🌐 World News for February 17, 2021
English-language news from every country on the planet EXCEPT for the United States
Crime and Punishment
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Bandits kill traditional ruler, his wife, and nine other people, and kidnap 24 in Niger State
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Gunmen kill two police officers, police kill elderly lady during clash in Delta
🇲🇽 Mexico: Former Oaxaca beauty queen jailed on kidnapping charges
🇳🇴 Norway: Man charged with attempted murder after stabbing incident in Tromsø
🇯🇲 Jamaica: Man arrested for hacking a 61-year-old woman to death in Crooked River
🇵🇸 Palestinians should drag architects of illegal West Bank settlements to the ICC
🇲🇾 Malaysia: Five senior citizens among 14 nabbed for cockfight gambling in Perak
🇹🇹 Trinidad: Woman used a knife to fend off kidnapping attempt by fake taxi driver
🇧🇸 The Bahamas: Fake lawyer who brought drugs to inmates jailed for 15 months
🇬🇾 Guyana: Death row inmates among four Mazaruni Prison escapees
🇹🇭 Thailand: Meth barons look closer to home as pandemic curbs exports
🇹🇷 Turkey: Prosecutors seek jail sentences for six people over death of a child who choked on a chocolate syringe
🇯🇵 Japan: Man in Kashiwa stabs his 91-year-old father to death
🇰🇪 Kenya: How the U.S.$82 million oil scandal was planned and executed
Guns
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: Faryab blast leaves 7 policemen dead
🇷🇼 'Hotel Rwanda' star goes on trial for terrorism
🇫🇷🇷🇼 Rwanda: Fresh details emerge on how France helped genocide masterminds escape
🇸🇳 Senegal: Army seizes four Casamance rebel bases
🇨🇫 The battle for the Central African Republic city of Bangassou
🇦🇫🇳🇿 New Zealand troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan by May
Un/Diplomacy
🇰🇵🇰🇷 North Korean defector swam undetected to South Korea using a wetsuit and flippers
🇨🇳🇲🇲 Myanmar situation 'not what China wants to see': Ambassador
🇨🇳🇸🇸 China aids fight against child malnutrition in South Sudan
🇨🇾🇪🇺 EU’s Borrell to visit divided Cyprus on March 5-6
🇪🇹🇸🇸🇸🇩 Sudan and Ethiopia welcome Juba's border mediation appeal
Politics
🇹🇭 Thailand: Prime Minister denies having ties to illegal gambling "dens"
🇲🇲 Myanmar monks on the march, call for an end to military rule
🇰🇵 Kim Jong-un is now the "President" of North Korea, not the "Chairman"
🇿🇦 South Africa: Opposition parties tear into Ramaphosa on the first day of Sona debate
🇧🇿 Belize: Former PM Barrow appears before Commission of Inquiry
🇵🇹 Portugal to continue its "Golden Visa" program for wealthy foreigners
🇲🇿🇻🇦 Catholic Pope interferes in Mozambique's internal politics
🇪🇨 Ecuador: Indigenous peoples march to demand a vote recount
🇸🇻 El Salvador: Parliament discusses whether or not to remove President Bukele from office
Tyranny
🇰🇪 How a string of bad investment decisions dug Kenya neck-deep in debt
🇲🇦 Morocco: Rabat doctors, pharmacists left without wages for over a year
🇩🇿 Algeria: Thousands of people take to the streets to relaunch the protest movement
🔴 Protests erupt across Catalonia after rapper's arrest
🔴 At least 30 people injured amid protests in Catalonia
🇹🇹 Trinidad's UNC Party to Griffith: "We don't want a police state"
🇮🇪 Citizens are being prevented from returning to Ireland even though they have fully recovered from Covid-19
🇺🇬 Uganda: Kyagulanyi runs to UN Human Rights Commission over abductions
🔬 We need weak ties just as much as we need close friends
Abuse
🇰🇷 South Korea: Government to crack down on 'greenhouse dorms' for migrant slaves
🇮🇱 Israel's parliament fears a critical mass of women
🇬🇾 Guyana: Authorities have "lost" the boat with dead people after failing to secure it
🇮🇪 Ireland: Unconstitutional school closures violate children’s rights
🇯🇵 Japan's ruling party wants more women at meetings, but they must stay quiet
🇦🇪 Dubai princess says she fears for life as she is being held 'hostage'
🇿🇦 South Africa's female education minister slammed over incredibly ignorant and sexist remark
🇱🇾 Over 300 migrants rescued off Libyan coast
Herders vs. Farmers
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Fulani herdsmen caution communities against violence, xenophobic statements
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Delta leaders lambast Gumi
Plants and Animals
🇷🇺 Dogs with bright blue fur seen on the side of a road in Russia are real
🇧🇳 Brunei: 2.5m-long crocodile captured in Seria
🇹🇭 Thailand: Five traditional remedies now off the banned list
🇵🇭 Philippines: Mindanao culls nearly 1,500 pigs due to African Swine Fever
🇱🇦 Laos: Authorities destroy 31 hectares of poppies in Oudomxay
Climate
🇬🇷 Greece: Rare snowstorm leaves 3 people dead
🇲🇺 Mauritius oil spill: Captain claims he drifted ashore in search of an internet connection
Silicon Overlords
📱🇮🇳 Twitter’s clash with India gives a boost to local rival Koo
Propaganda
🇺🇦 Ukraine's president censoring accounts on Facebook which criticize him
🇨🇳 China steps up online controls with new rules for bloggers
🇸🇮 Slovenia's war on the media
🇨🇦🇳🇦 Canadian oil driller threatens to sue the Namibian
Discovery
🔬 1 in 5 deaths caused by fossil fuel air pollution worldwide
🔎 A look back at Spain's 1803 vaccination campaign in Mexico
☄️ Dinosaur killer was a comet from the edge of our solar system
🔬 Climate change likely drove the extinction of North America's largest animals
🔬 Researchers find a novel connection between cell metabolism and cell division
🔬 New evidence shows Homo Sapiens, Neanderthals shared stone tool technology
🚀 The Soviet Union's secretive space cannon, the only gun ever fired in space
Other
🇮🇳 India: 39 dead after a bus veers off-road into a canal
🇸🇧 Solomon Islands: After 80 years, the Tenaru school is finally cooking with gas
🇯🇵 American man sues Amnesty International Japan after he was fired for inadequate Japanese language skills
🇬🇾 Guyana: Policeman collapses, dies after injections
🇿🇲 Zambia: Rhino sculpture in Lusaka razed to make way for road construction
🇸🇿 Eswatini: Rugby star commits suicide
👾 How to escape the confines of time and space, according to the CIA
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