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February 18th, 2026

Hungary Cuts Energy Shipments to Ukraine, Slovakia Threatens to Follow Germany Plans To Give Spies Vast New Powers in Rollback of Postwar Restraints
Rep. Ro Khanna To Force a Vote on Iran War Powers Resolution Next Week Sailor Found Dead in Barracks at Naval Station Great Lakes
Israel Secretly Sought Legal Advice About Britons Serving in the IDF Russia Hosts Cuban Foreign Minister and Urges US Not To Blockade Cuba
Brooklyn Navy Yard Evicts Drone Maker Amid Pressure Campaign Organizers Fight Back as Missouri Moves To Crack Down on Israel-Related Speech in Schools
Trump's 'Board of Peace' for Gaza To Hold First Meeting in Washington Gaza Mother's Grim Ordeal: A Search for Missing Son Among Mutilated Bodies
'Rats Run Over Our Faces': Gaza's Displaced Forced To Live on Infested Land Trump Says UK's Starmer Making 'A Big Mistake' With Chagos Islands Deal
No Breakthrough After Two Days of Russia-Ukraine Talks 'This Is Not a Dress Rehearsal': US Engaged in Massive Military Buildup as Threat To Bomb Iran Grows
White House Claims There Are 'Many Reasons' To Strike Iran, Doesn't Elaborate Further Report: US Will Withdraw All of Its Forces in Syria Over the Next Two Months
Israel Revoking Entry Authorization of Foreign Activists US, UN Urge Libyan Leaders To Make 'Pragmatic Compromises' and Unite Amid Escalating Crises
Canada Eases Sanctions on Syria Civilians and Aid Operations Bear Brunt of Drone Strikes in Sudan's Kordofan
Lanterns Over Rubble: Gaza Marks First Ramadan After Israeli War With Fragile Hope AIPAC Accused of Covert Campaigning as Democratic Support Falters
Russia Does Not Accept Sanctions Against Cuba: Putin Zelensky Says Ukraine Expects Another Round of Negotiations Before End of February
Denmark's King Frederik X Arrives in Greenland in Show of Support Israel To Allow 10,000 Palestinian Worshipers Access to Al-Aqsa During Ramadan
South Sudan: Hospitals Overwhelmed as Fighting Rages On Canada Launches Huge Defense Plan To Curb Reliance on US
Unidentified Drone Downed Over Lebanon Airbase, US Forces Block Authorities From Crash Site Australian Citizen in Syria With Alleged ISIS Ties Banned From Returning Home
Israeli Forces Kill at Least Two Palestinians in Gaza Tucker Carlson Detained in Israel After Mike Huckabee Interview
Israel Expanding Control in Occupied West Bank Tests US Red Lines Swiss Government Approves Temporary Troop Increase for EU Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina
No Covert Nuclear Tests by Moscow or Beijing, Kremlin Insists How Israel's Decades-Long Settlement Project Erases Palestinian State
As Israel Takes Steps To Claim Land in West Bank, US Stands By Videos Abound, but Only One Israeli Soldier Charged With Gaza Looting
Illegal Israeli Settlers Wound Three Palestinians Near Occupied East Jerusalem Israel Orders Land Seizure in Northern Occupied West Bank, Targeting Key Archaeological Site
Israel Deploys Thousands of Forces Across Occupied West Bank as Ramadan Begins US Bombs Somalia for 35th Time This Year
Taiwan's Army Plans Major Live-Fire Exercise To Test New Weapons Ukraine Revives Military Balloons for Modern Warfare Needs
Chagos Islanders Threatened With Jail if They Don't Give Up Handover Protest Colombia To Resume Peace Talks With ECG After Temporary Suspension
US Immigration Judge Rejects Trump Bid To Deport Columbia Student Mahdawi Over 80 UN Member States Condemn Israel's De Facto Annexation of West Bank
UN Panel Says Epstein Abuses May Constitute 'Crimes Against Humanity' Why Is the US Targeting Cuba's Global Medical Missions?
Report: Trump Close to a Major Attack on Iran That Will Be Bigger Than 12-Day War Pakistan's Punjab Police Kill 900 People in Eight Months: What's Going On?
Fears of 'Slow, Certain Death' Stalk Tigray Amid Rumblings of Renewed War More Than 80 Filmmakers Denounce 'Censorship' Over Gaza at Berlinale
Smotrich Says Not Israel's Fault Palestinians 'Murder One Another' DoJ Files Detail Epstein's Connections to Norway's Elite Through Rød-Larsen
Hezbollah Rejects Lebanese Call To Fully Disarm Them in Four Months Epstein Briefed by Rød-Larsen on 'Covert' Plan To Deploy Pakistani Special Forces to Saudi-Yemen Border
Aggravated Burglary Charges Dropped Against 18 Palestine Action Defendants UN Panel Says European Calls for Resignation of Albanese 'Rooted in Disinformation'
Calls Grow Among Democrats for Anti-Muslim Lawmaker Randy Fine To Resign Mexico Declines Trump's Gaza Peace Board and Reaffirms Support for Palestine
Iran Proposed 'Temporary Suspension' of Nuclear Enrichment in Geneva Talks: Report US Diplomat Accuses Belgian Officials of Anti-Semitism on X
Norway's Role in the Oslo Accords Questioned After Key Figures Appear in Epstein Files Israel Extends Length of Settler Raids at Al-Aqsa Mosque as Ramadan Begins
Former Army Chief Seen as Zelensky's Top Rival Reveals to AP a Rift Between Them

February 17th, 2026

Judge Clears Navy Contractor's $1.5 Million Settlement With Hunters Point Residents US To Send More Missile Launchers to the Philippines Despite China's Alarm
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