๐ World News for February 9, 2021
English-language news from every country on the planet EXCEPT for the United States
Crime and Punishment
๐ฏ๐ต Japan: 81-year-old man arrested for killing his wife
๐น๐น Trinidad: Autopsy on Bharatt's body inconclusive
๐น๐น Trinidad: Social media reacts to police murder of Joel Balcon
๐น๐น Trinidad: 500 women and girls murdered in last five years
๐ญ๐บ Hungary is violating EU law on refugees
๐ฒ๐ฝ 11 officers suspended after a clash with protesting cyclists in Mexico City
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel: Netanyahu pleads not guilty to corruption as trial resumes
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland: Man jailed for vicious attack on a short-story writer in Cork city center
๐จ๐ฒ Cameroon: Fake BIR soldier arrested in Douala
๐ฑ๐ฆ Laos: Garbage burning remains a hot issue for residents of Vientiane
๐ซ๐ฏ Fiji: Partly decomposed body of a child found stuck in mangroves
๐ฎ๐ฉ Two Christians publicly flogged in Indonesia for drinking and gambling
๐ฎ๐ณ India: Actor Deep Sidhu arrested โby Delhi police over riot
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia: In Penang, deaf-mute Korean pastor charged with molesting retarded man
Guns
๐จ๐ฒ Cameroon: Two suspected Ambazonia separatists killed in restive South
๐จ๐ณ๐ซ๐ท French submarine patrols the South China Sea to provoke a response from China
๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea negotiating with Indonesia on fighter jet project
๐ฎ๐ท Iran is now completely self-reliant in arms production
๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan: Once again, Darfur farmers live in fear of attack by Arab militiamen
๐จ๐ซ Central African Republic: MINUSCA forces return to Bangui
Un/Diplomacy
๐ญ๐น The foreign roots of Haiti's โconstitutional crisisโ
๐ณ๐ท๐ซ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ต๐ผ Five countries to abandon Pacific Islands Forum over leadership vote
๐ณ๐ท๐ซ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ต๐ผ Reform seen as the solution for split Pacific IslandsForum
๐ฒ๐ญ Marshall Islands opposition member calls to leave Pacific Islands Forum
๐จ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฆ Cardinal Parolin tells Cameroon "For peace to be solid, it must be built on justice"
๐จ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฆ Can the Vatican's visit to Cameroon break the anglophone crisis stalemate?
Politics
๐ณ๐ฆ Namibia: Protesters demand the presence of Education Minister at Jan Mohr school in Windhoek
๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan's PM announces new cabinet
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ England: North Korean defector runs for office in Manchester
๐ญ๐น Haiti opposition names interim leader as political crisis deepens
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Scotland: SNP chief Peter Murrell clashes with MSPs over perjury claims
๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea: Former top sports administrator wins Bougainville regional seat
๐ฒ๐ฒ At the heart of Myanmar's new uprising, a simple demand
๐ธ๐ด Somalia: Farmaajo blames foreign interference in collapsed poll talks
๐ธ๐ด Somalia: Puntland will no longer recognize Farmaajo as president
๐บ๐ฌ Uganda: Bobi Wine files new evidence in case against Museveni
๐ธ๐ณ Clashes in Senegal after opposition leader Sonko accused of rape
๐ฎ๐ณ India: Modi asks farmers to cease protest, won't repeal laws
Tyranny
๐น๐น Trinidad: Police kill two suspects but still no answers in Andrea Bharatt case
๐ฒ๐ฒ Martial law declared in parts of Myanmar
๐ฟ๐ผ How cartels operate โ and their impact on the people of Zimbabwe
๐ฟ๐ผ How cartels extract โrentโ from Zimbabweโs poorest and make the elites richer
๐ฐ๐ญ๐น๐ญ Cambodia halts probe into the abduction of a Thai activist
๐ญ๐น Haiti: Journalists shot while covering protests
๐ฏ๐ต Japan's medical system on verge of complete collapse as healthcare workers quit in droves
๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand nurses: 'We're going to get sloppy ... we're tired and stressed'
๐ฐ๐ช Kenya: Thousands left homeless after KRC's night demolitions in Kisumu
๐ฑ๐ธ The lockdown is worsening women's land rights violations in Lesotho
๐จ๐ฑ Chile's military police attack funeral of its victim
Abuse
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland: Police plan to destroy testimony in Mother and Baby Homes case
๐ฏ๐ต Japan's ruling party backs sexist Olympics chief
Pirates
๐ดโโ ๏ธ The history of exploitation behind piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
Herders vs. Farmers
๐ณ๐ฌ We are going to debate farmers, herders clash - Nigerian Senate
Plants and Animals
๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexico: Ecatepec bans use of animal-drawn carts for garbage collection
๐ป๐ณ Vietnam culls 100,000 poultry as bird flu spreads to 14 provinces
Silicon Overlords
๐ฑ How Facebook won the internet
Propaganda
๐ฌ๐ง Britain at growing risk of a chemical attack, Defense Secretary says
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia: Man arrested for calling the police "dummies" on social media
๐ต๐ญ Philippines: President Duterte wonโt allow ABS-CBN to operate even if given a franchise by Congress
๐บ๐ฌ Uganda: Museveni, ministers cling onto social media despite the ban by his government
Discovery
๐ฌ 'Magnetic graphene' forms a new kind of magnetism
๐ฌ Holography 'quantum leap' could revolutionize imaging
Climate
๐ฎ๐ณ India glacier disaster survivors recount tunnel escape
๐ฒ๐ฆ At least 24 dead in Morocco underground factory flood
Other
๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria: Government rejects IMFโs call for further devaluation of the naira
๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria disagrees with advice to devalue the naira, IMF says
๐ฏ๐ต Photos show Japanese sub mangled by collision with a cargo ship
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa: Body of fourth child recovered from collapsed hole
๐ธ๐ช UN puts Sweden on 'shame list' for abandoning its citizens in Syria
๐จ๐ณ Don't mess with China's feminists
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