🌐 World News for February 18, 2021
English-language news from every country on the planet EXCEPT for the United States
Crime and Punishment
🇳🇬 Nigeria: How bandits killed a student and abducted 42 people from Kagara school
🇳🇬 Why are kidnappings becoming increasingly frequent in Nigeria?
🇮🇱 Israel: Man arrested for murdering his 76-year-old mother
🇮🇳 Who is arrested India 'toolkit' activist Disha Ravi?
🇩🇪 Germany: Letter bomb injures three at Lidl's headquarters
🇲🇾 Malaysia: Foreigner arrested over claims of killing men and drinking their blood in Indonesia
🇬🇾 Guyana: Two men remanded for murder of an elderly priest
🇯🇵 Japan: 29-year-old police sergeant commits suicide in police station bathroom
🇵🇾 Three men beheaded during prison riot in Paraguay
Guns
🇺🇦 Why is Ukraine still not in NATO?
🇦🇿🇬🇧 Azerbaijani, British military experts hold a meeting
🇳🇦 Namibia: War orphans demand restitution from South Africa
🇳🇬 Government to begin repatriation of Nigerian refugees from Cameroon, Niger, Chad
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: Special forces free 24 prisoners from the Taliban in a rescue operation
🇰🇷 South Korea: Defense Minister apologizes over the border security breach
🇦🇿🇬🇪🇹🇷 Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey: a new military alliance on the horizon?
🇨🇴 Colombia: A new massacre leaves 5 people dead and one injured
🇪🇹 Ethiopia's Tigray region hit by a power blackout
Un/Diplomacy
🇩🇪🇵🇱 Germany is concerned about Poland’s nuclear energy plans
🇧🇳🇮🇩 Sultan of Brunei received Indonesian Foreign Minister
🇯🇴🇵🇹 Jordan FM and Portugal FM holds talks
🇬🇱 Greenland: Icelandic company violating the terms of its fishing license
🇵🇭 The Philippines installs more sovereign markers on uninhabited islands
🇪🇹🇸🇩 Sudan recalls ambassador to Ethiopia amid rising tensions
Politics
🇩🇪 Germany: New head of CDU misfires with comments about "helpless children"
🇩🇪 When will Germany grow up?
🇰🇪 Kenya: Raila faults MPs' plan to outlaw 'hustler' tag
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Niger Governor visited Kagara school hours after the abduction
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Buhari, Bello meet over Kagara school kidnapping
🇳🇬 Nigeria may be heading for disintegration, says former president
🇬🇪 Georgia: Court approves arrest warrant for opposition leader
🏴 1 in 12 people in Scotland have experienced homelessness
🇨🇾 Cyprus must increase renewable energy or face fines
🇲🇲 Anti-coup hackers target Myanmar government as protesters jam Yangon roads
🇫🇯 Fiji: Ali calls on PM Bainimarama to retract statement against Dr. Chand
🇫🇯 Fiji: PM Bainimarama calls on Dr. Chand to resign from USP
🇫🇯 Fiji: Government acted like a ‘thief in the night’ in USP deportation
🇱🇸 Lesotho: ABC implodes
🇪🇨 Ecuador's electoral authorities refuse vote recount
🇳🇪 Niger: Mahamane Ousmane hopes for a second chance at the presidency
Tyranny
🇨🇳 Why did we all copy China?
🔴 Lockdown fatigue and fear of far-right catalyze Catalonia protests
🔴 Barricades burn in Catalan streets amid protests over jailed rapper
🇲🇽 Mexico: Opium poppy farmers in Guerrero accuse soldiers of theft and violence
🏴 Scotland: Free speech on trial? Glasgow man pleads not guilty to 'offensive' tweet about Captain Tom
🇳🇬 Nigeria: How SARS tortured my brother to death
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka: Government suffocating dissent and obstructing justice for historic crimes
🇨🇲 Lockdowns exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in Cameroon
🇺🇬 Uganda: Families plead for release of abducted relatives
🇺🇬 Uganda: Police say they know nothing about abductions
🇬🇧 UK university students wasted £1bn in a year on empty accommodation
Abuse
🇮🇪 Ireland: Destruction of Mother and Baby Home tapes represents 'an imbalance of power'
🇮🇪 Ireland: Mother and baby homes: Some witnesses were not told recordings would be destroyed
🇯🇵🇰🇷 Harvard professor faces backlash over WWII sex slave claims
Plants and Animals
🐝 Great Yellow bumblebee discovered in Scotland
🇳🇴 Norway: 49-year-old man sentenced for illegal pig castration
🦋 Monarch butterflies arrive in Mexico
🇵🇰 Pakistan: Imported food prices up 52%
🐸 Unusual breeding behavior reported in treefrogs for the first time
🇲🇩 Are Moldova's farmers finally set for a shot at EU markets?
🌺 Once-in-a-lifetime pink flowers bloom from burned landscapes in Australia
Silicon Overlords
🇱🇨 St. Lucia: Free Wi-Fi for residents of Basseterre
📱🇮🇳 Amazon documents reveal the company's secret strategy to dodge India's regulators
📱🇦🇺 Facebook news goes dark in Australia
📱🇳🇿 Facebook blackout could happen in New Zealand
Propaganda
🇲🇿 Mozambique deports British journalist Tom Bowker
🇰🇭 Cambodia sets up a China-style internet firewall
🇲🇾 Malaysia: Founder of Sugarbook app arrested
🇿🇲 Zambia: Press freedom is indeed a muddy and sometimes bloody business
Discovery
🔎 Egypt autopsy offers new clues 3,600 years after a pharaoh's murder
🔬 Quantum collaboration gives new gravity to the mysteries of the universe
🔬 New images of DNA reveal it is surprisingly jiggly
Other
🇧🇯 The fight to save Benin’s colonial mansions
🇱🇾 Eight bodies of missing Sudanese family found in the deserts of Libya
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Three dead, 3,600 displaced as fire ravages IDP camp in Maiduguri
🇿🇦 South Africa: No water, no sanitation, no electricity, but for these families, this is ‘paradise’
🇹🇭 There are one million unregistered people in Thailand
🇬🇾 Guyana: Boat with decomposed bodies still not found
🇬🇾 Guyana: Mysterious death of police constable being investigated
🇰🇷 All migrant births in South Korea to be registered
🇲🇿 Mozambique's health system is under triple threat
🇧🇴 Bolivia: Central Bank returns coup leader's IMF loan
🇵🇰 Pakistan: External debt servicing cost $7 billion in first half of year
🇳🇿 New Zealand: Police yet to determine the cause of death for the person found on Murdering Beach
🇳🇿 Record low number of births in New Zealand
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