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Portugal elects Socialist Party’s Seguro as president in landslide
08 February 2026Antonio Jose Seguro of the centre-left Socialist Party has secured a landslide victory and a five-year term as Portugal�...
Israel security cabinet approves rules to increase control over West Bank
08 February 2026Israel’s security cabinet has approved new rules aimed at strengthening Israeli control over the occupied West Bank, a...
Who is Leqaa Kordia, the Columbia protester still in ICE detention?
08 February 2026Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old Palestinian woman detained in the United States by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...
Venezuela opposition politician Juan Pablo Guanipa released
08 February 2026Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Pablo Guanipa has been freed from jail, his family said in a statement. Guanipa’...
Iran sentences Nobel laureate Mohammadi to seven more years in prison
08 February 2026News|Civil Rights Iranian human rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been sentenced ...
Building collapse in northern Lebanon kills at least six people
08 February 2026At least six people have been killed and seven others were wounded when two adjoining buildings collapsed in the norther...
Ethiopia demands Eritrea ‘immediately withdraw’ troops from its territory
08 February 2026News|Conflict Ethiopia’s foreign minister has accused neighbouring Eritrea of military aggression and of supporting...
Italy’s Meloni condemns anti-Olympics protesters in Milan
08 February 2026Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has condemned anti-Olympics protesters as “enemies of Italy and Italians” afte...
UK PM’s top aide quits over Mandelson’s links to Epstein
08 February 2026British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff has quit over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to...
Iran calls for respect, says its ready for nuclear-focused talks
08 February 2026Tehran, Iran – Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has called on the United States to respect his country as the two ...