State media in the United Arab Emirates said one person had been killed in Abu Dhabi, but gave no details from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/dKITjyq
The changes mean that Artemis 3, which was meant to send astronauts to the Moon's surface, will now have the different test goal of "rendezvous in low-earth orbit" from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/xkVASZe
The Israeli Prime Minister advised his citizens to comply with the directives of the Home Front Command from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/HLYp5g1
Pakistan launched airstrikes on Kabul and Kandahar, sharply escalating tensions with Afghanistan’s Taliban government. The Taliban confirmed the strikes but denied casualties, even as border clashes intensified. Pakistan’s Defence Minister called it “open war”, drawing strong regional reactions from Iran and China. from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/JKODode
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 24-hour visit to Jerusalem was a significant bilateral outreach to Israel, but a missed opportunity on Palestine, with complex consequences for India’s ties with West Asia. from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/qETJpfr
The co-chairs said the WEF’s Alois Zwinggi will serve as interim president and CEO, and that the forum’s Board of Trustees will oversee the leadership transition, including a plan to drive a process to identify a permanent successor. from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/cSQCikN
Noted writer Victor Hugo was born on February 26, 1802. Here is a quiz on the key French romantic writer, his life and works from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/ihQH13Z
Hungary and Slovakia remain heavily reliant on Russian oil, with reports arguing this dependence is a political choice rather than a necessity; as EU reduces Russian gas, oil imports, the stand-off shows the political and economic hurdles complicating the bloc’s roadmap to energy independence from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/XniNJe6
His remarks came after De Niro criticised the President in a podcast aired on Monday (February 23, 2026), saying: "Everybody has to stick together to get them out and get back on track." from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/o0v6eXU
Microsoft co-founder also admitted that he had two affairs with Russian women and that he made mistakes that had cast a cloud over the philanthropic group while insisting he didn’t participate in Epstein’s crimes, says report from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/m268qjz
Trump’s pronouncements on Iran, India-Pakistan, Tariffs and Immigrations most closely watched for India from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/GJX7n83
Mr. Macron was to co-chair a new meeting of Ukraine's allies on Tuesday (February 24, 2026) from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/IYeizPV
The U.S. and Iran have held two rounds of talks since tensions escalated in January, but no breakthrough has been achieved from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/nrIJUMX
On February 24, 1920, Adolf Hitler announced the Nazi Party’s 25-point programme in Munich. A quiz on Hitler’s various security groups from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/P1eLbKc
Tourists and residents described scenes of panic at airports and on the streets of western Mexico on Monday (February 23), after violence erupted across Jalisco state following the death of cartel leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera. from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/UWHvSxK
Awami League offices have now been reopened in at least 15 districts. In most cases, leaders and activists arrived early in the morning, raised the flag, chanted slogans, and left within a short time from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/K2x1hdo
The 80-year-old was not in The Hague courtroom, having waived his right to appear as prosecutors began presenting evidence to support their charges of his alleged involvement in dozens of killings as part of his so-called war on drugs from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/Epqsj8F
The crew member was retrieved by a Danish Seahawk helicopter that had been deployed on an inspection ship from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/0Qc7GPn
In January 2026, India’s Chief of Defence Staff released a ‘Military Quantum Mission Policy Framework’ to guide how the armed forces plan to integrate quantum technologies from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/SZdjMJH
Russian oil shipments to Hungary and Slovakia have been interrupted since January 27, after Ukrainian officials said a Russian drone attack damaged the Druzhba pipeline, which carries Russian crude across Ukrainian territory and into Central Europe from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/lrUI8iw
The clashes between the two communities were triggered by a dispute on the evening of February 19, followed by escalation of tension through February 20 and February 21 morning with at least eight persons injured from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/o514uLm
Friday's initiative of the E5 nations — France, Poland, Germany, the United Kingdom and Italy — comes as one of many European efforts to bolster defence along their borders, like a “drone wall” with Russia and Ukraine to better detect, track and intercept drones violating Europe's airspace from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/Xj3bCRI
Bangladesh had halted issuing of visas in December 2025 when Indian missions faced protest and several incidents of stone pelting targeting Indian missions and visa centres were reported from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/XVKvpSN
A final trade deal with India will be signed “sooner than later” as a “few tweaking points” are required, he added from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/ZtoycjY
Northern Nigeria is in the grip of a complex security crisis featuring both Islamic militants and armed criminal gangs kidnapping people for ransom from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/hyG3jwQ
A grave in Lusaka tells a chilling story. Zambia’s former President lies unburied as politics and rivalry continue beyond death. Read on... from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/UMztoEO
U.S. has been seeking to negotiate a deal with Iran on its nuclear programme while threatening military action if talks fail from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/fiQATgI
The explosion caused a part of the building structure to collapse from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/eTizDcn
Modern vehicles equipped with cutting-edge sensors and communication systems are capable of “uncontrolled acquisition and use of data,” the Polish army wrote in a statement justifying the ban. from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/b8YJ3yr
U.S. accused China of conducting a secret nuclear test in 2020 as it called for a new, broader arms control treaty that would bring in China as well as Russia from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/iGZNhcz
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemned the overnight strikes on 12 Ukrainian regions that came under attack hours before the scheduled start of U.S.-backed trilateral talks involving Kyiv and Moscow in Geneva from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/NeisBSV
TTP claimed responsibility for the deadly suicide attack on the FC check post in the Bajaur district bordering Afghanistan from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/xedCaRB
Visitors can stay for up to 30 days for business, tourism, exchange programmes and to visit family and friends from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/Kk54MEs
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on February 16, that Moscow took a very negative view of what he said were false accusations from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/VWhAmfz
Bangladesh under the interim government has repeatedly urged India to hand over Sheikh Hasina and some of the other senior members of the Awami League who fled after the 2024 uprising from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/6Ey5esX
Two people were wounded in the attack on the port of Taman in the Krasnodar region, which damaged an oil storage tank, warehouse and terminals, according to regional Governor Veniamin Kondratyev from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/ewYlP80
The pact needs approval from the U.K. parliament before it is implemented from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/lUKWbTo
“Change, change, regime change”, the huge crowd chanted, waving green-white-and-red flags with lion and sun emblems. Iran used that flag before its 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the Pahlavi dynasty from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/zNMobJC
Medics said an Israeli airstrike on a tent encampment housing displaced families killed at least four people, while health officials said another strike killed five in Khan Younis in the south from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/7kEXbwy
The U.S. has already deployed USS Abraham Lincoln to the Arabian Sea, some 500 km off Iran’s Persian Gulf coast; on February 13, officials told U.S. media that the second carrier going to the region would be USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/mYBoZ0v
Trump had said on February 13, that a change of government in Iran would be the "best thing that could happen", as he sent a second aircraft carrier to the West Asia to ratchet up military pressure on the Islamic republic from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/7cCBASe
The BNP alliance won 212 seats, compared with 77 for the Jamaat-e-Islami-led alliance, according to the Electoral Commission from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/JGzXWMF
According to the Election Commission, 60.2% of voters backed the reform package from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/oJeX8am
Campaigning against illegal immigration helped Mr. Trump get elected in 2024, but daily videos from Minnesota of violent masked agents and multiple reports of people being targeted on flimsy evidence helped send the president’s approval ratings plummeting from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/YephwJH
This is the second murder of a Hindu person in as many days in Bangladesh; the Hindu population in Bangladesh has faced a series of attacks since December from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/3BTF54y
The Supreme Court’s directive follows alarming reports of Imran Khan’s deteriorating eyesight, prompting concerns over his health and living conditions while incarcerated from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/eKljyMG
At least nine people were killed and 26 got injured in a mass shooting in a Canada school. The suspected attacker, a female, ended her life in self-inflicted gun shot, said police from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/kPQa3C6
12 of the 16 convicted in the murder were handed death sentences by a three-member bench of the high court in the western town of Gampaha in a split decision; four other suspects were served suspended prison terms from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/JI54pBe
Emmanuel Macron spoke after dispatching a top adviser to Moscow last week, in the first such meeting since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/wDQuHCr
It will be their sixth meeting in the United States since Donald Trump returned to office a year ago; they also met in Jerusalem in October when Mr. Trump announced a ceasefire in Gaza from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/eLElqB8
The damage is extensive. Repairs will take a long time to restore the equipment to working order, says power company DTEK from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/ML8Hbxv
The National Security Service said that Saadoun Sabri al-Qaisi, who held the rank of Major General under Hussein and was arrested last year, was convicted of “grave crimes against humanity”. from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/93tNfQB
According to two decrees published by the Ukrainian presidency, targets of the sanctions include several Chinese companies as well as companies from the former Soviet Union, the United Arab Emirates and Panama from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/0VGbqKR
The Federal Security Service (FSB) said a Russian citizen, Lyubomir Korba, was detained in Dubai on suspicion of carrying out the shooting from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/dJGHiLx
While Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian praised the talks on Friday (February 6, 2026) in Oman with the Americans as “a step forward,” Foreign Minister Araghchi's remarks show the challenge ahead from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/qGHKOfa
Sanae Takaichi's relatively safe bet is that her LDP party would, together with its new partner, the Japan Innovation Party, or JIP, secure a majority in the 465-seat lower house from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/2ybGlFo
U.S. President Donald Trump said he had ordered all federal law enforcement to be at the family’s, and local law enforcement’s, “complete disposal, immediately” from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/KgfmMAJ
Emergency declared in hospitals; no group immediately claimed responsibility for blast at Shia mosque from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/6iYDNEb
This comes after the Supreme Court was hearing on five fundamental rights petitions seeking the court's intervention to declare that the Bill was inconsistent with the Constitution from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/kioyGDU
The Pakistan Army said that the operations were initiated in Panjgur and on the outskirts of Harnai district after credible and verified intelligence confirmed the presence of terrorists from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/rC3KUxD
"Diversifying our energy sourcing in keeping with objective market conditions and evolving international dynamics is at the core of our strategy to ensure this," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/uiHKXoe
Unclear whether Arab States will join; U.S. military on Tuesday (February 3, 2026) shot down an Iranian drone that “aggressively” approached the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/LGgF6d1
Dmitry Peskov said that Russia intends to continue to develop its relations with India in every possible way from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/M6JWG83
Many local schools were closed, and public transport services had been suspended in some areas from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/FfT8ahy
Colombian President has continued poking at the U.S. president, calling him an “accomplice to genocide” in the Gaza Strip, while asserting that the capture of Maduro was a kidnapping from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/XuicY9T
After congratulating Billie Eilish for winning the Grammy for Song of the Year for her track “Wildflower,” host Trevor Noah brought up Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/PLbNo7A
As tensions heightened between Iran and the United States, Tehran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday (February 1) said he was concerned about "miscalculations" from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/ng9tpBM
CapGemini said the process of divestment would be "initiated immediately" but did not say whether the sale was due to CGS' contract with ICE. from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/5JunxkE
Speaker Qalibaf said the national security parliamentary commission would deliberate on the expulsion of EU countries' military attaches from World News Today: International News Headlines - The Hindu | The Hindu https://ift.tt/ivEJg13