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Russian drone strike kills 12 miners in Dnipropetrovsk region

A Russian drone strike killed 12 miners who had just finished their shift at a coal mine in east-central Ukraine on Sunday afternoon, officials said. The strike hit a bus carrying workers from a mine run by the energy company DTEK in the Dnipropetrovsk region, the company said. DTEK initially

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Mexico announces measures to tackle industrial pollution after Guardian investigations

The Mexican government said last week it will pursue a sweeping set of actions to combat industrial pollution following investigations by the Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab, including $4.8m in fines against Zinc Nacional and the rollout of a new industrial air‑monitoring system the government called “the first

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Sarah Ferguson’s 2010 email to Jeffrey Epstein reveals vulgar comment about Eugenie

Sarah Ferguson made a vulgar comment about her daughter Princess Eugenie in a 2010 email to Jeffrey Epstein that was released by the U.S. Department of Justice on Jan. 30 as part of a new batch of files tied to Epstein. In an exchange reviewed by PEOPLE from March

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Isabella Comas, 21, missing after car with 'blood stains' found; boyfriend arrested

Authorities in Arizona are searching for 21-year-old Isabella Comas, who was last seen leaving a friend’s house in Avondale around 3:00 p.m. local time on Sunday, Jan. 11, in a red Hyundai Sonata. The car was found abandoned days later in Phoenix and Comas remains missing, the

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Trump embraces ‘Christian genocide’ claim and ordered Tomahawk strikes in Nigeria

President Trump took up claims of a "Christian genocide" in Nigeria after meetings with U.S. Christian activists and Republican lawmakers and, on Christmas Day, ordered Tomahawk missile strikes on targets in northwest Nigeria. The strikes capped a yearslong campaign by religious activists, conservative lawmakers and public figures

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China's military faces leadership gap after probe of top general Zhang Youxia

This past weekend China's defense ministry announced investigations into Gen. Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Liu Zhenli, the commission's joint staff chief, deepening a sweeping anti-corruption purge that has removed dozens of senior officers and raised questions about combat readiness, Business

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Ukraine peace talks postponed after U.S. and Russian envoys meet in Florida

Feb. 1, 2026 — A second round of trilateral talks meant to help end the war in Ukraine was postponed for several days after a surprise meeting this weekend between Russian and U.S. negotiators in Florida. The talks, among representatives from Russia, Ukraine and the United States, had been expected

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Laura Fernández leads ahead of Costa Rica vote as concerns grow over democratic backsliding

Laura Fernández, President Rodrigo Chaves’s handpicked successor, led the race ahead of Costa Rica’s presidential vote on Sunday, according to reporting dated Feb. 1, 2026. The contest is being framed as a choice over whether Mr. Chaves’s governing style will be reinforced or rejected. Recent polls show

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Rafah crossing set to reopen after nearly a year, Israeli officials say

The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt prepared to open on Sunday after nearly a year of closures, Israeli officials said. The move would allow Palestinians to leave for medical care or return to homes and families in the territory. Israeli officials said the crossing, near the southern city

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Indonesia lifts conditional ban on Grok after assurances from X Corp

Indonesia lifted a ban on Grok, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, weeks after the government had blocked the tool because it was being used to generate sexualized images of real people. The Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs said it had received a letter

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Years After Coup, Myanmar’s National Unity Government Faces Marginalization

Five years after the military overthrew the elected government on Feb. 1, 2021, the National Unity Government of Myanmar — a pro-democracy shadow government formed by politicians and civic leaders in exile — has failed to halt the junta’s consolidation of power and, critics say, is becoming increasingly irrelevant as the

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‘I’m Free’: Former Chinese Muslim official who helped build surveillance speaks out

Ma Ruilin, a former midlevel Chinese Communist Party official who managed Muslim affairs in Gansu Province, has moved to New York and is publicly recounting his role in building systems used to track and control Muslims in China, according to interviews with The New York Times published Feb. 1, 2026.

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Tokyo court orders North Korea to pay compensation to former settlers

A Tokyo high court this week ordered North Korea to pay at least 20m yen (£94,000) to each of four former settlers who say they were lured from Japan under a programme promising a "paradise on Earth". The four plaintiffs had escaped to Japan and had campaigned

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Why the Donetsk region matters as Abu Dhabi peace talks resume

As Russian and Ukrainian negotiators reconvene in Abu Dhabi on Sunday for peace talks organized by the Trump administration, the fate of the Donetsk region remains a core unresolved issue. Russian officials have suggested Moscow will not stop fighting until Ukraine hands over the 2,082 square miles of Donetsk

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T. Kumar, rights activist shaped by prison, dies at 76

Thambithurai Muthukumarasamy, a human-rights activist known as T. Kumar, died on Jan. 19 at 76, Amnesty International confirmed. His sister, Krishnal Muthukumarasamy, said the cause was complications of sarcoidosis. He lived in the Washington, D.C., area, but the report says it was unclear where he died. Born on Feb.

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Deadly blast in Bandar Abbas and other explosions fuel jitters in Iran

A deadly explosion that officials said had most likely been caused by a gas leak rocked an eight-story apartment building in the port city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday, killing at least one person and injuring at least 14, according to Fars, a news agency affiliated with Iran’s Islamic

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Danish veterans march in Copenhagen to protest President Trump’s remarks

On Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026, Danish military veterans and their families marched through Copenhagen in protest of recent comments by President Trump that they said belittled the support NATO allies gave the United States in recent wars. At the front of the march was Lance Cpl. Soren Teigen, a Danish

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Winter storms cause at least 49 deaths and widespread outages in eastern North America

Cold weather across a vast swathe of the eastern US has been the likely cause of at least 49 deaths in the past week, with winter warnings and power losses affecting large parts of eastern North America. At one point about 213 million people were under some sort of winter

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Israel launches airstrikes in Gaza as Rafah border set to reopen

The Israeli military launched a series of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Saturday, an attack that a Gaza health official said killed at least 26 people and that the military said targeted commanders from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad; the strikes came as the cease-fire was set to move

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Panama supreme court cancels Hong Kong company’s canal concession

Panama’s supreme court on Thursday ruled the concession held by Panama Ports Company (PPC), a subsidiary of Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison, was unconstitutional, the country’s president, José Raúl Mulino, said on Friday. Mulino said maritime officials would continue working with PPC until the court’s ruling was

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Western leaders draw closer to China, analysts say Beijing sets the terms

Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited Shanghai this week, the first British leader to go to China since 2018, part of a procession of European and Canadian leaders now seeking closer ties with Beijing, The New York Times reports. Analysts say Beijing deliberately intensified pressure after President Trump’s “Liberation Day”

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Rafah crossing set to reopen as thousands in Gaza seek medical evacuation

The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt is expected to reopen on Sunday, COGAT said, raising hopes among thousands of Palestinians who have been waiting to be evacuated for medical treatment outside the enclave. Among those waiting is Mohammed al-Ser, 27, who suffered a severe head injury in June

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Russia’s oil revenue is plummeting, forcing higher taxes and rising debt

As of Jan. 31, 2026, Russia’s oil revenue has plunged, forcing the Kremlin to raise taxes and increase state debt even as trilateral peace talks with Ukraine and the United States are set to continue in Abu Dhabi. The Finance Ministry said Russia’s oil and gas revenue fell

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Sheinbaum warns Trump oil tariffs on Cuba could spark humanitarian crisis

Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, warned on Friday that Donald Trump’s executive order laying the groundwork for tariffs on countries sending oil to Cuba could trigger a humanitarian crisis on the island, which already faces chronic fuel shortages and regular blackouts. A White House statement cited the Cuban government’

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Europe sketches plan to reduce dependence after Trump’s Greenland threats

After President Trump threatened Europe last week, most recently over Greenland, leaders from across the continent met at an emergency dinner in Brussels and sketched a playbook to reduce military and economic dependence on the United States, according to three officials briefed on the meeting. At the dinner, positions diverged: