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Russia hits Ukraine energy targets with hundreds of drones, missiles, ahead of talks
Kyiv residents shelter at the Dorohozhychi subway station amid a Russian drone-and-missile strike on February 3, 2026 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ihor Kuznietsov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)(LONDON) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged "maximum pressure" on Russia from the international community after Moscow fired hundreds of drones and missiles into Ukraine overnight into Tuesday morning, in a major attack that Zelenskyy said focused on the country's critical energy infrastructure.Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 71 missiles and 450 drones into the country overnight, of which 38 missiles and 412 drones were shot down or suppressed. Twenty-seven missiles and 31 drones impacted across 27 locations, the air force said.The strike was the largest reported by the Ukrainian air force of the ... Read More
Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt reopens for limited traffic in key step for ceasefire
[caption id="attachment_1476904" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Ambulances line up to enter the Egyptian gate of the Rafah crossing on the way to the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohamed Arafat)[/caption]CAIRO (AP) — Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt reopened on Monday for limited traffic, a key step as the Israeli-Hamas ceasefire moves ahead, according to Egyptian and Israeli security officials. An Egyptian official said 50 Palestinians would cross in each direction in the first day of the crossing’s operation. The official, involved in talks related the implementation of the ceasefire deal, spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the issue. State-run Egyptian media and an Israeli security official also confirmed the reopening, which ... Read More
Iran summons EU ambassadors to protest Revolutionary Guard being listed as terror group
[caption id="attachment_1476901" align="alignnone" width="1024"] FILE - Women, one flashing a victory hand gesture, cross a street under a huge banner showing hands firmly holding Iranian national flags as a sign of patriotism, in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)[/caption]DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran said Monday it had summoned all of the European Union ambassadors in the Islamic Republic to protest the bloc’s listing of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as a terror group. The move comes as Iran faces the threat of U.S. military action in response to the killing of peaceful demonstrators and over possible mass executions. The American military has moved the USS Abraham Lincoln and several guided-missile destroyers into the Mideast. It remains ... Read More
2 dead in shooting in northern Canada, no active threat: Officials
(NEW YORK) -- Two people are dead from a shooting in the Cree First Nation community of Mistissini in northern Quebec, Canada, officials said, adding that it is not considered an active shooter situation.Two men in their 30s who live in the Mistissini community were found fatally shot in a car overnight, according to Hugues Beaulieu, a spokesperson for Quebec's provincial police, the Sureté du Québec.Although no arrest has been made, there is no active threat to the general population, Beaulieu told ABC News, explaining that police are working under the theory that the murders were related to organized crime and drug trade.The community's chief, Michael Petawabano, said earlier that all schools and community buildings were closed and residents were ... Read More
North Korea test-launches 2 ballistic missiles toward sea, Japan and South Korea say
A North Korea Scud-B missile (R) is displayed at the Korea War Memorial Museum on July 4, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)(SEOUL and LONDON) -- North Korea test-launched two short-range ballistic missiles on Tuesday afternoon, South Korean and Japanese officials said.The missile launch took place just hours after Elbridge Colby, the U.S. under secretary of defense for policy, wrapped up his visit to South Korea early Tuesday morning and arrived in Japan.Seoul and Pyongyang have been on edge over North Korea's accusation that South Korea intruded its airspace with drones in January and last September.The launches amounted to a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions and posed "a serious issue concerning the safety of the Japanese people,” ... Read More
Iranians detail ‘bloodbath’ crackdown said to have killed 5,700 protesters, as internet blockade eases
A giant banner depicting a U.S. aircraft carrier and the American flag was displayed at Enqelab (Revolution) Square in Tehran, Iran amid rising tensions between the United States and Iran on January 25, 2026. (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anado(LONDON) -- As the internet blackout in Iran appears to be easing after weeks of protests across the country, the scale of the Islamic Republic regime’s bloodiest crackdown in decades is now being made public, according to activist groups.More than 5,700 protesters have been killed since Jan. 8, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency, an Iran-focused activist group based in the U.S.More than 17,000 other related death cases are still under review, the group said. That U.S.-based group relies on a network of ... Read More
Body of last remaining hostage retrieved from Gaza, Israel says
Vehicle, carrying the body of the last Israeli hostage remaining in Gaza Ran Gvili, arrives the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute prior to the funeral ceremony in Tel Aviv, Israel on January 26, 2026. (Photo by Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)The final deceased Israeli hostage in Gaza taken during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack has returned to Israel following a military operation to retrieve the body, Israeli officials said.Rani Gvili, who served in the Israeli Police Special Forces, died in combat during the Hamas attack on Israel. Hamas took his body into Gaza, according to the Israel Defense Forces.The IDF located his body in a cemetery in northern Gaza in the area of the so-called yellow line, which marks off Israeli-controlled parts of ... Read More
Europe must ‘play the power game’ with Trump over Greenland, former Danish FM says
Denmark's then-Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod speaks to the press in Brussels, Belgium, on July 18, 2022. (Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images_(LONDON )-- Denmark's new government was less than two months old when U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign to acquire Greenland broke into public view in the summer of 2019."We thought it was unprecedented," recalled former Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod, who then was in post and suddenly tasked with a transcontinental fire drill. Trump's desire for what he at the time called "essentially a large real estate deal" threw a wrench in the works of a planned state visit by the president to Denmark. The president ultimately cancelled the trip, saying Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen had shown "no interest in ... Read More
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