🌐 World News for February 22, 2021
English-language news from every country on the planet EXCEPT FOR the United States
Crime and Punishment
🇹🇹 Trinidad: Arima man shot in legs, testicles
🇸🇬 Singapore: Jail and caning for a man who raped his ex-girlfriend, hoping to get her pregnant
🇬🇾 Guyana: Suspect in ‘septic tank murder’ caught in a minibus
🇬🇷 Greece: Prominent theatre director arrested for rape
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Gov. Bello receives 53 abducted passengers
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Shell rattled by restrictions on bank accounts, moves to vacate court order
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Shell rattled by restrictions on bank accounts, moves to vacate the order
🇳🇬 Nigeria: 17 women and their babies kidnapped in Katsina
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Kagara parents “Government yet to contact us over the abduction of our children”
🇷🇼 Rwanda: Life sentence for 19-year-old man who raped 17 boys
🇳🇿 New Zealand: Prominent businessman drugged and sexually assaulted a man after meeting at his house
🇬🇧 Matt Hancock’s ex-neighbor under investigation by UK’s medicine agency
Guns
🇦🇫 Harrowing video of children after Kabul attack shocks Afghanistan
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: Kabul blast leaves two dead amid escalating security incidents
🇳🇪 IED kills seven elections officials in Niger
🇱🇾 Libya: Interior minister survives assassination attempt near Tripoli
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia signs new weapons deal
🇸🇸 New levels of militia violence in South Sudan
🇰🇪 Why we did it — the Kenyan women and girls who joined al-Shabaab
Un/Diplomacy
🇪🇹🇸🇩 Sudan, Ethiopia trade accusations in border conflict
🇸🇴🇦🇪 The UAE is seeking to create instability in Somalia
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: What can be done now by outsiders and donors?
🇨🇻🇻🇪 Venezuelans protest the continued detention of diplomat in Cape Verde
🇨🇳🇺🇬 Ugandan president meets with a senior Chinese diplomat
🇨🇳🇬🇧 Britain to challenge China at UN over access to Xinjiang
🇫🇯🇫🇲 Fiji urges Micronesia to rethink plans to leave the Pacific Islands Forum
🇧🇯🇳🇬 Benin wants to become Nigeria’s “37th state”
Politics
🇰🇼 Kuwait MPs oppose lockdown
🇺🇦 Ukraine spends millions on Zelensky’s satellite
🇬🇧 UK: PM reportedly mulling over £10bn Irish sea tunnels with roundabout under the Isle of Man
🇬🇧 Why Baroness Cavendish’s ‘new Act of Union’ would do anything but save the UK
🇬🇧 Britain: We need to talk about terrorism
🇭🇹 Political crisis adds to the heavy burden on Haiti’s youth
🇲🇾 Malaysia: King proclaims Kuantan a city
🇵🇭 The Philippines: President Duterte loses out to two iconic women
🇯🇵 Japan: Seven more officials found to have been wined and dined by PM Suga’s son
🇹🇿 President Magufuli rules out lockdown for Tanzania
🇺🇬 Uganda: Bobi Wine under pressure to withdraw his petition
🇪🇨 Ecuador: Arauz says electoral second round in danger
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Step down or be impeached, coalition tells President Buhari
🇸🇴 Somalia is headed towards another tragic collapse
🇱🇸 Lesotho: Government to implement crippling alcohol and tobacco taxes
Tyranny
🇨🇾 Cyprus: Second protest passes off peacefully in Nicosia
🇬🇪 Georgia: Police detain eight demonstrators in front of parliament
🇳🇴 Anti-quarantine association formed in Norway
🇳🇱 Netherlands: Amsterdam police clear square of anti-lockdown demonstrators
🇲🇼 Malawi: Media expose of bribery in illegal charcoal trafficking
🇮🇶 Iraq’s ancient Christian community decimated by violence
🇳🇬 Nigeria: Lagos woman kept in pre-trial detention for six years
🇬🇧 Britain: Number of households living in destitution doubled in 2020
🇬🇧 Paradise? No, but the Britain of my youth was FREE
🇬🇧 What Britain didn’t learn from foot and mouth disease
🇩🇪 Germans are tiring of the lockdown
🇳🇿 New Zealand: Australian woman confined against her will after refusing Covid-19 test
🇮🇩 Indonesia to punish those who refuse to take the Covid-19 vaccine
🇮🇪 Ireland: Police to be deployed to ensure people don’t enjoy beaches or parks
Abuse
🇿🇦 South Africa: Minister shows her ignorance with ‘educated men don’t rape’ remarks
🇭🇺 Sexual humiliation of girls in a Hungarian secondary school’s freshman camp
Plants and Animals
🇧🇳 Brunei: Cockfighting match ends with 42 arrests
🇸🇬 Singapore: Wild boar injures two people
🇿🇼 Mushroom farming a new way of life in Zimbabwe
🇰🇪 Kenya: Three more giraffes electrocuted to death at the Soysambu conservancy
🇳🇿 New Zealand: Seven whales dead, 42 still stranded at Farewell Spit
🇨🇲 Cameroon: Lion killed after injuring eleven people
Climate
🇮🇩 Severe floods kill five in Indonesia’s capital
🇨🇾 Cyprus: Church’s solar park fails the green litmus test
🇺🇦 First screening of Ukraine’s major rivers made, drugs and chemicals found
🇬🇳 Fog delays delivery of Ebola vaccines for Guinea
🌋🇮🇩 Indonesia volcano erupts, spews red-hot lava
Silicon Overlords
📱 Facebook: Genocide is cool, but don’t threaten our profits
Propaganda
🇷🇺🇬🇧 The BBC and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to “weaken Russia”
Discovery
🔎 Pottery reveals the culinary habits of ancient people in Malta
🔭 The white dots in this image are not stars or galaxies but black holes
🔬 Crystals found in dino-era fossil bird complicates mystery of its diet
Money
🇨🇳🇷🇼 China cancels $6 million debt to Rwanda
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe’s $50 note imminent
🇿🇲 Bank of Zambia has so far misdiagnosed the key causes of our runaway inflation
🇰🇾 The Cayman Islands’ $2.5 billion credit bill
🇸🇩 Sudan devalues its currency as demanded by the IMF
Other
🇰🇼 Kuwait’s population fell by 2.2% in 2020
🇳🇬 Nigeria: How a strange disease forced the Benue government to shut a school
🇨🇩 DR Congo: 31 people dead from a plague outbreak
🇲🇼 Malawi: Billionaire disowns daughter over debts
🇱🇾 Libyan Coast Guard rescues 210 migrants
🇦🇪 On not being a princess in the UAE
🇳🇿 New Zealand: Christchurch preschooler dies after being found in a washing machine
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