🌐 World News for February 23, 2021
🌐 World News for February 23, 2021
English-language news from every country on the planet EXCEPT FOR the United States
Crime and Punishment
🇬🇧 Britain: Earl of Strathmore jailed for sexual assault at Glamis Castle
🇿🇦 South Africa: Hawks arrest suspected trader in prehistoric art
🇬🇾 Guyana: Man remanded to prison for harboring Mazaruni prison escapees
🇱🇾 Libya: Six human smugglers arrested
🇳🇴 Norway: 18-year-old charged with attempted murder in Oslo
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone: More revelations of alleged corruption in the office of the Chief Minister
🇯🇲 Jamaica: Over 200 murders already this year
🇳🇿 New Zealand: Man jailed after a six-hour assault on a pregnant woman
Guns
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Smuggled diary tells the story of women abducted by Boko Haram
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Boko Haram will soon infiltrate killer-herdsmen, bandits
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Battle of supremacy rages in Boko Haram/ISWAP camps
🇨🇩 DR Congo: Italian ambassador among 3 killed in attack on UN convoy
🇮🇱 When the Israeli woman crossed the Syrian border, soldiers were looking the wrong way
🇮🇱🇸🇾 Who knew that Israel was kidnapping Syrian shepherds?
🇲🇿 Mozambique: Terrorists strike Quionga
Un/Diplomacy
🇶🇦🇦🇪 UAE and Qatar hold first meeting since Gulf detente
🇪🇹🇩🇪 German-Ethiopian relations suffer over Tigray
🇱🇾🇹🇷 Turkish firm builds the biggest concrete factory in Libya
🇫🇷🇹🇷 Turkey's French teachers caught in diplomatic crosshairs
🇮🇷🇹🇯 Iran’s Interior Minister arrives in Tajikistan for bilateral talks
🇯🇵🇲🇺 Japan extends ¥30 billion in loans to Mauritius after oil spill
🇮🇩🇲🇲 Myanmar people's wishes must be respected: Indonesian foreign minister
🇮🇳🇲🇲 India’s muted response to Myanmar military coup seen as a strategic move
🇪🇹🇸🇩 Ethiopia seeks AU support in resolving border row with Sudan
🇪🇹🇸🇩 Sudan 'insulted' by Ethiopia's accusation on border tiff
Politics
🇺🇬 Bobi Wine withdraws case challenging Uganda’s presidential election
🇿🇦 South Africa: Zondo asks Constitutional Court to jail Zuma for two years for continued defiance
🇿🇦 South Africa: The Zondo Commission’s findings must not be allowed to go the way of the TRC’s
🇬🇪 Garibashvili – Georgia’s former, soon to be new PM
🇬🇪 Why did a political crisis break out in Georgia and how serious is it?
🇬🇪 Georgia: Police raid opposition HQ, arrest leader
🇫🇷 France: Outcry after migrant children placed in a detention center
🏴 Scotland: Alex Salmond claims senior SNP staff plotted to have him imprisoned
🇩🇲 Dominica: Government confident it can deliver geothermal power plant by 2022
🇭🇹 Haiti: Moise downplays his country's crisis at UN
🇲🇾 Malaysia: Island reclamation plan divides residents
🇿🇲 Zambia: Do we even need the intelligence services?
🔴 The Abkhaz Orthodox Church's bid for independence
🇬🇧 Britain: Boris Johnson's Isle of Man roundabout plan ‘not credible’, top architect warns
🇬🇧 UK: The utterly useless Keir Starmer
🇲🇾 Malaysia halts deportation of Myanmar asylum seekers
Tyranny
🇺🇬 Uganda: Total Oil won't let villagers bury their dead
🇺🇬 Uganda: Trial of civilians in military courts violates human rights
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan: Quarantine more deadly than the virus itself
🇮🇪 Ireland: Teenage students are suffering under lockdown
🇺🇳 Pandemic used as 'pretext' to crush dissent, U.N. says
🇱🇸 Lesotho: Time to decolonize, redefine global health
🇪🇸 Spain: 109 people arrested over rapper Pablo Hasél protests
Abuse
🇳🇴 Norway: 46% of women in the military have experienced sexual harassment
🇳🇬 Nigeria: NTA, NCAC join forces to combat rape epidemic
🇶🇦 German beach volleyball duo boycott Qatar over bikini issue
🇬🇷 Greece: Theatre director accused of rape taught refugee children
Plants and Animals
🇰🇾 Cayman Islands: Deadly coral disease moves closer to Seven Mile Beach
🇹🇭 Thailand: FDA wants cannabis put on its list of essential medicines
🇳🇿 Stranded whales refloated in New Zealand but concerns remain
Climate
🇰🇪 Kenya: Call for ban on plastic bottles as oceans choke on pollution
Silicon Overlords
📱🇪🇸 Google in talks with Spanish publishers
📱🇦🇺 Facebook to restore Australia news pages as deal reached on media law
Propaganda
🇰🇭 Cambodia’s internet clampdown: a ‘great firewall’, or no worse than the west?
🇧🇮 Burundi: Government lifts sanctions on local radio station
🇰🇪 Dirty tricks were used to censor a report on gambling in Kenya
🇹🇩 Chad: Man sentenced to three years in jail for posting about President Déby's health
🇲🇿 Mozambique: Zitamar editor Tom Bowker expelled as part of a press crackdown
🇷🇼 Rwanda: The dictator who fooled the West
Discovery
🔎 End of Neanderthals linked to flip of Earth’s magnetic poles
✍️ Letters from Adolf Hitler's father give a rare glimpse into his upbringing
🔭 Ghost particle from shredded star reveals cosmic particle accelerator
🇦🇺 Kangaroo painting Australia's oldest aboriginal rock art
Money
🇺🇬 Uganda: Man invents 3D printed money identifier for the visually impaired
🇸🇩 Sudan floats currency as it races to stop cash crunch
Other
🇸🇪 Sweden sees its lowest population growth in 15 years
🇯🇵 Japan recorded fewer deaths in 2020 for the first time in 11 years
🇳🇴 Norway: Munch wrote ‘madman’ sentence on ‘The Scream’
🇹🇹 Trinidad: Taxi drivers to raise standards after Bharatt’s death
🇬🇮 Gibraltar: Two seafarers remain critical as repairs to damaged cargo ship are completed
🇮🇹 Italy 'misled WHO on pandemic readiness' weeks before Covid outbreak
🇫🇷 France: Marie-Antoinette’s personal theatre gets a lockdown makeover
🇵🇳 Pitcairn: A sailor's incredible survival story of 16 hours adrift
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