🌐 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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