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Global news / 8 February 2026

8 February 2026

Snippets of news from around the globe

GAZA

Middle East / 8 February 2026

Rafah reopening allows Palestinians to cross between Egypt and Gaza

8 February 2026

RSF

Sudan / 8 February 2026

Drone attack by paramilitary group kills at least 24

8 February 2026

clashes

Milan protests / 8 February 2026

Italian police fire tear gas at protesters near Winter Olympics venue

8 February 2026

putin and trump

South Africa / 8 February 2026

SA communists welcome Russia and US nuclear talks

8 February 2026

nigeria

Extremist attacks / 8 February 2026

Gunmen in Nigeria kill 3 and kidnap 11

8 February 2026

Greece / 8 February 2026

Police detain 313 in raid on university

8 February 2026

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

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, February 2, 2026

United States / 3 February 2026

Trump call on Republicans to 'nationalise' voting for midterm elections

3 February 2026

Chinese President Xi Jinping during a signing ceremony with Uruguay's President Yamandu Orsi, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, February 3, 2026

China / 3 February 2026

China's Xi calls for a more 'equal and multipolar world'

3 February 2026

President of Argentina Javier Milei speaks during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2026

Argentina / 3 February 2026

Argentina's Milei cut more than 63,000 public sector jobs in two years, new report says

3 February 2026

Drivers wait in line to fill up at a petrol station in Havana, Cuba, January 27, 2026

Latin America / 3 February 2026

Cuba's National Assembly rejects Trump's ‘economic war’

3 February 2026

Nigeria / 3 February 2026

Nine charged for deadly attack in Nigeria that killed over 150

3 February 2026

People gather in front of a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Ain Qana village, south Lebanon, February 2, 2026

Round-up / 2 February 2026

World in brief: February 2, 2026

2 February 2026

Palestinian patient Mohammed Abu Mustafa, 17, accompanied by his mother, Randa, board a vehicle in Khan Younis on their way to the Rafah crossing, as they leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment abroad, Monday, Feb. 2, 2026.

Middle East / 2 February 2026

Medical evacuees begin slowly leaving Gaza through Rafah crossing

2 February 2026

A war crimes prosecutor examines the damaged coal miners bus that was hit by Russian drone killing 15 in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, February 1, 2026

Eastern Europe / 2 February 2026

Russia-Ukraine talks to restart as drone attacks continue

2 February 2026

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting, in Tehran, Iran, February 1, 2026

Middle East / 2 February 2026

Iran summons EU ambassadors over Guard's terrorist designation

2 February 2026

Presidential candidate Laura Fernández addresses supporters after polls closed in San Jose, Costa Rica, February 1, 2026

Latin America / 2 February 2026

Conservative wins Costa Rica presidential elections

2 February 2026

Norway's Marius Borg Hoiby and Crown Princess Mette-Marit in Oslo, June 16, 2022

Northern Europe / 2 February 2026

Son of Norway's crown princess with Epstein ties arrested before his trial on rape and other charges

2 February 2026

Workers' Rights / 2 February 2026

Tens of thousands of German transport workers stage strike

2 February 2026

Hundreds of Danish veterans, many of whom fought alongside U.S. troops, stage a silent protest as they march from Kastellet to the American embassy in Copenhagen, January 31, 2026

Round-up / 1 February 2026

World in brief: February 1, 2026

1 February 2026

The Sea-Watch 5 in Central Mediterranean, 14 January 2026

Mediterranean / 1 February 2026

Italy detains refugee rescue ship after crew refuse to violate international law

1 February 2026

Ambulances line up to enter the Egyptian gate of the Rafah crossing on the way to the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, Egypt, February 1, 2026

Middle East / 1 February 2026

Israel to reopen Gaza's Rafah crossing with Egypt following bloodiest day of the ‘ceasefire’

1 February 2026

Israel killed at least 31 Palestinians, including several children, in air strikes on Gaza on Saturday

In this handout photo released by the Islamic Consultative Assembly News Agency (ICANA) Iranian lawmakers attend a session of parliament as they wear the Revolutionary Guard's uniform, in Tehran, Iran, February 1, 2026. Photo: Hamed Malekpour/ICANA via AP

Middle East / 1 February 2026

Any US attack will spark ‘regional war,’ Iran's supreme leader says

1 February 2026

Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O'Neill MLA at the Belfast Harbour Commissioner's Office, in Belfast, January 22, 2026

Northern Ireland / 1 February 2026

British government giving veterans ‘preferential treatment’ in legacy approach, First Minister O’Neill says

1 February 2026

An order to release 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from detention, which included a picture of the boy and Bible verse references under the signature of U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, is photographed Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026

US / 1 February 2026

Judge orders release of 5-year-old boy and father from Texas immigration detention centre

1 February 2026

Demonstrators hold signs, one reading, at left, reading

Central Europe / 1 February 2026

Huge protest held against Hungarian minister's discriminatory comments about Roma people

1 February 2026

Drivers wait in a long line to enter a gas station in Havana, Cuba, January 30, 2026

The Americas / 1 February 2026

Trump claims US and Cuba have begun talks after his attempt to cut off island's oil

1 February 2026

Meanwhile, US sends its first charge d’affaires to Venezuela in seven years after Maduro kidnapping

Trucks line up to enter the Egyptian gate of the Rafah crossing, heading for inspection by Israeli authorities before entering the Gaza Strip, January 27, 2026

Round-up / 30 January 2026

World in brief: January 30, 2026

30 January 2026

An EA-18G Growler launching from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Indian Ocean on January 23, 2026. Photo: Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Daniel Kimmelman/U.S. Navy via AP

Middle East / 30 January 2026

US-Iran tensions rise as US warship arrives off Israel

30 January 2026

Southern Europe / 30 January 2026

Human rights groups call on Greek MPs to vote against Bill seeking criminalisation of refugee solidarity

30 January 2026

Ethiopian Airlines planes are parked at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 11, 2019

East Africa / 30 January 2026

Ethiopia's national airline cancels flights to and from Tigray as fears of new conflict grow

30 January 2026

Drivers wait in line to fill up at a gas station in Havana, Cuba, January 27, 2026

Latin America / 30 January 2026

US to place extra tariffs on the goods of any country that sends or sells oil to Cuba

30 January 2026

A PDVSA worker of the state-owned oil company carries a cutout of former President Nicolas Maduro dressed as an oil worker during a rally, January 29, 2026

Venezuela / 30 January 2026

Thousands march in Caracas demanding return of Maduro

30 January 2026

People pass by damaged cars near an apartment building after a Russian attack in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, January 28, 2026

Eastern Europe / 30 January 2026

Ukrainians wait for signs that Russia abides by promise not to strike country's power grid

30 January 2026

Palestinians walk amid buildings destroyed by Israeli air and ground operations in Gaza City, January 29, 2026

Middle East / 30 January 2026

Israel returns bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza in last ceasefire hostage exchange

30 January 2026

Flood waters cover the Chibuto-Chaimite road in Gaza province, Mozambique, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026

World / 29 January 2026

World in brief: January 29, 2026

29 January 2026