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  • Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attends a ceremonial welcome for Israel’s President Isaac Herzog at Government House in Canberra, Australia, on February 11, 2026.
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    Australian leader evacuated from residence following bomb threat linked to opponents of group banned in China
  • US offers diplomatic services in West Bank settlement for first time. Critics warn it’s ‘normalizing annexation’
  • Grandfather kidnapped from his bed and murdered in case of mistaken identity, police say
  • Freed Venezuelan political prisoner reunites with niece at Trump’s State of the Union address
  • Scale of Xi’s military purges could hinder China’s ability to fight, says think tank
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  • Four years on, Russia’s war in Ukraine has transformed conflict and shattered global security
  • US tourists stranded in Mexico amid ‘really scary’ cartel violence following drug lord’s killing
  • Canada plans to assist Cuba as Washington squeezes the island
  • Will the killing of ‘El Mencho’ set off turf wars and narco-terrorism across Mexico?
  • Zelensky pleads to Trump: ‘Stay on our side’
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    Pro-Trump lawmaker in Colombia faces questions after son’s detention by ICE
  • Afghan men search for victims after a Pakistani air strike hit a residential area in the Girdi Kas village, Nangarhar province on February 22, 2026.
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    Pakistan launches airstrikes against Afghan-based ‘militants’ it blames for cross-border attacks

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  • Pedestrians walk past a charred vehicle after it was set on fire, on a road in Cointzio, Michoacán state, Mexico, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026, after the death of the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho."
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  • Peter Mandelson was fired by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer as ambassador to the US last year.
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    Former UK ambassador to US Peter Mandelson released after arrest amid Epstein probe
  • Louvre museum director resigns in wake of ‘heist of the century’
  • France bans US ambassador Charles Kushner from meeting French ministers
  • Ukraine is becoming a nation of widows and orphans as it confronts a demographic ‘catastrophe’
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  • People walk near a mural featuring images of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on a street in Tehran, Iran, February 17, 2026.
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    Fresh protests erupt in Tehran as Witkoff says Trump curious why Iran has not yet ‘capitulated’
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  • UK condemns 10-year sentence for British couple in Iran
  • Israeli TV producer of award-winning show ‘Tehran’ found dead in Athens hotel room
  • Israeli move to designate large parts of West Bank as state land condemned as ‘de facto annexation’
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  • Legendary salsa musician Willie Colon poses for a portrait in Mexico City, March 5, 2009. Colón, considered by many to be the "architect of urban salsa," died Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. He was 75.
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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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  • Daily life continues in the city of Al-Hilaliya despite widespread destruction, as residents say the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), fighting the Sudanese army, kept the city under siege for nearly two months, looted homes, and even poisoned water wells in Al Hilaliya, Al Jazirah state of Sudan, on January 20, 2026.
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    UN experts say destruction by Sudan’s rebels in El Fasher in October bears ‘hallmarks of genocide’
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  • How Mexico hunted ‘El Mencho’ with help from his lover’s ‘trusted man’ and US intelligence
  • The death of ‘El Mencho’ exposed the reach of Mexico’s cartel crisis. Will US tourists stay away?
  • Who was ‘El Mencho,’ the feared cartel leader killed in a military operation?

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  • Protesters hold placards during a candlelight vigil to condemn South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's surprise declarations of the failed martial law and to call for his resignation in Seoul, South Korea, on December 5, 2024.
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    South Korea punishes former president who thought he could unravel democracy
  • Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol handed life sentence for leading insurrection
  • North Korea shows Kim Jong Un at the wheel of a mobile rocket launcher
  • The house always wins: How the establishment finally came out on top in Thailand

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  • Passengers leave Guadalajara International Airport in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco State, Mexico, on February 22, 2026.
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    What travelers need to know as situation in Mexico calms
  • Campers sleeping on unmarked graves: The dark history behind an island paradise
  • Skeleton of St. Francis of Assisi goes on public display for first time
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  • Luis Javier Rodriguez clears snow from a sidewalk, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, in Weekhawken, N.J. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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    Power outages, travel troubles and bitter cold plague Northeast in wake of historic bomb cyclone blizzard
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