20-02-2026 BUENOS AIRES: Diego Nacasio, 43, works full time as a salesman at a large hardware store in Florencio Varela, a city in the greater Buenos Aires area. He says he doesn’t need a calendar to know what day of the month it is. By the time his salary and …

20-02-2026 TEHRAN: The second round of indirect nuclear talks between the US and Iran have ended in Geneva, Switzerland. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran and Washington have reached an understanding on main principles during the Geneva talks. Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei says US will not be able …

19-02-2026 BRUSSELS/ LONDON: More than 457,000 European citizens have signed a petition calling for the full suspension of the European Union’s partnership agreement with Israel within the initiative’s first month. Launched on January 13 as a formally registered European citizens’ initiative, the petition must reach 1 million signatures from at …

19-02-2026 CARACAS: Pressure is growing on the Venezuelan interim government to free the remaining political prisoners being held in the country. A pressure group campaigning on detainees’ behalf, Foro Penal, said on Sunday that it had been able to verify that 444 political prisoners had been released since US forces …

19-02-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: A team of Indian officials will visit the US next week to finalize the legal text for an interim trade agreement, which is likely to be signed in March, Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal said on Monday (February 16, 2026). The visit is likely to start …

19-02-2026 GAZA STRIP: The smell hits you before you even see the tents. In the al-Taawun camp, wedged between Yarmouk Stadium and al-Sahaba Street in central Gaza City, the line between human habitation and human waste has been erased. Forced to flee their homes by Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, …

19-02-2026 KHARTOUM: Drone-fired missiles have hit a market in central Sudan’s Kordofan region, killing at least 28 people and wounding dozens of others, a rights group says. Emergency Lawyers, a group tracking violence against civilians, said in a statement on Monday that drones bombed the al-Safiya market in the town …

19-02-2026 WASHINGTON/ ABUJA: The United States has sent 100 military personnel to northern Nigeria to train and advise local forces, as deadly threats rise from armed groups such as Boko Haram and ISIL (ISIS)-linked factions. Samaila Uba, Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters spokesman, confirmed the US troops’ arrival in the northeastern area …

19-02-2026 TEHRAN: Iran’s military exercise in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday was an attempt by Tehran to push back against the US, a person familiar with the matter told The Jerusalem Post. The exercise was reported by Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary …

18-02-2026 DAMASCUS: Kurdish authorities in Syria have released 34 Australian relatives of ISIL (ISIS) fighters who had been held in a camp in northern Syria, saying they would be flown to Australia from Damascus. A director of ⁠the Roj camp said on Monday that Australian citizens had been handed over …