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Tarique Rahman
- The Nationalist Party, led by Tarique Rahman (pictured), wins the Bangladeshi general election.
- In the Barbadian general election, the Labour Party wins a third term and every seat in the House of Assembly.
- Shootings at a residence and a school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, leave nine people dead.
- In American football, the Seattle Seahawks defeat the New England Patriots to win the Super Bowl.
February 16, 2026 (Monday)
February 15, 2026 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Middle Eastern crisis
- Gaza war
- Eleven Palestinians, including several militants, are killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza. (BBC News)
- Hezbollah–Israel conflict
- 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)
- Gaza war
- Somali Civil War
- Jubaland forces and American troops conducted a four-day operation that killed more than 60 Al-Shabaab fighters in Lower Juba, Jubaland, Somalia. (Hiiraan Online) (Horseed Media)
Disasters and accidents
- 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)
International relations
- Myanmar–Timor-Leste relations, War crimes in the Myanmar civil war
- 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)
Law and crime
- Operation Midas
- 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)
Politics and elections
- Israeli occupation of the West Bank
- The Cabinet of Israel approves new measures to expand land registration in the occupied West Bank and facilitate land purchases by Israeli settlers. (Reuters)
Sports
- 2026 NASCAR Cup Series
- 2026 Daytona 500
- In stock car racing, 23XI's Tyler Reddick wins the 68th running of the Daytona 500. (The New York Times)
- 2026 Daytona 500
February 14, 2026 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Communal conflicts in Nigeria
- 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)
- Mexican drug war
- Gunmen attacked a bar located in an exclusive area in the city of Puebla, left three civilians killed and five more wounded. Authorities confirmed the arrest of four criminals related with the attack. (Aristegui Noticias)
Business and economy
- Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund
- 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)
International relations
- Ethiopia–Sudan relations
- 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)
Law and crime
- Death and funeral of Alexei Navalny
- 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)
Sports
- 2026 Winter Olympics
- 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)
February 13, 2026 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Operation Southern Spear
- United States strikes on alleged drug traffickers during Operation Southern Spear
- 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)
- United States strikes on alleged drug traffickers during Operation Southern Spear
- Russo-Ukrainian war
- Attacks in Russia during the Russo-Ukrainian war
- 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)
- Attacks in Russia during the Russo-Ukrainian war
Business and economy
- Epstein files
- UAE-based DP 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)
Disasters and accidents
- 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)
Law and crime
- 2022 Raleigh shootings
- 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)
- United Kingdom and the Gaza war
- 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)
Politics and elections
- 2026 Bangladeshi general election
- 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)
- 2026 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill
- 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)
- 2027 Salvadoran legislative election
- 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)
February 12, 2026 (Thursday)
Business and economy
- German economic crisis
- 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)
Disasters and accidents
- 2025–26 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
- At least 31 people are killed, 36 others are injured, and several are missing as Cyclone Gezani makes landfall in Madagascar. (DW)
Health and environment
- Environmental policy of the second Trump administration
- 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)
- Greenhouse gas emissions by China
- 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)
International relations
- China–Japan relations
- 2025–2026 China–Japan diplomatic crisis
- The Japanese fisheries agency seize a Chinese fishing vessel and arrest its captain who 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)
- 2025–2026 China–Japan diplomatic crisis
- Dominican Republic–United States relations
- 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)
- Kenya–Somalia relations, Somali Civil War
- 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)
Law and crime
- Connections of Jeffrey Epstein
- Former Norwegian prime minister Thorbjørn Jagland is charged with gross corruption over connections with American sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. (BBC News)
- Two people are killed and another is injured in a shooting at a South Carolina State University dormitory building in Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States. (NBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2026 Bangladeshi general election
- Bangladeshis vote to elect members of the Jatiya Sangsad. (BBC News)
- 2026 Barbadian general election
- 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)
- Internet in Portugal
- 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)
Sports
- 2026 Winter Olympics
- 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)
February 11, 2026 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian war
- Attacks in Russia during the Russo-Ukrainian war
- 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) (RBC-Ukraine)
- Kharkiv strikes
- Four people are killed and two others are injured in a Russian airstrike on Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. (AFP via The Hindu)
- Attacks in Russia during the Russo-Ukrainian war
- Yemeni civil war
- Southern Transitional Council conflict
- 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)
- Southern Transitional Council conflict
- Papua conflict
- 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)
- Syrian conflict, US intervention in Syria
- The United States Armed Forces withdraws from the al-Tanf military base, handing it over to the Syrian Armed Forces. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
Business and economy
- Connections of Jeffrey Epstein
- 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)
- Economy of El Salvador
- 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)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 15 people are killed, six others are rescued and six are reported missing when a ferry capsizes on the Nile River in Shendi District, River Nile State, Sudan. (AP)
International relations
- The United States Federal Aviation Administration briefly issues a halt to all flights to and from El Paso International Airport in Texas, due to a balloon that was mistaken for a drone. (The Guardian)
Law and crime
- 2026 Anapa college shooting
- A security guard is killed and three others are injured in a shooting at a technical college in Anapa, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. (AA)
- 2026 Hat Yai school shooting
- One person is killed and three others are injured, including the perpetrator, in a school shooting in Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand. (AFP via Philippine Daily Inquirer)
- The Constitutional Court of Slovakia suspends a criminal code amendment that would bar courts from accepting testimony from cooperating witnesses who previously provided false statements. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2026 Barbadian general election
- Barbadians vote to elect the 30 members of the House of Assembly. (The Guardian)
February 10, 2026 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Gaza war
- Five Palestinians are killed by Israeli strikes and gunfire on the Gaza Strip. (RTÉ News)
- Gaza war
- Russo-Ukrainian war
- Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
- Two people are killed in a Russian airstrike on Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent)
- Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
- Boko Haram insurgency, Nigeria–United States relations
- A United States military official confirms that the U.S. will deploy 200 soldiers to Nigeria to help train the Nigerian military and provide logistical support against Boko Haram and other Islamic terrorist groups. (AA)
- Syrian conflict
- Four people are killed and eight others are wounded after their vehicle strikes a land mine in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria. In a separate incident, a tractor triggers a land mine in the village of Taanah, Aleppo Governorate, killing one person. (MENA via The New Arab)
Arts and culture
- Ireland launches a permanent basic-income programme for the arts that pays 2,000 creative workers €325 (US$387) per week for three years, following a government trial that began in 2022, and which culture minister Patrick O'Donovan describes as the first permanent scheme of its kind worldwide. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- Connections of Jeffrey Epstein
- Canadian pensions funder La Caisse suspends all future ventures with multinational logistics company DP World following the disclosure by the U.S. Department of Justice that its CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem had maintained close ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. (The Gazette)
- United States embargo against Cuba, Cuba–Mexico relations, Canada–Mexico relations United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
- Mexico confirms it has suspended all shipments of fuel to Cuba to avoid punitive tariffs by the United States which is enforcing an oil blockade of the island, while vowing to continue shipments of humanitarian aid. (AA)
- Canadian airlines Air Transat and WestJet suspend all flights to Cuba amid a shortage of fuel for commercial aviation, and say efforts are underway to return Canadians stranded on the island. (Bloomberg)
Disasters and accidents
- Six people are killed after a car collided with a truck in Dausa district, India. (PTI via The Hindu)
- A Pemex-owned pipeline explodes in Oaxaca, Mexico, killing three people and injuring six others. (Reuters)
- A Starsky Aviation Fokker 50 aircraft veers off a runway at Aden Adde International Airport to a nearby beach in Mogadishu, Somalia, due to a technical error. All 55 people on board survive. (AP) (BBC News)
International relations
- Azerbaijan–United States relations
- Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev and United States vice president JD Vance sign a strategic partnership agreement in Baku covering economic and security cooperation. (AFP via France 24)
- Palau–United States relations
- The United States Department of State bans Palauan senate president Hokkons Baules and his family from entering the country due to alleged corruption. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- 2026 Tumbler Ridge shooting
- Nine people are killed, including the suspect, in a school shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada. (CBC News) (The Jerusalem Post)
- Corruption in Malaysia
- The Malaysian federal court reinstates the bribery conviction and six-year prison sentence of former Federal Land Development Authority chairperson Mohd Isa Abdul Samad after overturning a 2024 acquittal on nine corruption counts linked to a hotel purchase. (Reuters)
- Kidnappings in Colombia
- Colombian senator Aida Quilcué and her two bodyguards are abducted from their car by unidentified assailants while traveling in Cauca Department. Security forces later locate the empty car, and Quilcué and her escorts are released unharmed following government warnings. (AFP via Philippine Daily Inquirer)
- Recognition of same-sex unions in the Philippines
- The Philippine supreme court rules that same-sex partners may qualify as co-owners of property under the Family Code when both contribute to its acquisition, reversing lower-court decisions in a dispute between two former partners in Metro Manila. (BBC News)
- War on drugs
- Europol says it has dismantled a drug trafficking network that was smuggling cocaine into Iceland, resulting in the arrests of 24 people. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Corruption in Albania
- Protesters clash with riot police in Tirana, Albania, amid protests over corruption allegations involving deputy prime minister Belinda Balluku. At least sixteen people are injured while police say thirteen people have been arrested. (AP)
- Elections in Zimbabwe
- Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa's cabinet approves draft constitutional amendments that extend presidential term limits from five to seven years and replace direct presidential elections with parliamentary selection, which would allow Mnangagwa to remain in office until 2030 if adopted by parliament. (Reuters)
- Portuguese home minister Maria Lúcia Amaral resigns after criticism over the government's response to Storm Kristin and other storms. (Reuters)
Science and technology
- Internet censorship in Russia, Censorship of Telegram
- The Russian Roskomnadzor restricts access to the instant messaging service Telegram, citing alleged failures to remove prohibited material and protect personal data, and triggers nationwide service disruptions reported by users. (CNN)
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