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Donald Tusk says intelligence points to possible Russian drone and missile provocations against countries supporting Kyiv, while NATO and Britain expand resilience planning.

Mexico’s president says her latest call with Donald Trump produced progress toward a bilateral trade agreement, but major tariff questions remain unresolved for steel, aluminium and vehicles.

Syrian authorities have arrested five former officers accused of involvement in strikes on civilians, opening a new accountability test for the country’s post-Assad transition.

The State Department has approved a possible sale of 48 F-35 fighters to Saudi Arabia, beginning a congressional review that could reshape Gulf air power and raise questions about Israel’s qualitative military edge.

Belarus released 25 political prisoners and granted limited sanctions relief to two state-linked companies, but the smaller-than-expected deal has exposed growing friction in the Minsk–Washington channel.

The defeat of government-aligned forces on Yemen’s Red Sea coast has triggered an internal investigation and an urgent attempt to rebuild command structures near one of the world’s most important maritime chokepoints.

Washington has extended visa restrictions to Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization officials, preventing Mahmoud Abbas from attending the annual UN gathering in New York unless remote participation is authorised.

France is using a rare presidential visit to its North Atlantic territory to reinforce maritime sovereignty, polar cooperation and energy ties with Canada as European supply routes face renewed pressure.

A UN-backed fact-finding mission has attributed two February strikes to US forces on a reasonable-grounds standard, while also documenting alleged crimes against humanity by Iranian authorities during protests.

Macron’s government must prepare additional safeguards for sensitive infrastructure as European governments respond to warnings of intensifying Russian hybrid activity.

Eight Carpathian countries created a permanent cooperation format focused on security, energy, transport, investment and cross-border development.

A direct hit on a residential building killed two city-council employees, injured at least eight people and left rescuers searching the rubble.

Voting for all 450 State Duma seats opened under tight political controls, including balloting organised in occupied Ukrainian territory.

The Security Council rejected a US-backed extension for its Iran panel of experts, leaving sanctions in force but removing their independent monitoring mechanism.

The prospective pact would expand the American military role while preserving Danish sovereignty and Greenlandic self-determination, but it still requires signatures and parliamentary approval.

The statute targets Russian officials, banks, energy networks and sanctions evasion while giving the president broad tariff powers over Russia and leading buyers of Russian energy.

An explosives-laden vehicle and ensuing gun battle struck a police facility during Friday prayers in northwestern Pakistan, intensifying concern over militant violence near the Afghan border.

The new OHCHR assessment attributes 89% of verified cases to Russian authorities and 11% to Ukrainian authorities, while warning that underreporting means the documented total is not comprehensive.

European Commission data show unprecedented average pump prices, reviving demands for windfall taxation while officials say supplies remain secure for now.

Nine proposed regional bodies could influence investment and scrutinise bills and sewage failures, extending Britain’s wider overhaul of water regulation without yet committing the government to a final model.

The procedural victory clears a final vote while exposing a dispute over giving the president broad tariff powers against major buyers of Russian energy.

Democrats divided as the chamber voted to table the resolution, ending the third such push in two years without a trial.

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy made the commitment after meeting technology companies over harassment of charity volunteers and public-sector workers.

The ruling requires congressional approval for new memorial inscriptions as the venue's board votes to close most of the building for repairs.

Seven Republicans joined Democrats in a renewed challenge to President Donald Trump’s authority, but the resolution still faces the Senate and a likely veto.

Washington says officials and other individuals who advance race-based discrimination may be denied entry, extending a widening bilateral confrontation.

The Commission president used her annual address to frame defence, Ukraine, migration and strategic independence as interconnected tests of Europe’s capacity to act.

The first South Korean government damages victory directly against Pyongyang is legally significant but likely impossible to enforce under current relations.

The closed prosecution of a scholar with extensive foreign academic ties underscores the expanding use of Russian state-security laws against researchers and international contacts.

New production data show how Ukraine’s long-range campaign is constraining Russian refining capacity and deepening an already visible domestic fuel shortage.

The court maintained a national arrest warrant after finding that an EU judgment did not remove a separate domestic basis for the former Catalan president’s prosecution.

Transmission is slowing in some areas, but international responders say continuing growth elsewhere and uncertain infection chains make any declaration of a turning point premature.

Residents and rescue crews dug through concrete by hand as the failure of a previously damaged residential block exposed Gaza’s continuing shelter and rubble-removal crisis.

The students hold places and funding at Belgian institutions but cannot complete visa procedures or leave Gaza after ministers tied their case to a wider migration dispute.

New conflict data point to another record year across Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger as military governments struggle to contain expanding al-Qaeda- and Islamic State-linked networks.

A new global count records 124 land and environmental defenders killed in 2025, while Indigenous communities build civilian protection networks against armed groups and illegal economies.

The latest fiscal estimate adds inflation and replenishment risks to earlier warnings about depleted munitions, making the war’s domestic economic effects a growing policy issue.

The proposed Western Downs facility would give Anthropic its first Australian data centre while intensifying scrutiny of power generation, water use and local infrastructure.

The Australian state’s governing party has reversed its position and backed suspicionless public searches with metal-detection wands, sharpening debate over effectiveness and racial profiling.

The foreign minister’s second wartime visit puts nuclear pressure, sanctions and the US-Iran conflict on China’s agenda before Xi Jinping’s expected Washington trip.

A possible policy reversal would place the UK among the proposed lender’s founders while reviving questions about capital costs and overlapping European financing schemes.

The former Golden Dawn spokesman has completed part of a 13-year sentence, but court precedents create substantial barriers to any new electoral vehicle he seeks to lead.

The attacks damaged tents at Abu Khadra camp and other locations, underscoring the continuing exposure of displaced civilians despite the 2025 ceasefire framework.

Damage to the kingdom's principal Hormuz-bypass route is now disrupting export commitments as overlapping Gulf and Red Sea risks squeeze alternative shipping corridors.

Fifty-one people were rescued as aircraft and vessels searched rough waters on the increasingly important route between North Africa and Crete.

The Climate Change Committee says a third runway is incompatible with Britain’s present carbon pathway unless aviation pays for permanent removals and accelerates cleaner fuels and efficiency.

Dong Jun used the Xiangshan Forum to condemn coercion, militarism and historical revisionism as regional tensions over Taiwan and maritime disputes shadowed the gathering.