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Politics and elections

Residents of Mogadishu, Somalia, vote to elect 390 district council members who will select the city's mayor, marking Somalia's first direct election since 1969 and serving as a pilot for planned nationwide polls.

Elections in Somalia

Source: Reuters

Law and crime

The Ghanaian information ministry arrests 48 Nigerians allegedly participating in cybercrime operations on the outskirts of Accra.

Source: DW

Armed conflicts and attacks

An Israeli soldier is wounded after an improvised explosive device detonated east of the demarcation line in Gaza.

Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)Gaza war

Source: Reuters

Three former officials of the al-Assad regime are killed in clashes with Syrian security forces near Jableh, Latakia Governorate.

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

Source: AFP via Al Arabiya

At least six people are killed, including the perpetrator, and 35 others are injured in a suicide bombing at a mosque in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. No group has claimed responsibility.

Religious violence in Nigeria

Source: Reuters

An explosive device kills two police officers and one civilian in Moscow, Russia, near where Russian lieutenant general Fanil Sarvarov was killed in a separate bombing two days prior.

Source: BBC News

Politics and elections

The National Electoral Council declares National Party candidate Nasry Asfura as the winner of the 2025 presidential election almost one month after the election was held.

2025 Honduran general election

Source: BBC News

Disasters and accidents

Five people are killed when a rescue helicopter crashes on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

Source: Reuters

Many people are feared trapped in a fire at a plaza in Lagos, Nigeria. The number of casualties is unknown.

Source: The Punch

International relations

Montenegro reinstates visa-free entry for Turkish citizens but shortens the permitted stay from 90 days to 30 days after resuming cooperation with Turkey.

Montenegro–Turkey relationsVisa policy of Montenegro

Source: Reuters

The United States imposes visa bans on Center for Countering Digital Hate CEO Imran Ahmed, former European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton, Global Disinformation Index co-founder Clare Melford, and HateAid CEOs Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon for allegedly pressuring U.S. social media platforms to restrict speech.

United States–European Union relationsVisa and deportation controversies in the second Trump administration

Source: Reuters

Armed conflicts and attacks

Five masked Israeli settlers 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–Palestinian conflictIsraeli settler violence

Source: Los Angeles Times

The Ukrainian Armed Forces confirm their withdrawal from Siversk, Donetsk Oblast.

Russo-Ukrainian warNortheast Donetsk Oblast campaign

Source: Reuters

The United States Southern Command announces U.S. forces have struck an alleged drug trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one person.

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

Source: ABC News

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

In an agreement mediated by the 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

Disasters and accidents

A Dassault Falcon 50 jet carrying Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, the Libyan Army chief, four other passengers and three crew crashes approximately two kilometers south of Kesikkavak, Haymana, Ankara, Turkey. No survivors are reported.

Harmony Jets Flight 185

Source: AP

At least two people are killed and 20 others are injured in an explosion and fire at a nursing home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Source: Reuters

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

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

The Venezuelan National Assembly approves a law that creates prison terms of up to 20 years for promoting or financing activities defined as piracy, blockades, or related international crimes.

Piracy in Venezuela

Source: Reuters

A Croatian man is sentenced to 50 years in prison for fatally stabbing a 7-year-old student at a school in Zagreb in December 2024.

Zagreb school stabbing

Source: AP

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

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

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

Business and economy

The Chinese commerce ministry imposes a provisional set of 42.7% tariffs on dairy products 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

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

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

Armed conflicts and attacks

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)SDF–Syrian transitional government clashes (2025–present)December 2025 Aleppo clashes

Source: AP via WFMZ-TV

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

U.S. President Donald Trump says that the United States will keep the oil from the oil tankers it seized off the coast of Venezuela, along with the ships themselves.

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

Source: The Hill

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

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