Twenty-eight people are killed in a drone strike on a crowded market outside Sodari, North Kordofan, Sudan.
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Al Arabiya English 
February 16
Armed conflicts and attacks
Two people are killed, including a child, and 12 others are injured in a motorcycle bombing near a police station in Bannu District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
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Sky News
Disasters and accidents
At least 42 people are injured, including 10 critically, in a fire at an industrial unit in Faridabad, Haryana, India.
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Hindustan Times
Five people are injured when a passenger train derails near Goppenstein, Ferden, Valais, Switzerland.
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BBC News
February 15
International relations
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.
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AFP via CNA
The Philippines signs military defense cooperation pacts with Estonia and Italy at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany. The agreements will particularly expand cooperation in cybersecurity and capacity building for their respective armed forces.
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Manila Standard
Sports
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The New York Times
Arts and culture
Cuba's Habanos S.A. suspends the annual Habanos Cigar Festival in Havana amid a sharp decline in tourists and a severe shortage of fuel due to the ongoing U.S. blockade.
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Havana Times
Armed conflicts and attacks
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BBC News
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.
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Al Arabiya English
Widespread power outages are reported by authorities in several oblasts in Russia, including Belgorod and Bryansk, following a large-scale Ukrainian missile and drone attack on Russian power stations. Bryansk Oblast governor Alexander Bogomaz confirms the regional capital Bryansk has lost most of its electricity and heat supply.
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RBC-Ukraine
Jubaland forces and American troops conducted a four-day operation that killed more than 60 al-Shabaab insurgents in Lower Juba, Jubaland, Somalia.
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Horseed Media
Three people are killed and several others are injured in a drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces on a hospital in Sennar State, Sudan.
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TRT World
Disasters and accidents
Eleven people are killed and eight are injured after a bus collided with a trailer in Khairpur district, Pakistan.
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Dawn
Eight people are killed and two others are injured in an explosion and fire at a fireworks store in Donghai County, Jiangsu, China.
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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.
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The Hindu
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The Independent
One person is killed and 13 others are injured in a fire at a shopping mall in Marib, Marib Governorate, Yemen.
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Reuters
Law and crime
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.
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The Straits Times
Politics and elections
The Cabinet of Israel approves new measures to expand land registration in the occupied West Bank and facilitate land purchases by Israeli settlers.
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Reuters
February 14
Business and economy
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.
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Reuters
Law and crime
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.
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NBC News
Sports
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.
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AP
International 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.
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Bloomberg
Armed conflicts and attacks
Gunmen launch simultaneous attacks on three communities in Niger State, Nigeria, killing at least 46 people and kidnapping a number of others.
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The Daily Star
Gunmen attack a bar in the city of Puebla, killing three people and wounding five others. Authorities confirm the arrest of four criminals related to the attack.
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Aristegui Noticias
February 13
Business and economy
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.
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BBC News
Politics and elections
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.
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Reuters
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.
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The Guardian
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.
Source:
El Mundo
Disasters and accidents
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The Hindu
Six people are trampled to death by wild elephants near Hazaribagh district, Jharkand, India.
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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.
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GMA News
Four people are killed after an Epic E1000 aircraft crashes at Steamboat Springs Airport in Colorado, United States.
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Aviation Safety Network
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BBC News
Law and crime
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.
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WRAL-TV
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.
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Reuters
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.
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CNN
Armed conflicts and attacks
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.
Operation Southern SpearUnited States strikes on alleged drug traffickers during Operation Southern Spear
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Reuters
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.
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Reuters