🌐 World News for February 16, 2021
English-language news from every country on the planet EXCEPT for the United States
Crime and Punishment
🇰🇼 Police arrested a man for forging his Kuwaiti citizenship 35 years ago
🇳🇴 Norway: Man sentenced to six years for raping his grandson
🇹🇹 Trinidad: Two girls and one man arrested for kidnapping and armed robbery
🇲🇽 Mexico: The government has disbanded the police in Orizaba
🇳🇱🇳🇴 Autopsy to be performed on Dutch soldier who died in Norway
🇧🇸 The Bahamas: Marine charged with rape of a fellow marine on Inagua
🇿🇦 South Africa: Valentine's Day marred by wave of rapes and assaults against women
🇿🇦 South Africa: President Zuma snubs anti-graft commission again, risks arrest
🇿🇦 President Zuma: Many South Africans overlooking judicial abuse because they don't like me
🇹🇷 Violence against health care workers continues in Turkey
🇲🇹 Malta: ‘I never did business with Fenech’ says Cutajar
🇦🇺 Australia: Olympian Scott Miller arrested in $2 million meth sting
🇳🇿🇹🇷 Three New Zealand citizens detained trying to enter Turkey
Guns
🇨🇲 Cameroon: Ambazonia separatists accused of killing three traditional rulers
🇹🇩 Chad: President Deby promises to deploy soldiers to tackle Islamists in the Sahel
🇮🇪 Questions raised about the ability of the military to aid Ireland's foreign policy goals
🇮🇶 US contractor killed, several wounded in rocket attack in northern Iraq
🇨🇫 Central African Republic's 'Rambo' on trial for war crimes
🇾🇪 Yemen's starving children cross battlefields
Un/Diplomacy
🇭🇹 CARICOM concerned over developments in Haiti
🇧🇲 Bermuda PM ready to work with other "non-sovereign territories" to push back against "colonialism"
🇮🇷🇶🇦 Iranian FM hold talks with Qatari counterpart
🇮🇷🇹🇷🇷🇺 Iranian, Turkish, Russian deputies hold a meeting in Sochi
🇨🇾🇹🇷 Greek Cypriot mentality unchanged says Turkish Cypriot leader
🇳🇿🇸🇧 NZ High Commissioner pays a courtesy visit to Solomon Islands PM
🇧🇭🇦🇪 King of Bahrain on a private visit to the UAE
🇰🇭🇨🇳 What’s really behind Cambodia's cancellation of military exercises with China?
🇨🇳🇯🇵 Two more Chinese coast guard vessels enter Japan's waters near disputed islands
🇫🇮🇷🇺 Finland's Foreign Minister meets Lavrov in St. Petersburg amid strained EU-Russia relations
🇦🇺🇳🇿🇹🇷 New Zealand-Australia row erupts over 'terrorist' dual national
🇪🇨 US, OAS, Colombia trying to steal Ecuador's election
Politics
🇲🇹 Malta is hemorrhaging nurses due to red tape
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe: Vice President Kembo Mohadi attacked by his lover's husband
🇰🇾 Cayman Islands: Protest at Government House over early election call
🇭🇹 Haiti on the edge of disaster again
🇭🇹 In Haiti, protesters' anger turns towards the United States
🇨🇲 Cameroon: Former Ambazonia combatants protest in Bamenda
🇮🇳 India: Villages support protesting farmers with milk and music
🔴 New calls for an independence referendum in Catalonia
🇼🇸 Samoa: Government accused of negligence in lethal 2019 measles outbreak
🇽🇰 Anti-corruption party wins Kosovo parliamentary election
🇸🇴 Somalia: Farmaajo, opposition lock horns over possible extension of stay in office
🇳🇨 New Caledonia poised for first pro-independence government
🇪🇬 The tragedy of Egypt’s Arab Spring
Tyranny
🇽🇰 Kosovo is actively undermining the ICC
🇧🇩 Bangladesh imprisons more Rohingya refugees on a new island
🇹🇹 Trinidad: Attorney for murdered suspect's family welcomes call for foreign police investigation
🇹🇹 Trinidad: National Security Minister summons cops after they murdered two kidnapping suspects
🇨🇲 Cameroon arrests eight soldiers for torturing civilian nearly to death
🇨🇾 Cyprus: Public outcry one positive sign from shocking police violence
🇵🇭 Philippines: University denies police claim of indigenous children combat training
🇯🇵 Child suicides in Japan hit record-high in 2020
🇩🇰 Small businesses rebel against the lockdown in Denmark
🔴 Catalan rapper locks himself in university to avoid jail in free speech case
🇺🇬 Uganda: Court denies bail to 36 supporters of Bobi Wine's party
Abuse
🇯🇵🇰🇷 Victim asks South Korea to bring Japanese wartime sex slavery issue to ICJ
🇦🇺 Australian PM promises investigation into woman raped in parliament
🇮🇪 Ireland: Deletion of files over mother and baby homes defended
🇲🇱 Mali refuses to face up to the persistence of slavery
🇰🇪🇲🇼 British company pays out $9.7 million to its rape victims in Kenya and Malawi
Herders vs. Farmers
🇳🇬 Nigeria's farmers/herders clash: Ogun holds stakeholders meeting
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Miyetti Allah calls for resolution of herders' crisis
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Herdsmen: ‘Buhari's silence dangerous'
Plants and Animals
🇿🇲 Zambia: Bus runs over and kills 12 cows, injures two others
🇰🇭 Forest defenders under fire in Cambodia
🔬 Tropical paper wasps babysit for their neighbors
🌳 The mysterious existence of a leafless kauri stump kept alive by its forest neighbors
🇨🇳🇿🇼 Zimbabwe to export citrus fruits to China
🇦🇴🇳🇱 The Netherlands wants to import citrus fruits and avocadoes from Angola
🇱🇸 Lesotho: Despite patriarchal norms, women strike gold in farming
Climate
🇮🇩 Indonesia: Landslide kills four people with 14 missing
🇻🇺 Strong 6.2-magnitude quake rocks Vanuatu
Propaganda
🇮🇳🇵🇰 Pakistan: India trying to mislead world on occupied Kashmir situation
Discovery
🔎🏴 The story behind Scotland’s witch hunt and trials
🔬 Ceramic in meteorites upends theory of early solar system
Other
🇵🇰 Pakistan’s ‘Charlie Chaplin’ brings laughs to Peshawar
🇰🇾 Four police car crashes in 10 days in the Cayman Islands
🇬🇾 Unmarked boat with several dead bodies floats into Guyanese waters
🇺🇬 Uganda: Kagadi hospital stuck with unclaimed body
🇮🇶 In Iraq, the generous Mideast tradition of 'istiftah' lives on
🇨🇩 DR Congo: At least 60 dead after riverboat sinks
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