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South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa (right) with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a state visit at Union Building in Pretoria, South Africa, August 22, 2023

World / 6 February 2026

World in brief: February 6, 2026

6 February 2026

Investigators leave an apartment building where deputy chief of Russian military intelligence Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev was shot, in Moscow, Russia, February 6, 2026

Russia-Ukraine / 6 February 2026

Senior Russian military intelligence leader shot in Moscow

6 February 2026

White House Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff speaks at an event in the Oval Office of the White House, January 29, 2026, in Washington

World / 6 February 2026

Iran and US end second round of unofficial talks

6 February 2026

Government supporters call for the release of former President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, a month after U.S. forces captured them, in Caracas, Venezuela, February 3, 2026

Venezuela / 6 February 2026

Caracas to host legal summit next week on kidnapping of Maduro

6 February 2026

Israeli soldiers aim their weapons during a military operation at a market in the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank, as Palestinians stand nearby, February 1, 2026

West Bank / 6 February 2026

Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank displaced nearly 700 Palestinians in January

6 February 2026

India / 6 February 2026

At least 18 killed in illegally operated mine in India

6 February 2026

Pakistani security officers and rescue worker gather at the site of a bomb explosion at a Shiite mosque, in Islamabad, Pakistan, February 6, 2026

Pakistan / 6 February 2026

Suicide bombing at a Shi’ite mosque near Islamabad kills at least 31

6 February 2026

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, is welcomed by an unidentified Omani official, centre, upon his arrival at Muscat, Oman, May 11, 2025. Photo: Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP

World / 5 February 2026

Iran and US agree to nuclear talks

5 February 2026

View of the flooding in the town of Grazalema on February 5, 2026, affected by flooding during heavy rains that hit southern Andalusia

World / 5 February 2026

World in brief: February 5, 2026

5 February 2026

Firefighters extinguish a fire at a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Ain Qana village, south Lebanon, February 2, 2026

Middle East / 5 February 2026

Israeli air attacks on Lebanon reach highest levels since ceasefire

5 February 2026

People fill water containers at a free distribution point due to water outages in Khartoum, Sudan, on January 30, 2026

Sudan / 5 February 2026

Famine spreads to more towns in Sudan's Darfur region

5 February 2026

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping via videoconference at the Kremlin in Moscow, February 4, 2026

World / 5 February 2026

Chinese and Russian leaders meet in video summit

5 February 2026

South Sudan / 5 February 2026

South Sudan hospital hit by government air attack, say medics

5 February 2026

A health worker administers a dose of the measles vaccine outside a public hospital in Mexico City, February 4, 2026

World / 5 February 2026

Measles cases surge across the Americas

5 February 2026

Myanmar military leader Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing (centre) visits a polling station during the final round of general election in Mandalay, central Myanmar, January 25, 2026

Myanmar / 5 February 2026

Myanmar's military-backed party declared election winners

5 February 2026

Maja T., a German anti-fascist activist, accused of assaulting and injuring neo-Nazis in Budapest in Feb. 2023, grimaces as the sentence is read in court in Budapest, Hungary, February 4, 2026, at the Budapest-Capital Regional Court

World / 4 February 2026

World in brief: February 4, 2026

4 February 2026

U.S. President Barack Obama (left) and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev (right) shake hands at a news conference at the Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, April 8, 2010, after signing the New START treaty reducing long-range nuclear weapons

World / 4 February 2026

Peace campaigners warn of arms race as New Start treaty expires

4 February 2026

Palestinian Raed al-Khabba carries his 3-month-old daughter Mira al-Khabbaz, who was killed in an Israeli military strike, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, February 4, 2026

Gaza / 4 February 2026

Israeli forces kill another 19 Palestinians in Gaza

4 February 2026

Seif al-Islam Gadhafi speaks to the media at a press conference in a hotel in Tripoli, Libya, February 25, 2011

Libya / 4 February 2026

Son of former Libyan leader Gadaffi is shot dead

4 February 2026

A man walks between American and Cuban flags in Havana, February 1, 2026

Latin America / 4 February 2026

Anti-Cuban US escalation justified only by hatred, say unions

4 February 2026

Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) combatants welcome the arrival of a convoy Syria's Interior Ministry security forces, deployed under an agreement aimed at stabilizing a ceasefire, in Qamishli, eastern Syria, February 3, 2026

Syria / 4 February 2026

Syrian security forces continue to deploy in Kurdish-dominated areas

4 February 2026

Greek coast guard officers carry out rescue operations at a port on the eastern Aegean island of Chios, Greece, February 3, 2026, after a collision between a migrant speedboat and a coast guard patrol vessel killed multiple people, authorities said

Greece / 4 February 2026

Greek rescuers search for survivors after deadly collision between patrol vessel and migrant boat

4 February 2026

The opening page of X is displayed on a computer and phone, October 16, 2023, in Sydney

World / 3 February 2026

World in brief: February 3, 2026

3 February 2026

A UN vehicle escorts ambulances and a bus carrying Palestinian patients in Khan Younis as they travel to the Rafah crossing to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment abroad, February 3, 2026

Middle East / 3 February 2026

Treatment of Palestinians crossing Rafah is ‘collective punishment,’ Hamas says

3 February 2026