๐ World News for February 16, 2021
English-language news from every country on the planet EXCEPT for the United States
Crime and Punishment
๐ฐ๐ผ Police arrested a man for forging his Kuwaiti citizenship 35 years ago
๐ณ๐ด Norway: Man sentenced to six years for raping his grandson
๐น๐น Trinidad: Two girls and one man arrested for kidnapping and armed robbery
๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexico: The government has disbanded the police in Orizaba
๐ณ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ด Autopsy to be performed on Dutch soldier who died in Norway
๐ง๐ธ The Bahamas: Marine charged with rape of a fellow marine on Inagua
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa: Valentine's Day marred by wave of rapes and assaults against women
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa: President Zuma snubs anti-graft commission again, risks arrest
๐ฟ๐ฆ President Zuma: Many South Africans overlooking judicial abuse because they don't like me
๐น๐ท Violence against health care workers continues in Turkey
๐ฒ๐น Malta: โI never did business with Fenechโ says Cutajar
๐ฆ๐บ Australia: Olympian Scott Miller arrested in $2 million meth sting
๐ณ๐ฟ๐น๐ท Three New Zealand citizens detained trying to enter Turkey
Guns
๐จ๐ฒ Cameroon: Ambazonia separatists accused of killing three traditional rulers
๐น๐ฉ Chad: President Deby promises to deploy soldiers to tackle Islamists in the Sahel
๐ฎ๐ช Questions raised about the ability of the military to aid Ireland's foreign policy goals
๐ฎ๐ถ US contractor killed, several wounded in rocket attack in northern Iraq
๐จ๐ซ Central African Republic's 'Rambo' on trial for war crimes
๐พ๐ช Yemen's starving children cross battlefields
Un/Diplomacy
๐ญ๐น CARICOM concerned over developments in Haiti
๐ง๐ฒ Bermuda PM ready to work with other "non-sovereign territories" to push back against "colonialism"
๐ฎ๐ท๐ถ๐ฆ Iranian FM hold talks with Qatari counterpart
๐ฎ๐ท๐น๐ท๐ท๐บ Iranian, Turkish, Russian deputiesย hold a meeting in Sochi
๐จ๐พ๐น๐ท Greek Cypriot mentality unchanged says Turkish Cypriot leader
๐ณ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ง NZ High Commissioner pays a courtesy visit to Solomon Islands PM
๐ง๐ญ๐ฆ๐ช King of Bahrain on a private visit to the UAE
๐ฐ๐ญ๐จ๐ณ Whatโs really behind Cambodia's cancellation of military exercises with China?
๐จ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ต Two more Chinese coast guard vessels enter Japan's waters near disputed islands
๐ซ๐ฎ๐ท๐บ Finland's Foreign Minister meets Lavrov in St. Petersburg amid strained EU-Russia relations
๐ฆ๐บ๐ณ๐ฟ๐น๐ท New Zealand-Australia row erupts over 'terrorist' dual national
๐ช๐จ US, OAS, Colombia trying to steal Ecuador's election
Politics
๐ฒ๐น Malta is hemorrhaging nurses due to red tape
๐ฟ๐ผ Zimbabwe: Vice President Kembo Mohadi attacked by his lover's husband
๐ฐ๐พ Cayman Islands: Protest at Government House over early election call
๐ญ๐น Haiti on the edge of disaster again
๐ญ๐น In Haiti, protesters' anger turns towards the United States
๐จ๐ฒ Cameroon: Former Ambazonia combatants protest in Bamenda
๐ฎ๐ณ India: Villages support protesting farmers with milk and music
๐ด New calls for an independence referendum in Catalonia
๐ผ๐ธ Samoa: Government accused of negligence in lethal 2019 measles outbreak
๐ฝ๐ฐ Anti-corruption party wins Kosovo parliamentary election
๐ธ๐ด Somalia: Farmaajo, opposition lock horns over possible extension of stay in office
๐ณ๐จ New Caledonia poised for first pro-independence government
๐ช๐ฌ The tragedy of Egyptโs Arab Spring
Tyranny
๐ฝ๐ฐ Kosovo is actively undermining the ICC
๐ง๐ฉ Bangladesh imprisons more Rohingya refugees on a new island
๐น๐น Trinidad: Attorney for murdered suspect's family welcomes call for foreign police investigation
๐น๐น Trinidad: National Security Minister summons cops after they murdered two kidnapping suspects
๐จ๐ฒ Cameroon arrests eight soldiers for torturing civilian nearly to death
๐จ๐พ Cyprus: Public outcry one positive sign from shocking police violence
๐ต๐ญ Philippines: University denies police claim of indigenous children combat training
๐ฏ๐ต Child suicides in Japan hit record-high in 2020
๐ฉ๐ฐ Small businesses rebel against the lockdown in Denmark
๐ด Catalan rapper locks himself in university to avoid jail in free speech case
๐บ๐ฌ Uganda: Court denies bail to 36 supporters of Bobi Wine's party
Abuse
๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ๐ท Victim asks South Korea to bring Japanese wartime sex slavery issue to ICJ
๐ฆ๐บ Australian PM promises investigation into woman raped in parliament
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland: Deletion of files over mother and baby homes defended
๐ฒ๐ฑ Mali refuses to face up to the persistence of slavery
๐ฐ๐ช๐ฒ๐ผ British company pays out $9.7 million to its rape victims in Kenya and Malawi
Herders vs. Farmers
๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria's farmers/herders clash: Ogun holds stakeholders meeting
๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria: Miyetti Allah calls for resolution of herders' crisis
๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria: Herdsmen: โBuhari's silence dangerous'
Plants and Animals
๐ฟ๐ฒ Zambia: Bus runs over and kills 12 cows, injures two others
๐ฐ๐ญ Forest defenders under fire in Cambodia
๐ฌ Tropical paper wasps babysit for their neighbors
๐ณ The mysterious existence of a leafless kauri stump kept alive by its forest neighbors
๐จ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ Zimbabwe to export citrus fruits to China
๐ฆ๐ด๐ณ๐ฑ The Netherlands wants to import citrus fruits and avocadoes from Angola
๐ฑ๐ธ Lesotho: Despite patriarchal norms, women strike gold in farming
Climate
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia: Landslide kills four people with 14 missing
๐ป๐บ Strong 6.2-magnitude quake rocks Vanuatu
Propaganda
๐ฎ๐ณ๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan: India trying to mislead world on occupied Kashmir situation
Discovery
๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ The story behind Scotlandโs witch hunt and trials
๐ฌ Ceramic in meteorites upends theory of early solar system
Other
๐ต๐ฐ Pakistanโs โCharlie Chaplinโ brings laughs to Peshawar
๐ฐ๐พ Four police car crashes in 10 days in the Cayman Islands
๐ฌ๐พ Unmarked boat with several dead bodies floats into Guyanese waters
๐บ๐ฌ Uganda: Kagadi hospital stuck with unclaimed body
๐ฎ๐ถ In Iraq, the generous Mideast tradition of 'istiftah' lives on
๐จ๐ฉ DR Congo: At least 60 dead after riverboat sinks
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