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Business and economy

The Italian Competition Authority fines Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair €255 million (US$300 million) for allegedly abusing its dominant market position from April 2023 to April 2025 by restricting how travel agencies sell its flights.

Source: Reuters

Armed conflicts and attacks

The United States Southern Command announces it struck an alleged drug boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one person.

War on drugsOperation Southern Spear2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers

Source: ABC

The Pakistani Taliban detonates a bomb and shoots at a police van in Karak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, killing five officers.

Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Source: Reuters

Five masked Israeli settlers violently break into a Palestinian house in the southern West Bank, killing three sheep, injuring four others, and fire tear gas into the living quarters. Three children under the age of four are taken to hospital after the tear gas attack.

Israeli settler violence

Source: Los Angeles Times

In an agreement mediated by United Nations special envoy office and the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council and the Houthis release a joint 2,900 detainees held throughout the civil war.

Yemeni civil war (2014–present)

Source: AP

Law and crime

Romanian president Nicușor Dan announces an investigation into alleged systemic abuses within the judiciary after judges and prosecutors report intimidation and undue influence by the High Court of Cassation and Justice.

Corruption in Romania

Source: Reuters

A Croatian man is sentenced to 50 years in prison for fatally stabbing a 7-year-old student at Prečko Elementary School in Zagreb.

Zagreb school stabbing

Source: AP

Politics and elections

A court in Lisbon, Portugal, orders Chega presidential candidate André Ventura to remove campaign posters targeting the Romani people within 24 hours, ruling that the materials are discriminatory and may incite hatred, or face daily fines of €2,500 (US$2,940) per poster.

2026 Portuguese presidential election

Source: Reuters

Health and environment

The Niigata prefectural assembly approves the restart of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world's largest nuclear facility, nearly 15 years after Japan shut down its reactors following the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Nuclear power in Japan

Source: Reuters

Disasters and accidents

At least 16 people are killed and 18 others are injured, including five critically, when a passenger bus loses control on a toll road, strikes a concrete barrier, and overturns in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia.

Source: AP

A Mexican Navy Beechcraft Super King Air plane carrying eight people, including a pediatric patient, crashes into a bay while on approach to Scholes International Airport in Galveston, Texas, United States. At least five people are killed, including a two-year-old child, while two others are rescued and another is reported missing.

Source: AP

Ten people are injured, including three seriously and the driver, when an individual drove into a crowd waiting to watch a parade in Nunspeet, Gelderland, Netherlands.

Source: AP

International relations

India and New Zealand finalize a free-trade agreement aiming to reduce most tariffs on bilateral trades, while New Zealand also pledges to invest US$20 billion in India's economy over the next 15 years.

India–New Zealand relations

Source: DW

Business and economy

The Chinese commerce ministry imposes a provisional set of 42.7% tariffs on dairy products, including milk and cheese, imported from the European Union.

China–European Union relations

Source: AP

The price of gold reaches an all-time high of US$4,383.76 per ounce, surpassing its previous peak of $4,381.52.

Source: Barron's

Law and crime

The high court of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, rules that former prime minister Najib Razak must remain in prison, holding that a purported royal addendum allowing house arrest lacks legal force because it was not approved by the pardons board, as required under the constitution.

1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal

Source: Reuters

Politics and elections

The Israeli cabinet approves defense minister Israel Katz's proposal to close the Israeli Army Radio, one of the country's two state broadcasters, by March 1, 2026, citing dissatisfaction from soldiers.

Mass media in Israel

Source: Reuters

United States president Donald Trump reveals the development of the Trump Class USS , the first American battleship built since World War II.

Source: USNI

Armed conflicts and attacks

Three people are killed in an Israeli airstrike against a vehicle near Sidon, Lebanon.

Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)

Source: Al Jazeera

Two people are killed and eight others are injured during clashes between Syrian security forces and Syrian Democratic Forces fighters in Aleppo.

Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)Syrian conflict (2024–present)

Source: AP via WFMZ-TV

Ukrainian military forces launch airstrikes on several targets across Russia, hitting an oil terminal, an ammunition depot, and a drone launch site in Krasnodar.

Russo-Ukrainian warAttacks in Russia during the Russo-Ukrainian war

Source: AP

Lieutenant general Fanil Sarvarov is killed by a car bomb in Moscow, Russia. The Security Service of Ukraine is being investigated for its role in the attack, which they have not taken responsibility for, with connections also drawn to the assassination of Igor Kirillov last year.

Russo-Ukrainian war

Source: The Guardian

Turkish intelligence agents capture a senior member of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border.

Turkey–Islamic State conflictInsurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Source: AP

International relations

Pakistan agrees to sell military technology to the Libyan military for over US$4 billion, violating an arms embargo imposed by the United Nations on Libya.

Libya–Pakistan relations

Source: Reuters

Armed conflicts and attacks

The Israeli cabinet approves 19 new settlements in the West Bank

Israeli occupation of the West Bank

Source: AP

Politics and elections

In Extremadura, Spain, the ruling People's Party of Extremadura of regional president María Guardiola wins the elections for its first time since 2011, while PSOE Extremadura reports its worst result ever and the far-right Vox party more than doubles its share of the vote.

2025 Extremaduran regional election

Source: RTVE

Law and crime

Nigerian presidential spokesperson Ajuri Ngelale reports that all remaining 130 students and staff abducted in November from a Catholic school in Niger State have been released.

Kidnapping in NigeriaPapiri kidnapping

Source: The Guardian

Gunmen abduct 28 people after intercepting a vehicle traveling to a Maulud gathering in Bashar, Plateau State.

Kidnapping in Nigeria

Source: AFP via France 24

Nine people are killed and ten others are injured in a mass shooting when 12 gunmen open fire near a tavern in Bekkersdal, Gauteng, South Africa.

Source: AFP via CBS News

Law and crime

A Pakistani court sentences former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, to 17 years in prison after finding them guilty of corruption-related charges.

Arrest of Imran Khan

Source: AP

Iran executes a man convicted of spying for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad in Urmia.

Capital punishment in Iran

Source: Iran Human Rights

Science and technology

German engineer Michaela Benthaus becomes the first person in a wheelchair and the first with paraplegia to travel to space on a sub-orbital trip conducted by Blue Origin.

Blue Origin NS-37

Source: DW

Armed conflicts and attacks

The United States Coast Guard intercepts and seizes an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela after previously seizing another last week.

2025 United States naval deployment in the CaribbeanUnited States–Venezuela relationsOperation Southern Spear

Source: The Washington Post

The United States says it has carried out airstrikes on 70 targets at multiple locations against ISIS in Syria, in retaliation for the December 2025 Palmyra attack.

US intervention in the Syrian civil warOperation Hawkeye Strike

Source: BBC News

Disasters and accidents

Seven elephants are killed and another is injured when a passenger train strikes a herd in the Hojai district of Assam, India.

Source: Reuters