Archives for February, 2026

Israeli President Isaac Herzog looks on during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the President's residence in Jerusalem, December 6, 2025. Abir Sultan/Pool via REUTERS

Pro-Palestine protest planned in Sydney against Israeli President Herzog's visit

Reuters

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said the government was ready to provide housing allowances to residents of buildings requiring evacuation

Lebanon building collapse toll rises to 9: civil defence

Agence France-Presse

Narges Mohammadi has not seen her children for eight years

Iran Nobel winner given new prison sentence, ends hunger strike: supporters

Agence France-Presse

Norway's Ambassador to the United Nations Mona Juul addresses the United Nations Security Council during a meeting, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S., April 5, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Norwegian diplomat steps down over Epstein ties, in widening scandal

Reuters

Police officers patrolled at Bondi Beach on Christmas Day as Australia's Prime Minister spoke of "sorrow" over a recent attack there

Israeli president to honour Bondi Beach attack victims on Australia visit

Agence France-Presse

FILE PHOTO: Ali Rahmani, son of Narges Mohammadi, an imprisoned Iranian human rights activist, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2023, speaks after receiving the award on behalf of his mother at Oslo City Hall, Norway December 10, 2023. NTB/Fredrik Varfjell via REUTERS /File Photo

Iran's Nobel winner Narges Mohammadi faces a new prison term of more than seven years

Reuters

A Palestinian man speaks to an Israeli soldier during an Israeli military multi-day raid in Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 21, 2026. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma

Israel to take more West Bank powers and relax settler land buys, media say

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Passengers walk past a Renfe 130 series Talgo Bombardier train at Miranda de Ebro station, Spain, February 8, 2025. REUTERS/Vincent West/File Photo

Saudi Arabia orders 20 high-speed trains from Spain's Talgo

Reuters

Morocco flood evacuees still shaken, waiting to return home

Agence France-Presse

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi adjusts glasses during a press conference following talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia, December 17, 2025. REUTERS/Ramil Sitdikov/Pool

Iran insists on right to enrichment, ready for confidence-building

Reuters

A US naval battle group led by the aircraft carrier USS Abrahem Lincoln is in waters near Iran. (Handout photograph)

Iran defies US threats to insist on right to enrich uranium

Agence France-Presse

An investigator works outside a residential building where the assassination attempt on Russian Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev took place in Moscow, Russia February 6, 2026. REUTERS/Anastasia Barashkova

Russia says man suspected of shooting top general has been detained in Dubai

Reuters

Labourers at a quarry outside Mandera town where the highest infection rates of the parasitic disease Kala-Azar have been recorded

Neglected killer: kala-azar disease surges in Kenya

Agence France-Presse

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the funeral of Israeli hostage Ran Gvili, an off-duty police officer who was killed fighting militants that had infiltrated Israel during the deadly October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas, and the last hostage recovered from Gaza whose remains were finally brought back to Israel on January 26, in the southern town of Meitar, Israel January 28, 2026. CHAIM GOLDBERG/Pool via REUTERS

Israel's Netanyahu expected to meet Trump in US on Wednesday and discuss Iran

Reuters

At the demonstration by the MEK, the group's leader Maryam Rajavi (C) welcomed former European Council chief Charles Michel (R) and former German economy minister Peter Altmaier on stage

Demonstrators in Berlin call for fall of Iran's Islamic republic

Agence France-Presse

Buses in a US military convoy transporting Islamic State group detainees being transferred to Iraq from Syria

Over 2,200 IS detainees transferred to Iraq from Syria: Iraqi official

Agence France-Presse