🌐 World News for February 8, 2021
English-language news from every country on the planet EXCEPT for the United States
Crime and Punishment
🇦🇺🇲🇲 Australian "advisor" to Aung San Suu Kyi breaks off interview when he is arrested by police in Myanmar
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Police arrest 6 kidnappers in Abuja, rescue victims
🇳🇬 Nigeria: 18-year-old woman murders her mother with boiling water in Benue State
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: Kidnapped child’s family demands his release, blocks roads in Mazar-e-Sharif
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe: Cop arrested for stealing his own vehicle in Bulawayo
🇯🇵 Japan: Three robbers pretending to be police officers were arrested in Yokohama
🇯🇴 Jordan: Egyptian man arrested for premeditated murder of fellow Egyptian in Amman
🇲🇾 Malaysia: British woman who murdered her husband in 2018 to be set free
🇲🇾 Rohingya women and child refugees caught arriving illegally in Malaysia
🇲🇾 Malaysia: 49-year-old man arrested for raping his 14-year-old stepdaughter
🇹🇹 Trinidad: Cops find more human remains during Aripo sweep
🇹🇹 Trinidad: Hundreds of people participate in anti-crime march
🇿🇦 South African women turn to guns to fight off rapists
🇧🇸 The Bahamas: Soldier arrested for raping a woman at military base
Guns
🇱🇾 Libya: Public protest in Hun calls for the withdrawal of all foreign mercenaries
🇱🇾🇸🇩 Sudan rebel leader claims his forces were on Libyan soil but not anymore
🇸🇴 Two people killed, five injured in two separate attacks in Somalia
🇸🇴 Somalia: Police tighten security after blasts in Mogadishu
Un/Diplomacy
🇧🇪🇱🇾 Belgium wants to seize €49 million of Libya's frozen assets
🇨🇳🇵🇭 The Philippines won't protest China's coast guard law at the UN
🇳🇦🇿🇲 Zambia snubs Namibia's request for autopsy reports on seven Namibians killed by Zambian police
🇧🇼🇳🇦 Botswana: President Masisi’s Namibia problem
🇮🇷🇷🇺 Iran protests Russia's use of a fake name for the Persian Gulf
🇦🇺🇨🇳 Australian journalist arrested in China for supplying state secrets
🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israel to ask allies to pass 'discreet message' to ICC to not open war crimes probe in Palestine
🇪🇹🇸🇩 Researcher calls on Ethiopians to foil hidden-hand of enemies' agendas
🇵🇬 Bougainville leader hails new understanding with Papua New Guinea
Politics
🇮🇱 Why Netanyahu just embraced Israel's version of Marjorie Taylor Greene
🇺🇬 Uganda: Bobi Wine amends petition, says Museveni should have stepped down before race
🇺🇬 Uganda: Museveni's lawyers oppose the amendment to Kyagulanyi's presidential petition
🇺🇬 Uganda: Bobi Wine, Besigye differ on the role of the West
🇭🇹 Haiti says security forces prevented coup attempt
🇭🇹 Haiti: Judge among 23 people arrested in ‘coup attempt’
🇭🇹 Haiti: Top judicial council ends President Moïse's mandate
🇭🇹 Haiti: President Moise accuses Judge Dabresil of conspiracy
🇯🇵 Japan: With the Olympics at stake, sexist boss is seen as too influential to push aside
🏴 Scotland: Peter Murrell returns to Alex Salmond inquiry at Holyrood today
🇹🇹 Trinidad: Opposition UNC party wants a complete overhaul of the judicial system
🇪🇸 Spain: As vote looms, Catalan separatism loses its spark
🇲🇲 Massive crowds protest again in Myanmar against the coup
🇸🇴 Somalia vote under threat as leaders in deadlock
🇱🇾 Libya's new interim PM Dbeibah urges reconstruction of the war-torn country
🇪🇨 Andres Arauz wins the first round of elections in Ecuador
🇧🇦 Dealing with the Bosnian conundrum
Tyranny
🇹🇳 Tunisia: Thousands protest in Tunis despite police blockade
🇳🇬 Why we banned cryptocurrency transactions - the Central Bank of Nigeria
🇳🇬 Nigeria: What’s the big deal about cryptocurrencies?
🇳🇬 Is the Nigerian government using the cryptocurrency ban to punish dissenting young people?
🇹🇭 Thai Army apologizes after conscript goes on a shooting rampage
🇩🇰 Denmark: "Men in Black" protest against the lockdown, vaccine passports
🇨🇱 Chile: The killing of a street artist in Panguipulli by police unleashes protests
🇨🇱 Chile bids farewell to street artist killed by police
Abuse
🇩🇪 Germany: Catholic nuns ‘rented’ orphaned boys to priests and businessmen for sexual exploitation
🇨🇭 Just 50 years ago, women couldn't vote in Switzerland
Herders vs. Farmers
🇳🇬 Nigerian herders crisis: Act now to avert civil war, Nobel Laureate Soyinka tells Buhari
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Revisiting Zamfara's 'cows for guns' amnesty pact
Plants and Animals
🇲🇾 Ensuring the sustainability of Malaysia’s forests
🇰🇷 South Korea: Seoul to test pet cats, dogs for COVID-19
🇳🇿 New Zealand: Injured owls nurtured back to health in Timaru
🇨🇳 China's plan for medical domination
Silicon Overlords
📱🇦🇺 Google reverses course in Australia
Propaganda
🇪🇬 Egypt frees journalist after four years in pre-trial detention for publishing "fake news"
Discovery
🚀 Three spacecraft will reach Mars in quick succession
🚀🇦🇪 UAE's 'Hope' probe to be first in a trio of Mars missions
🔎 Horrors! Darwin discovered to be a sexist!
Climate
🇮🇩 Batik dye causes blood-red flood in Jenggot, Indonesia
🇮🇳 200 people are missing in India after flash flooding caused by a glacier collapse
Other
🇨🇩 DR Congo records first Ebola death in three months
🇨🇩 A resurgence of Ebola in North Kivu in DR Congo
🇸🇴 Somalia: At least 10 children dead after Shabelle cholera outbreak
🇰🇷 For-profit universities in South Korea are going bankrupt
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