fit its prescribed narrative
🇨🇳🇬🇧 CNN declares BBC 'banned' but CGTN 'withdrawn' as UK and China engage in a propaganda battle
Discovery
🔎🇮🇪 How decimals put an end to the crown in Ireland
🚀🇦🇪 UAE's 'Hope' probe sends home its first image of Mars
🔎 The deep influence of Greek mythology on Valentine's Day
🍺 Egypt unearths 'world's oldest' mass-production brewery
Fire
🇵🇭 Philippines: Four people are dead and two injured in Davao City fire
🇦🇫🇮🇷 Fire destroys hundreds of fuel tankers on the Afghanistan-Iran border
🌋🇬🇹 Fuego volcano erupts some 50 kilometers from Guatemala capital
🇲🇾 Malaysia: Fire razes the Pulau Burung landfill in Penang
Other
🇫🇯 Leptospirosis outbreak kills five people in Fiji
🇬🇳 Ebola kills three people in Guinea in first deaths since 2016
🇦🇲 First Yazidi theatre debuts in Armenia with a Karabakh war play
🇰🇾 The eye-opening costs of parenting in the Cayman Islands
🏴 DRC refugee named as first black rector of University of Edinburgh
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