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  • (From left) Germany’s chief of defense, Gen. Carsten Breuer, and the UK’s chief of defense staff, Air Marshal Sir Richard Knighton
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    Two top European commanders warn ‘hard choices’ needed from public on arms spending to deter Russia
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  • Israeli move to designate large parts of West Bank as state land condemned as ‘de facto annexation’
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  • Russian opposition figure Navalny killed by toxin found in poison dart frogs, Europeans say
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  • A girl views products at the Unitree's first nationwide physical experience store in Beijing, China, on December 31, 2025..
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    Swiss to vote in referendum on right-wing party’s proposal to limit population to 10 million
  • Gisèle Pelicot leaves a courthouse in Avignon, France, on December 16, 2024, after hearing the defense's final plea at the trial of her former partner Dominique Pelicot, who was convicted of drugging her for nearly 10 years and inviting strangers to rape her at their home in Mazan, a small town in the south of France.
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  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during the 62nd Munich Security Conference (MSC) on February 14, 2026 in Munich, southern Germany. Heads of state and government as well as foreign and defence ministers from all over the world are expected to attend the security policy talks from February 13 to 15, 2026. (Photo by THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP via Getty Images)
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  • US Secretary of State Marco Rubio walks to a meeting of G7 foreign ministers on the sidelines of the 62nd Munich Security Conference (MSC) on February 14, 2026 in Munich, southern Germany. Heads of state and government as well as foreign and defence ministers from all over the world are expected to attend the security policy talks from February 13 to 15, 2026. (Photo by Alex Brandon / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Rubio’s Valentine’s Day message to Europe: Change or get dumped
  • Rubio reassures Europe’s leaders of US backing — but only if they change course
  • Orbán says the EU – not Russia – is Hungary’s real threat ahead of April vote
  • Rubio and European leaders agree on one thing: The old world order ‘no longer exists’
  • Former Norway leader charged with corruption after probe into alleged Epstein ties, lawyers say
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  • Members of Israel's Arab minority protest, calling on the Israeli government to tackle a wave of crime and killings from within Arab communities through effective law and order, in Sakhnin, northern Israel, January 22, 2026. REUTERS/Ammar Awad REFILE - CORRECTING YEAR FROM "2025" TO "2026".
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    A killing a day: How a crime epidemic is spotlighting inequality in Israeli society
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  • Iranian authorities subjected Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi to ‘life-threatening mistreatment,’ Nobel Committee says
  • Israel tightens grip on West Bank ahead of Netanyahu’s visit to US
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  • ANTARCTICA - FEBRUARY 8: An aerial view of seals as Turkiye's 10th National Antarctic Scientific Expedition, organized under the auspices of the Turkish Presidency, led by the Ministry of Industry and Technology, and coordinated by TUBITAK MAM Polar Research Institute continues on February 8, 2026 in Horseshoe Island, Antarctica. The expedition marks the 10th year of Turkiyeâs scientific activities in Antarctica. Following an 11-day journey, a team of 17 researchers - 16 from Turkiye and one from Bulgaria - arrived at the Turkish Scientific Research Camp on Horseshoe Island to carry out studies in life, physical and earth sciences. (Photo by Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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  • FILE PHOTO: Cast member James Van Der Beek poses at the premiere of "Standing Still" at the Arclight Cinerama Dome in Hollywood April 10, 2006. The movie tells the story of a group of college friends who reunite four years after graduating.  It opens limitedly in the U.S. on April 21. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo
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  • Nigeria's Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Waidi Shaibu, arrives to inspect troops during a tour of Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole at Maimalari Cantonment in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, November 7, 2025. REUTERS/Ahmed Kingimi
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    US troops to Nigeria will avoid combat, focus on training, military says
  • This photographer spent 10 years chasing the perfect shot of a rare species. This is how he got it
  • Lovers or lawbreakers? Banknote bouquet craze could land Kenyan sweethearts in jail
  • Gunmen kill nearly 200 in Nigeria’s Kwara and Katsina attacks

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  • Rifles on display at That Hunting Store in Ottawa, Ontario in 2022. A federal buyback for assault-style weapons in Canada, where gun control is broadly popular, has been met with criticism from provincial officials, police and gun owners
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    Gun control is popular in Canada. So why is a major buyback program attracting criticism?
  • US energy secretary and Venezuela’s acting president tour oil facility in warming ties just weeks after Maduro ouster
  • Canada in shock after worst school shooting in decades leaves at least eight dead
  • Venezuelan opposition figure Guanipa placed under house arrest after armed men detained him again following prison release

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  • Tarique Rahman, center, chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), casts his ballot in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Thursday.
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    Bangladesh’s BNP wins big in first election since Gen Z uprising, son of former ruler set to become prime minister
  • Could this teenage girl be North Korea’s next leader?
  • Freeways as runways: Indonesia plans to turn its islands into cheaper ‘aircraft carriers’
  • Gen Z won the revolution. The old guard are dominating the election

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  • A 2026 guide to Lunar New Year as we gallop into the Year of the Horse
  • The European castle with a dark Nazi secret and buried gold mystery
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  • Three British guys walked into an American bar. The decision led them all to lasting love

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  • A party of skiers adjourn for drinks at the bar on top of peak KT-22, Squaw Valley, California, 1961. Second from right is American lawyer and businessman Alexander Cochrane Cushing (1913 - 2006), who developed the resort. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    Why skiing will forever be the most glamorous sport
  • Tatreez explained: Why Palestinian women are preserving this embroidery
  • ‘History is being erased’: Artist Nick Cave brings his ancient mammoths to the Smithsonian
  • Ireland is paying artists a basic income in a pioneering scheme
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  • The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado on December 17, 2025.
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    Trump admin is pulling supercomputers out of key weather and climate research center
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