🌐 World News for February 15, 2021

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

Crime and Punishment

🇲🇼 Malawi: Robbers using crying babies to lure people out of their homes

🇯🇵 Japan: 21-year-old woman arrested for sending hundreds of nude selfies to a woman in her 70s

🇯🇴 Jordan: Man sentenced to two years for grabbing a woman’s genitals in Amman

🇳🇴 🔴 Norwegian citizen sentenced to death in Somaliland could be shot within a few days

🇳🇬 Nigeria: Kidnapped NTA reporter regains freedom

🇹🇷 Turkey: 14th-century Hutura Hagios church looted by treasure hunters

🇲🇾 Malaysia: Jho Low’s instructions on 1MDB came from PM

Guns

🇾🇪 Dozens of people killed in overnight clashes in northern Yemen

🇮🇶🇹🇷 Turkey identifies citizens executed by PKK terrorists in Iraq

🇮🇶🇹🇷 Kurdish forces in Iraq execute 13 Turkish soldiers and police officers

🇪🇹🇸🇩 Sudan says Ethiopian forces have crossed the border

🇮🇱🇸🇾 Israeli airstrikes intercepted over Damascus, Syria

🇫🇷 vs 🇧🇫🇹🇩🇲🇱🇲🇷🇳🇪 President Macron to (virtually) meet Sahel leaders as France mulls troop drawdown

🇰🇷🇺🇸 US and South Korea close to striking defense cost-sharing deal

🇵🇭🇺🇸 Duterte tells the USA “you have to pay” to station troops in the Philippines

🇸🇴 Somalia: Suicide bomber strikes near the presidential palace in Mogadishu

🇸🇴 Somalia: Gunmen kill three women in Mogadishu

🏴‍☠️ Pirates

🇹🇷 Kidnapped Turkish sailors return home, recount torture and intimidation

Un/Diplomacy

🇦🇪🇺🇦 Ukraine, UAE agree to combat extremists jointly

🇰🇪🇸🇴 ICJ rejects Kenya’s request to delay Somalia maritime case

🇹🇩🇺🇸 US Embassy in Chad asks local politician to vacate the premises

Politics

🔴 Catalonia election: Socialists win, but separatists expand majority

🇽🇰 Early results point to Kosovo opposition party win in parliamentary vote

🇲🇾 PM Muhyiddin launches long-term blueprint for Malaysian unity

🇲🇲 Armored vehicles deployed to major Myanmar cities after mass protests

🇵🇪 Peru’s foreign minister quits after secret vaccination

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: Prominent supporter of Alex Salmond to take legal action against Crown Office

🇲🇼 Malawi: Minister Kaliati calls for a mindset change on street beggars

🇳🇬 Nigerian President Buhari: “I won’t allow any religious, ethnic group to stoke hatred, violence against others”

🇨🇬 Congo: President Nguesso visits Plateaux region ahead of elections

🇲🇺 ‘Democracy does not work’ says Mauritian opposition leader Arvin Boolell

🇮🇳 Farmers’ protest in India — the price of failure will be immense

Tyranny

🇩🇰 PM wants everyone in Denmark to take multiple Covid-19 tests every week

🇮🇶 More than 600 people in Iraq have been killed in protest-related violence since 2019

🇪🇹 Ethiopia: Police seize more than 2 million hoarded jerrycans of palm oil in Addis Ababa

🇪🇹 Ethiopia: Dozens of protesters killed in Tigray

🇺🇬 Uganda: ‘They’re abducting everyone’

🇺🇬 Can Ugandan children do without kindergarten?

🇺🇬 Ugandans are dead stuck with the Uganda that sucks

🇹🇹 Trinidad: Law body wants foreign cops to probe death of Bharatt murder suspect

🇸🇬 Singapore: Public servant arrested for sending Whatsapp message

🇭🇹 Thousands of Haitians protest, alleging new dictatorship

🇳🇬 ‘We want justice’: Nigerians protest at Lekki shooting site

🇬🇧 Zero Covid is an authoritarian fantasy

🇬🇧 We DID have a sensible Covid plan… but copied a police state instead

Abuse

🇲🇾 Malaysia: Minister wants police to conduct a probe on allegations of sexual harassment at roadblocks

🇪🇹 Ethiopia: ‘Incomplete but troubling picture’ reveals the impact of the Tigray crisis on children

🇳🇿 New Zealand: Ants found crawling on the face of care home resident in Auckland

Herders vs. Farmers

🇳🇬 Nigeria: Bauchi governor explains comments on herders carrying Ak-47 rifles for self-defense

🇳🇬 Nigeria: Northern governors must act to stem the herders’ crisis

Plants and Animals

🔬 Strange life found on seafloor in the dark beneath the Antarctic ice shelf

Silicon Overlords

📱🇦🇺 Tech giants ‘close’ to deals with Australian media

📱 Facebook is rejecting ads for stylish clothing made for people with disabilities

📱 Mark Zuckerberg told staff that Facebook needs to ‘inflict pain’ on Apple

Propaganda

🇪🇹 Ethiopia: Some international organizations are making exaggerated claims about Tigray

📰 New York Times selectively misquotes scientists to fit its prescribed narrative

🇨🇳🇬🇧 CNN declares BBC ‘banned’ but CGTN ‘withdrawn’ as UK and China engage in a propaganda battle

Discovery

🔎🇮🇪 How decimals put an end to the crown in Ireland

🚀🇦🇪 UAE’s ‘Hope’ probe sends home its first image of Mars

🔎 The deep influence of Greek mythology on Valentine’s Day

🍺 Egypt unearths ‘world’s oldest’ mass-production brewery

Fire

🇵🇭 Philippines: Four people are dead and two injured in Davao City fire

🇦🇫🇮🇷 Fire destroys hundreds of fuel tankers on the Afghanistan-Iran border

🌋🇬🇹 Fuego volcano erupts some 50 kilometers from Guatemala capital

🇲🇾 Malaysia: Fire razes the Pulau Burung landfill in Penang

Other

🇫🇯 Leptospirosis outbreak kills five people in Fiji

🇬🇳 Ebola kills three people in Guinea in first deaths since 2016

🇦🇲 First Yazidi theatre debuts in Armenia with a Karabakh war play

🇰🇾 The eye-opening costs of parenting in the Cayman Islands

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 DRC refugee named as first black rector of University of Edinburgh

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