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Monday, February 16, Emperor’s Day
Anduril
Twenty-eight people are killed in a drone strike on a crowded market outside Sodari, North Kordofan, Sudan. (Al Arabiya English)
Two people are killed, including a child, and 12 others are injured in a motorcycle bombing near a police station in Bannu District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Sky News)
The Pikachu Illustrator Card, a Pokemon Trading Card sells at auction for $16,492,000, breaking the record for most expensive collectible card ever sold. (BBC)
Seven people are killed, 10 others are trapped and some escape in a fire at a chemical factory in Bhiwadi, Rajasthan, India. (NDTV)
Six people are killed and 46 others are injured when a bus overturns on the BR-153 near Marília, São Paulo, Brazil. (Al Jazeera)
At least 42 people are injured, including 10 critically, in a fire at an industrial unit in Faridabad, Haryana, India. (Hindustan Times)
Five people are injured when a passenger train derails near Goppenstein, Ferden, Valais, Switzerland. (BBC News)
Three are killed, including the suspect, and three others are injured in a mass shooting at an indoor ice rink in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States. (WPRI-TV)
Sunday, February 15, 2026
Cuba’s Habanos S.A. suspends the annual Habanos Cigar Festival in Havana amid a sharp decline in tourists and a severe shortage of fuel due to the ongoing U.S. blockade. (Havana Times)
The Cabinet of Israel approves new measures to expand land registration in the occupied West Bank and facilitate land purchases by Israeli settlers. (Reuters)
Eleven Palestinians, including several militants, are killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza. (BBC News)
Four people are killed in an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle targeting Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives in Majdal Anjar, Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon, near the Lebanon–Syria border. (Al Arabiya English)
Widespread power outages are reported by authorities in several oblasts in Russia, including Belgorod and Bryansk, following a large-scale Ukrainian missile and drone attack on Russian power stations. Bryansk Oblast governor Alexander Bogomaz confirms the regional capital Bryansk has lost most of its electricity and heat supply. (The Kyiv Independent) (RBC-Ukraine)
Jubaland forces and American troops conducted a four-day operation that killed more than 60 al-Shabaab insurgents in Lower Juba, Jubaland, Somalia. (Hiiraan Online) (Horseed Media)
Eleven people are killed and eight are injured after a bus collided with a trailer in Khairpur district, Pakistan. (Dawn)
Eight people are killed and two others are injured in an explosion and fire at a fireworks store in Donghai County, Jiangsu, China. (Xinhua)
Five people are killed and several others are injured when a car jumps a meridian and collides with a bus near Nelamangala in Karnataka, India. (The Hindu)
Two skiers are killed and another is injured in an avalanche on the Italian side of Mont Blanc. (The Independent)
One person is killed and 13 others are injured in a fire at a shopping mall in Marib, Marib Governorate, Yemen. (Reuters)
Myanmar‘s military government orders Timor-Leste‘s chargé d’affaires to leave the country within a week after the Chin Human Rights Organization reported that Timor-Leste initiated a universal jurisdiction case alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity against the junta. (AFP via CNA)
The Philippines signs military defense cooperation pacts with Estonia and Italy at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany. The agreements will particularly expand cooperation in cybersecurity and capacity building for their respective armed forces. (Manila Standard)
Ukraine‘s National Anti-Corruption Bureau arrest former energy minister German Galushchenko at the state border for his alleged involvement in a ₴4 billion (US$100 million) kickback scheme in the energy sector. (AFP via The Straits Times)
In stock car racing, 23XI‘s Tyler Reddick wins the 68th running of the Daytona 500. (The New York Times)
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Sunday, February 15, 2026
Epstein files UAE-basedDP World CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem resigns and leaves the company with immediate effect amid controversy over his connection to convicted American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, whom he exchanged hundreds of emails with over a decade. (BBC News)
France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom assess that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison after being poisoned by epibatidine, a neurotoxin found in South American poison dart frogs. (NBC News)
Eleven Palestinians are killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza. (BBC News)
Four people are killed in an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle targeting Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives in Majdal Anjar, Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon, near the Lebanon–Syria border. (Al Arabiya English)
Jubaland forces in collaboration with US forces, conducted a four-day special operation that killed more than 60 Al-Shabaab militant fighters in the Far Black Sea region, in the Lagta Hola-Wajeer area of Badhadhe District in the Lower Juba province. (Hiiraan Online) (Horseed Media)
Eleven people are killed and eight are injured after a bus collided with a trailer in Khairpur district, Pakistan. (Dawn)
Eight people are killed and two others are injured in an explosion and fire at a fireworks store in Donghai County, Jiangsu, China. (Xinhua)
Five people are killed and several others are injured when a car jumps a meridian and collides with a bus near Nelamangala in Karnataka, India. (The Hindu)
One person is killed and 13 others are injured in a fire at a shopping mall in Marib, Marib Governorate, Yemen. (Reuters)
Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau arrests former energy minister German Galushchenko at the state border for his alleged involvement in a ₴4 billion (US$100 million) kickback scheme in the energy sector. (AFP via The Straits Times)
Saturday, February 14, 2026
Gunmen launch simultaneous attacks on three communities in Niger State, Nigeria, killing at least 46 people and kidnapping a number of others. (AFP via The Daily Star)
Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund agree to modify conditions for a proposed US$8.2 billion, four-year lending program, easing certain requirements including planned tax increases on entrepreneurs above a higher revenue threshold. (Reuters)
Ethiopia revokes Reuters journalists’ accreditation in response to an article on February 10 that alleged the Ethiopian military was supporting the Rapid Support Forces in the Sudanese civil war by running secret training camps for its fighters. (Bloomberg)
Brazilian ski racer Lucas Pinheiro Braathen wins gold at the men’s giant slalom, becoming the first Brazilian and first South American athlete to win a medal at a Winter Olympics. (AP)
Friday, February 13th, 2026
The United States Armed Forces says it has conducted an airstrike on a boat suspected of transporting illegal narcotics in the Caribbean Sea, killing three people. (Reuters)
Two electricians are killed and five other people are injured in a Ukrainian missile strike on energy infrastructure and a residential area in Belgorod, Russia. (Reuters)
Seven people are killed in a multiple-vehicle collision in Hoskote, Karnataka, India. (The Hindu)
Six people are trampled to death by wild elephants near Hazaribagh district, Jharkand, India. (The Hindu)
Five people are killed after a police vehicle, carrying provincial police and government personnel that was securing the organizers of a national pageant, falls off a cliff in Don Victoriano, Misamis Occidental, Philippines. (GMA News)
Four people are killed after an Epic E1000 aircraft crashes at Steamboat Springs Airport in Colorado, United States. (Aviation Safety Network)
Three people are killed and 22 others are injured in a fire at a residential building in Budakeszi, Hungary. (AP)
Three people, including two British tourists, are killed in an avalanche near Val-d’Isère, France. (BBC News)
Eighteen-year-old Austin Thompson, the perpetrator of a mass shooting that killed five people in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., in 2022, is sentenced to life imprisonment without parole after pleading guilty to five counts of first-degree murder last month. (WRAL-TV)
2025–2026 Iranian protests Iran releases on bail three reformist political figures, including former legislator Ebrahim Asgharzadeh and Union of Islamic Iran People Party secretary-general Azar Mansouri, who were arrested during a recent crackdown on dissent. (Reuters)
The High Court of Justice rules that the British government’s decision to designate the pro-Palestinian activist group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization is unlawful and disproportionate, while allowing the ban to remain in force pending appeal. The judgment prompts police to suspend further arrests linked to support for the group. (CNN)
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party wins a landslide victory in the parliamentary elections, winning 209 seats in the first election since the July Revolution that toppled former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. (Reuters)
Angus Taylor replaces Sussan Ley as Leader of the Opposition following a leadership spill in the Liberal Party. Ley subsequently resigns from politics, triggering a by-election in her Farrer seat. (The Guardian)
Milagro Navas, the mayor of La Libertad Este and El Salvador’s only opposition-aligned mayor, announces that she will run for re-election in 2027. (El Mundo)
The end Sunday
Friday the 13th
Three people are killed and 22 more injured in a fire at a residential building in Budakeszi, Hungary. (AP)
Member of Parliament for Hume Angus Taylor replaces Sussan Ley as Leader of the Opposition following a leadership spill in the Liberal Party, symbolizing a power shift from the Moderate to the National Right faction. Ley subsequently resigns from politics, triggering a by-election in her seat of Farrer. (The Guardian)
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party wins a landslide victory in the parliamentary elections, winning 209 seats in the first election since the July Revolution that toppled Sheikh Hasina. (Reuters)
Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Former Norwegian prime minister Thorbjørn Jagland is charged with gross corruption over connections with American sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. (BBC News)
British International Investment suspends all future investments with DP World after their CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem was revealed to have maintained close ties with convicted American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including an exchange in 2009 in which he was revealed as the recipient of an email saying “I loved the torture video” from Epstein. (Arab News)
The International Olympic Committee disqualifies Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych from competing due to his helmet, which has images of Ukrainian athletes killed by Russian Armed Forces. (NPR)
Lufthansa staff conduct a one-day strike to protest the airline’s cost-cutting measures, grounding at least 460 flights and affecting nearly 70,000 passengers. (DW) (Reuters)
United States president Donald Trump revokes the Environmental Protection Agency‘s 2009 endangerment finding, which classified greenhouse gases as a threat to public health and formed the legal basis for federal climate regulations, and concurrently rescinds vehicle emission standards. (AFP via ABS-CBN)
The Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air reports that China’s carbon dioxide emissions remained flat or declined slightly in 2025 by about 0.3%, marking the first full calendar year in which emissions in China did not rise despite increasing energy demand, largely due to expanded renewable energy capacity. (AFP via France 24)
The Japanese fisheries agency seize a Chinese fishing vessel and arrest its captain after the vessel failed to stop for inspection within Japan’s exclusive economic zone off Nagasaki Prefecture, marking the first such seizure since 2022. (AFP via Philippine Daily Inquirer)
The United States announces the closure of its Drug Enforcement Administration office in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, citing unspecified corruption concerns within the mission. (AFP via Jamaica Observer)
Kenyan president William Ruto announces the reopening of the country’s Mandera border post with Somalia in April, ending a 15-year closure imposed in 2011 following attacks attributed to al-Shabaab, after earlier reopening plans were delayed due to renewed violence near the border. (AFP via Daily Sabah)
Projections of early morning results indicate that incumbent Barbadian prime minister Mia Mottley will win a third term in office, with the Barbados Labour Party securing all 30 seats in the House of Assembly for the third election in a row. (Reuters)
Portugal’s parliament approves, on first reading, a bill requiring explicit parental consent for children aged 13 to 16 to access social media, mandating age verification through the state’s electronic identification system and imposing fines of up to 2 percent of global revenue on companies that fail to comply. (Reuters)
At least 31 people are killed, 36 others are injured, and several are missing as Cyclone Gezani makes landfall in Madagascar. (DW)
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
The Federal Aviation Administration briefly issues a 10-day halt to all flights to and from El Paso International Airport in Texas, the United States, citing unspecified “special security reasons”, which is shortly thereafter lifted. The New York Times claims that the closure was related to anti-drone warfare tests at Fort Bliss, citing an anonymous source briefed on the matter. (The New York Times)
The United States Federal Aviation Administration briefly issues a ten-day halt to all flights to and from El Paso International Airport in Texas, citing unspecified “special security reasons”, which is shortly thereafter lifted after a balloon was mistaken for a drone. (The Guardian)
The United States Armed Forces withdraws from the al-Tanf military base, handing it over to the Syrian Armed Forces. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
The Volgograd refinery in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, is ablaze with multiple explosions reported after being attacked overnight by Ukrainian drones. Volgograd International Airport is closed in response to the attack. (The Kyiv Indpendent)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signs law allowing citizens over 60 to join military during wartime.(The Kyiv Independent)
The Inter-American Development Bank announces that it will provide US$1.3 billion in financing to El Salvador in 2026, targeting housing and tourism. (Reuters)
A crowd linked to the Southern Transitional Council attempts to storm a local government building in Ataq, Yemen. Security forces open fire, killing five people and wounding 39 more. (Al Jazeera)
Two pilots are killed after assailants shoot at a landing Smart Air flight in Boven Digoel Regency, South Papua, Indonesia, carrying 15 people. Another person is killed after a convoy is attacked. (Reuters)
The End
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