An executive order threatening a 25% tariff on states doing business with Iran is signed by US President Donald Trump.
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The Hindu 
February 7
International relations
Armed conflicts and attacks
At least 24 people are killed, including eight children, in a drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces on a vehicle carrying displaced families near Er Rahad, North Kordofan, Sudan.
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CTV News
Ukraine schedules emergency power outages across the country citing Russian attacks on thermal power stations.
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Kyiv Independent
Politics and elections
The mandate for the Transitional Presidential Council in Haiti expires. The powers of the presidency are transferred to Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, who had recently survived a removal attempt by the council two weeks ago.
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NYT
Disasters and accidents
Six people are killed and three are injured after a truck rammed into a bus on the Yamuna Expressway, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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The Hindu
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Xinhua News Agency
February 6
Armed conflicts and attacks
The deputy head of Russian military intelligence, lieutenant general Vladimir Alekseyev, is shot and critically injured in Moscow, Russia.
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BBC News
Thirty-two people are killed and 170 others are wounded in a suicide bombing at a Shia mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan. The Islamic State – Pakistan Province claims responsibility.
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Al Jazeera
The Iraqi Air Force carries out airstrikes on ISIS hideouts near Hatra in northern Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, using F-16 fighter jets, killing four militants and destroying logistical facilities.
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Shafaqna
An ISIS suicide bomber detonates explosives at a hideout in Al-Qa'im District, Iraq, during an attempted arrest, killing himself and injuring two security officers.
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AP
One person is killed and three others are injured in drone strikes by the Rapid Support Forces on a humanitarian convoy of the World Food Programme in Allah Karim near El-Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan.
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AA
International relations
Canada and France open consulates in Nuuk, Greenland, to reinforce support for the Danish Realm against United States president Donald Trump's threats to unilaterally annex the territory.
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DW
The United States Department of State issues sanctions on 14 oil tankers that are used to transport oil to Iran.
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The New Arab
Politics and elections
Former vice president of the Bank of China Lin Jingzhen is expelled from the Chinese Communist Party following an investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection that found "serious violations of discipline and laws".
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Reuters
Sports
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NBC News
Law and crime
One of the "key participants" behind the 2012 attack on two United States government facilities in Benghazi, Libya, that killed ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, is arrested, charged with murder, arson and terrorism and brought to the United States.
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Al Jazeera
North Macedonian police seize 28 tonnes of cannabis, the largest such haul in the country, from former industrial sites in Skopje and Strumica, link the operation to a recent five-tonne seizure in Serbia, and state that the material originated from licensed medicinal-growing facilities but was diverted for unauthorized use.
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Reuters
Amnesty International reports that North Koreans are being executed for watching the South Korean series and listening to K-pop.
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Sky News
A further 22 sets of infant remains are recovered from the former site of the Tuam Mother and Baby home in County Galway, Ireland, bringing the total to 33 sets of remains.
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RTÉ
English serial killer Steven Wright, who killed five women in 2006, receives another life sentence after he admitted to murdering a 17-year-old girl in 1999.
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Reuters via CTV News
At least six people, including a child, are injured in a grenade attack at a beauty salon in Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
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Le Parisien
China overturns the death sentence of Canadian citizen Robert Lloyd Schellenberg after he was detained on drug trafficking charges in 2014.
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AFP via CTV News
The European Commission, in a preliminary statement regarding their ongoing investigation into TikTok, finds evidence of "addictive design" in its app, which could affect children and vulnerable adults, in possible violation of the European Union's Digital Services Act.
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RTÉ
A funeral home owner is sentenced to 40 years in prison for abusing 189 corpses and giving their families fake ashes in Penrose, Colorado, United States.
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The Guardian
Disasters and accidents
The wreckage of an Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante operating a cargo flight for Agape Flights that went missing yesterday is found in Jérémie, Grand'Anse, Haiti. Both pilots were killed.
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Miami Herald
February 5
International relations
Angola, Namibia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo agree to take back foreign offenders and illegal migrants from the United Kingdom after Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood threatened them with visa penalties. Around 3,000 people are expected to be returned following the deal.
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BBC News
The UN Security Council Sanctions Committee on North Korea approves exemptions for 17 humanitarian projects in North Korea, allowing international organizations and non-governmental groups to deliver humanitarian aid despite existing restrictions linked to the country's nuclear program.
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Reuters
New START, the last treaty on limiting strategic nuclear weapons between Russia and the United States, expires.
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swissinfo
Russia and the United States agree to re-establish high-level military communication for the first time since it was suspended in 2021 under the Biden administration.
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AP
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Parliament of Moldova
Science and technology
SpaceX deactivates Starlink terminals in Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, preventing their use by Russian forces following pressure from Ukraine.
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CNN
Disasters and accidents
At least eight people are killed and more than 28,000 are displaced after Tropical Storm Penha makes landfall in the southern Philippines.
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AP
Ten people are killed and several others injured after a bus falls down a 100-meter ravine in Eliodoro Camacho Province, Bolivia.
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Reuters
At least three people are killed and seven others are injured when a car crashes into a 99 Ranch Market in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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KGO-TV
One person is killed and three others are injured when a double-decker bus strikes pedestrians in Dublin, Ireland.
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Sky News
Sports
The match between Finland and Canada in the women's ice hockey tournament at the Winter Olympics is postponed to February 12 after a norovirus outbreak affected 13 members of the Finnish team.
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NBC
Law and crime
The remaining 89 people kidnapped from three churches in Kaduna State, Nigeria, by criminal gangs on January 18, are released.
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Africanews via MSN
An Azerbaijani military court sentences 13 former Nagorno-Karabakh officials, including ex-leader Arayik Harutyunyan, to penalties ranging from 15 years to life imprisonment after convicting them of offences such as war crimes, crimes against humanity, terrorism, genocide, and attempting to seize power by force.
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Reuters
The mayor of Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico, is arrested on charges of alleged extortion and organized crime.
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Reuters
Armed conflicts and attacks
At least 22 people are killed and eight others are injured in a bombing by the Rapid Support Forces at a military hospital in South Kordofan, Sudan.
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AA
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy seizes two foreign oil tankers allegedly smuggling fuel in the Persian Gulf. Fifteen crew members onboard both tankers are taken into custody.
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The Canadian Press
The United States Navy strikes a boat suspected of transporting illegal narcotics in the Eastern Pacific, killing two people.
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Reuters
February 4
Armed conflicts and attacks
The Pakistan Armed Forces use drones and helicopters in an attempt to regain control of Nushki from Balochistan Liberation Army insurgents in Balochistan, Pakistan, after attacks across the province killed over 200 people.
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Reuters via MSN
At least 23 Palestinians, including seven women, five children, and a paramedic are killed by Israeli military, airstrikes, and drone strikes in the Gaza Strip after a Palestinian militant attack injures an Israeli soldier.
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Al Jazeera
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Northern Gaza Brigade commander Ali al-Razayneh is killed in an airstrike on the Gaza Strip.
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The Times of Israel
Russian forces strike a market in Druzhkivka, Donetsk Oblast, with cluster munitions, killing at least seven civilians and injuring 15 others.
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Kyiv Post
Law and crime
The Woolwich Crown Court finds three out of six members of Palestine Action not guilty of aggravated robbery relating to a raid on a building owned by Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems in Bristol, England, United Kingdom, while charges on criminal damage and violent disorder received partial or no verdicts. Five are released on bail.
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BBC News
A cargo ship captain is sentenced to six years in prison for gross negligence after his ship collided with an oil tanker in the North Sea off the coast of East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK, in 2025, killing one person.
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BBC News
Ryan Wesley Routh, the man who attempted to assassinate United States president Donald Trump while he was golfing at his club in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 2024, is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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The New York Times
A Hungarian court sentences German activist Maja T. to eight years in prison for participating in assaults on attendees of a far-right rally in Budapest in 2023, following her extradition from Germany despite later objections by Germany's constitutional court.
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AP via ABC News
Politics and elections
Peter Mandelson steps down from the UK House of Lords amid allegations he passed market-sensitive information to Jeffrey Epstein.
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RTÉ
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison's longtime chairman Brad S. Karp resigns after emails between him and Jeffrey Epstein are published.
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The New York Times
Business and economy
American newspaper announces that it will lay off about 300 journalists, roughly one-third of its employees, particularly those who cover sports, local news, and world news sections as part of a major restructuring effort.
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BBC News
Disasters and accidents
The death toll from severe weather in Japan, including heavy snowfall, rises to 35 with at least 400 others injured, according to the Japanese government.
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Sky News
One person is killed, another is injured, a girl is reported missing and thousands are evacuated during floods caused by Storm Leonardo in Portugal and Spain.
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CTV News
Nine city government employees are killed when a dump truck, also carrying crude oil, falls into a river in Bayawan, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
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ABS-CBN News
International relations
Eswatini's high court upholds an agreement with the United States that accepts third-country deportees in exchange for $5.1 million and at least 15 transfers initiated during the presidency of Donald Trump, rejecting claims that the deal requires parliamentary approval or greater disclosure.
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Reuters
Venezuelan businessmen Raúl Gorrín and Alex Saab, both allied with president Nicolás Maduro, are arrested in Caracas during a joint operation with U.S. law enforcement agencies on bribery and money laundering charges, with Saab expected to be extradited to the U.S.
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Reuters