🌐 World News for February 12, 2021

English-language news from every country on the planet EXCEPT FOR the United States

Crime and Punishment

🇩🇪 Germany: Syrian citizen charged in Dresden knife attack

🇦🇬 Antigua: Police corporal killed by suspect in police custody

🇲🇽 Mexico: Ten people killed during an outbreak of violence in Guadalajara

🇵🇰 Pakistan commutes death sentence for two mentally ill convicts

🇮🇪 Ireland: Kerry man sentenced to 14 years for raping his daughters

🇮🇪 Ireland: Investigation underway after fatal shooting in Dublin

🇩🇰 Denmark charges seven people with attempted terrorism

🇹🇭 Thailand: Army band leader gunned down at a military base

🇲🇾 Malaysia: Cops bust gang impersonating police to commit robberies

🇲🇾 Malaysia: Four suspected armed robbers killed in a shootout with police in Batu Pahat

🇨🇾 Cyprus: Man who murdered his wife and son killed a 10-year-old girl when he was 15

🇲🇹 Malta: Woman kidnaps her own daughter

🇿🇲 Zambian villagers to be compensated by British mining company for polluting the region’s waterways

Guns

🇪🇹 Ethiopia’s war crimes in Tigray, revealed

🇵🇰 Pakistan: Child killed in a mortar attack from Afghanistan

🇿🇼 Zimbabwe: Four Chinese nationals severely injured in clash with artisanal miners

🇸🇸 UN peacekeepers step up patrols after deadly clashes in South Sudan

🇸🇳 Senegalese army promises to resettle displaced people

Un/Diplomacy

🇲🇾🇻🇳 Malaysian coast guard detains several Vietnamese fishermen

🇨🇾🇹🇷 Turkey says it will only join Cyprus talks with the unacceptable two-state proposal

🇪🇹🇸🇩 Senior Sudanese army general inspects troops on the border with Ethiopia

🇨🇳🇪🇹 Ethiopian FM Demeke holds phone conversation with Chinese FM Wang Yi

🇲🇱 Mali peace deal signatories meet in former rebel city

🇫🇲 Pacific Islands Forum split could cost region’s global role

Politics

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: Why I resigned from the SNP after 20 years of membership

🇰🇼 Kuwait: MP threatens PM with grilling if Cabinet not formed in a week

🇳🇦 Air Namibia has been liquidated

🇬🇷 Greece: Mitsotakis, Tsipras clash over the education bill

🇬🇷 Greek lawmakers approve on-campus police in the contentious education bill

🇲🇲 Myanmar: Government warns anti-coup protesters to return to work

🇲🇲 Myanmar frees 23,000 inmates as protests continue

🇲🇲 Who’s culpable for Myanmar’s coup?

🇸🇧 Solomon Islands: Opposition leader calls on the government to take an informed position on the USP saga

🇬🇾 Guyana’s President Ali: “There is no reason for our country to be poor”

🇸🇸 South Sudan: President wants peace with holdout group

🇽🇰 Kosovo heads to the polls on Sunday

🇷🇺 Russian President Putin is not about to fall

Tyranny

🇹🇹 Cops must not be judge, jury, and executioner in Trinidad

🇵🇸 The Palestinian Rosa Parks

🇬🇧 Lockdowns have split Britain’s population in half

🇪🇹🇳🇴 Norway begs Ethiopia for access to its refugee center in Tigray

🇧🇷 Brazil: The Army and Supreme Court conspired to keep former president Lula in prison

🇵🇱 Poland: Women’s rights activist charged for participating in abortion protests

Abuse

🇲🇾🇲🇲 Malaysia to hand over 1,200 refugees to Myanmar

🇹🇹 Trinidad needs to do more to protect its women and children

🇵🇦 Hundreds of migrants are stranded along the Darien Gap near Panama’s border with Colombia

Herders vs. Farmers

🇳🇬 Nigeria: Too much ado about Fulani ethnic profiling

🇳🇬 Nigeria: The Fulani problem

Plants and Animals

🇰🇭 The population of rare river birds in Cambodia doubled in 5 years

🇿🇼 Zimbabwe: 30 elephants go on a rampage in Beitbridge

Silicon Overlords

📱🇷🇺 YouTube removes Russian government video about police brutality in Western countries

📱🇦🇺 Life without Google: Australia is now facing the unthinkable

📱🇲🇲 Facebook censors several government accounts in Myanmar

Propaganda

🇺🇦 Leading world mass media continue to criticize Ukrainian President Zelensky for censoring three opposition TV channels

🇲🇩 Russian peacekeepers detain TV crew in Moldova

🇨🇳🇬🇧 China bans the BBC after the UK stripped CGTN of its license

Discovery

🔎 How early megacities emerged from the jungles of Cambodia

🔬 Crows are even smarter than we thought

🔎 Ancient stone circle found in Wales ‘was dismantled and rebuilt as Stonehenge’

Other

🇬🇷 Greece: Van carrying convicted terrorist in Athens pileup

🇱🇦🇹🇭 Coconut water becomes an overnight aphrodisiac sensation in Laos and Thailand

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 City of London’s Brexit tab rises with stock and swaps moves

🇳🇬 Banks’ borrowing from the Central Bank of Nigeria dropped 98% last year

🇸🇪 Sweden’s rooftop snow clearers

🇫🇷 The Mona Lisa finally gets a break from the hordes

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