🌐 World News for February 23, 2021

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

Crime and Punishment

🇬🇧 Britain: Earl of Strathmore jailed for sexual assault at Glamis Castle

🇿🇦 South Africa: Hawks arrest suspected trader in prehistoric art

🇬🇾 Guyana: Man remanded to prison for harboring Mazaruni prison escapees

🇱🇾 Libya: Six human smugglers arrested

🇳🇴 Norway: 18-year-old charged with attempted murder in Oslo

🇸🇱 Sierra Leone: More revelations of alleged corruption in the office of the Chief Minister

🇯🇲 Jamaica: Over 200 murders already this year

🇳🇿 New Zealand: Man jailed after a six-hour assault on a pregnant woman

Guns

🇳🇬 Nigeria: Smuggled diary tells the story of women abducted by Boko Haram

🇳🇬 Nigeria: Boko Haram will soon infiltrate killer-herdsmen, bandits

🇳🇬 Nigeria: Battle of supremacy rages in Boko Haram/ISWAP camps

🇨🇩 DR Congo: Italian ambassador among 3 killed in attack on UN convoy

🇮🇱 When the Israeli woman crossed the Syrian border, soldiers were looking the wrong way

🇮🇱🇸🇾 Who knew that Israel was kidnapping Syrian shepherds?

🇲🇿 Mozambique: Terrorists strike Quionga

Un/Diplomacy

🇶🇦🇦🇪 UAE and Qatar hold first meeting since Gulf detente

🇪🇹🇩🇪 German-Ethiopian relations suffer over Tigray

🇱🇾🇹🇷 Turkish firm builds the biggest concrete factory in Libya

🇫🇷🇹🇷 Turkey’s French teachers caught in diplomatic crosshairs

🇮🇷🇹🇯 Iran’s Interior Minister arrives in Tajikistan for bilateral talks

🇯🇵🇲🇺 Japan extends ¥30 billion in loans to Mauritius after oil spill

🇮🇩🇲🇲 Myanmar people’s wishes must be respected: Indonesian foreign minister

🇮🇳🇲🇲 India’s muted response to Myanmar military coup seen as a strategic move

🇪🇹🇸🇩 Ethiopia seeks AU support in resolving border row with Sudan

🇪🇹🇸🇩 Sudan ‘insulted’ by Ethiopia’s accusation on border tiff

Politics

🇺🇬 Bobi Wine withdraws case challenging Uganda’s presidential election

🇿🇦 South Africa: Zondo asks Constitutional Court to jail Zuma for two years for continued defiance

🇿🇦 South Africa: The Zondo Commission’s findings must not be allowed to go the way of the TRC’s

🇬🇪 Garibashvili — Georgia’s former, soon to be new PM

🇬🇪 Why did a political crisis break out in Georgia and how serious is it?

🇬🇪 Georgia: Police raid opposition HQ, arrest leader

🇫🇷 France: Outcry after migrant children placed in a detention center

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: Alex Salmond claims senior SNP staff plotted to have him imprisoned

🇩🇲 Dominica: Government confident it can deliver geothermal power plant by 2022

🇭🇹 Haiti: Moise downplays his country’s crisis at UN

🇲🇾 Malaysia: Island reclamation plan divides residents

🇿🇲 Zambia: Do we even need the intelligence services?

🔴 The Abkhaz Orthodox Church’s bid for independence

🇬🇧 Britain: Boris Johnson’s Isle of Man roundabout plan ‘not credible’, top architect warns

🇬🇧 UK: The utterly useless Keir Starmer

🇲🇾 Malaysia halts deportation of Myanmar asylum seekers

Tyranny

🇺🇬 Uganda: Total Oil won’t let villagers bury their dead

🇺🇬 Uganda: Trial of civilians in military courts violates human rights

🇦🇿 Azerbaijan: Quarantine more deadly than the virus itself

🇮🇪 Ireland: Teenage students are suffering under lockdown

🇺🇳 Pandemic used as ‘pretext’ to crush dissent, U.N. says

🇱🇸 Lesotho: Time to decolonize, redefine global health

🇪🇸 Spain: 109 people arrested over rapper Pablo Hasél protests

Abuse

🇳🇴 Norway: 46% of women in the military have experienced sexual harassment

🇳🇬 Nigeria: NTA, NCAC join forces to combat rape epidemic

🇶🇦 German beach volleyball duo boycott Qatar over bikini issue

🇬🇷 Greece: Theatre director accused of rape taught refugee children

Plants and Animals

🇰🇾 Cayman Islands: Deadly coral disease moves closer to Seven Mile Beach

🇹🇭 Thailand: FDA wants cannabis put on its list of essential medicines

🇳🇿 Stranded whales refloated in New Zealand but concerns remain

Climate

🇰🇪 Kenya: Call for ban on plastic bottles as oceans choke on pollution

Silicon Overlords

📱🇪🇸 Google in talks with Spanish publishers

📱🇦🇺 Facebook to restore Australia news pages as deal reached on media law

Propaganda

🇰🇭 Cambodia’s internet clampdown: a ‘great firewall’, or no worse than the west?

🇧🇮 Burundi: Government lifts sanctions on local radio station

🇰🇪 Dirty tricks were used to censor a report on gambling in Kenya

🇹🇩 Chad: Man sentenced to three years in jail for posting about President Déby’s health

🇲🇿 Mozambique: Zitamar editor Tom Bowker expelled as part of a press crackdown

🇷🇼 Rwanda: The dictator who fooled the West

Discovery

🔎 End of Neanderthals linked to flip of Earth’s magnetic poles

✍️ Letters from Adolf Hitler’s father give a rare glimpse into his upbringing

🔭 Ghost particle from shredded star reveals cosmic particle accelerator

🇦🇺 Kangaroo painting Australia’s oldest aboriginal rock art

Money

🇺🇬 Uganda: Man invents 3D printed money identifier for the visually impaired

🇸🇩 Sudan floats currency as it races to stop cash crunch

Other

🇸🇪 Sweden sees its lowest population growth in 15 years

🇯🇵 Japan recorded fewer deaths in 2020 for the first time in 11 years

🇳🇴 Norway: Munch wrote ‘madman’ sentence on ‘The Scream’

🇹🇹 Trinidad: Taxi drivers to raise standards after Bharatt’s death

🇬🇮 Gibraltar: Two seafarers remain critical as repairs to damaged cargo ship are completed

🇮🇹 Italy ‘misled WHO on pandemic readiness’ weeks before Covid outbreak

🇫🇷 France: Marie-Antoinette’s personal theatre gets a lockdown makeover

🇵🇳 Pitcairn: A sailor’s incredible survival story of 16 hours adrift

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