🌐 World News for February 9, 2021
English-language news from every country on the planet EXCEPT for the United States
Crime and Punishment
🇯🇵 Japan: 81-year-old man arrested for killing his wife
🇹🇹 Trinidad: Autopsy on Bharatt's body inconclusive
🇹🇹 Trinidad: Social media reacts to police murder of Joel Balcon
🇹🇹 Trinidad: 500 women and girls murdered in last five years
🇭🇺 Hungary is violating EU law on refugees
🇲🇽 11 officers suspended after a clash with protesting cyclists in Mexico City
🇮🇱 Israel: Netanyahu pleads not guilty to corruption as trial resumes
🇮🇪 Ireland: Man jailed for vicious attack on a short-story writer in Cork city center
🇨🇲 Cameroon: Fake BIR soldier arrested in Douala
🇱🇦 Laos: Garbage burning remains a hot issue for residents of Vientiane
🇫🇯 Fiji: Partly decomposed body of a child found stuck in mangroves
🇮🇩 Two Christians publicly flogged in Indonesia for drinking and gambling
🇮🇳 India: Actor Deep Sidhu arrested by Delhi police over riot
🇲🇾 Malaysia: In Penang, deaf-mute Korean pastor charged with molesting retarded man
Guns
🇨🇲 Cameroon: Two suspected Ambazonia separatists killed in restive South
🇨🇳🇫🇷 French submarine patrols the South China Sea to provoke a response from China
🇮🇩🇰🇷 South Korea negotiating with Indonesia on fighter jet project
🇮🇷 Iran is now completely self-reliant in arms production
🇸🇩 Sudan: Once again, Darfur farmers live in fear of attack by Arab militiamen
🇨🇫 Central African Republic: MINUSCA forces return to Bangui
Un/Diplomacy
🇭🇹 The foreign roots of Haiti's “constitutional crisis”
🇳🇷🇫🇲🇰🇮🇲🇭🇵🇼 Five countries to abandon Pacific Islands Forum over leadership vote
🇳🇷🇫🇲🇰🇮🇲🇭🇵🇼 Reform seen as the solution for split Pacific IslandsForum
🇲🇭 Marshall Islands opposition member calls to leave Pacific Islands Forum
🇨🇲🇻🇦 Cardinal Parolin tells Cameroon "For peace to be solid, it must be built on justice"
🇨🇲🇻🇦 Can the Vatican's visit to Cameroon break the anglophone crisis stalemate?
Politics
🇳🇦 Namibia: Protesters demand the presence of Education Minister at Jan Mohr school in Windhoek
🇸🇩 Sudan's PM announces new cabinet
🏴 England: North Korean defector runs for office in Manchester
🇭🇹 Haiti opposition names interim leader as political crisis deepens
🏴 Scotland: SNP chief Peter Murrell clashes with MSPs over perjury claims
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea: Former top sports administrator wins Bougainville regional seat
🇲🇲 At the heart of Myanmar's new uprising, a simple demand
🇸🇴 Somalia: Farmaajo blames foreign interference in collapsed poll talks
🇸🇴 Somalia: Puntland will no longer recognize Farmaajo as president
🇺🇬 Uganda: Bobi Wine files new evidence in case against Museveni
🇸🇳 Clashes in Senegal after opposition leader Sonko accused of rape
🇮🇳 India: Modi asks farmers to cease protest, won't repeal laws
Tyranny
🇹🇹 Trinidad: Police kill two suspects but still no answers in Andrea Bharatt case
🇲🇲 Martial law declared in parts of Myanmar
🇿🇼 How cartels operate – and their impact on the people of Zimbabwe
🇿🇼 How cartels extract ‘rent’ from Zimbabwe’s poorest and make the elites richer
🇰🇭🇹🇭 Cambodia halts probe into the abduction of a Thai activist
🇭🇹 Haiti: Journalists shot while covering protests
🇯🇵 Japan's medical system on verge of complete collapse as healthcare workers quit in droves
🇳🇿 New Zealand nurses: 'We're going to get sloppy ... we're tired and stressed'
🇰🇪 Kenya: Thousands left homeless after KRC's night demolitions in Kisumu
🇱🇸 The lockdown is worsening women's land rights violations in Lesotho
🇨🇱 Chile's military police attack funeral of its victim
Abuse
🇮🇪 Ireland: Police plan to destroy testimony in Mother and Baby Homes case
🇯🇵 Japan's ruling party backs sexist Olympics chief
Pirates
🏴☠️ The history of exploitation behind piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
Herders vs. Farmers
🇳🇬 We are going to debate farmers, herders clash - Nigerian Senate
Plants and Animals
🇲🇽 Mexico: Ecatepec bans use of animal-drawn carts for garbage collection
🇻🇳 Vietnam culls 100,000 poultry as bird flu spreads to 14 provinces
Silicon Overlords
📱 How Facebook won the internet
Propaganda
🇬🇧 Britain at growing risk of a chemical attack, Defense Secretary says
🇲🇾 Malaysia: Man arrested for calling the police "dummies" on social media
🇵🇭 Philippines: President Duterte won’t allow ABS-CBN to operate even if given a franchise by Congress
🇺🇬 Uganda: Museveni, ministers cling onto social media despite the ban by his government
Discovery
🔬 'Magnetic graphene' forms a new kind of magnetism
🔬 Holography 'quantum leap' could revolutionize imaging
Climate
🇮🇳 India glacier disaster survivors recount tunnel escape
🇲🇦 At least 24 dead in Morocco underground factory flood
Other
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Government rejects IMF’s call for further devaluation of the naira
🇳🇬 Nigeria disagrees with advice to devalue the naira, IMF says
🇯🇵 Photos show Japanese sub mangled by collision with a cargo ship
🇿🇦 South Africa: Body of fourth child recovered from collapsed hole
🇸🇪 UN puts Sweden on 'shame list' for abandoning its citizens in Syria
🇨🇳 Don't mess with China's feminists
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