🌐 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🇦🇫🇳🇿 New Zealand troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan by May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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