Global events and international developments affecting markets.
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U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner conducted shuttle diplomacy in Geneva on Tuesday, handling separate negotiations on Iran's nuclear program and the Russia-Ukraine war in the same day. Delegations held indirect talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi mediated by Oman and then moved to talks on Ukraine at a Geneva hotel. Official…
Shia LaBeouf was arrested shortly after midnight in New Orleans after police say the 39-year-old actor assaulted two men during a disturbance on Royal Street amid Mardi Gras celebrations. Officers report he struck a staffer multiple times, later returning and escalating the confrontation before bystanders held him until police arrived. He was taken…
Peru's Congress voted to remove President Jose Jeri from office after four months amid controversy over a secret meeting with a Chinese businessman. Lawmakers passed a censure motion that strips Jeri of his role as head of Congress and, because of his interim succession status, removes him from the presidency. Legislators must now elect a new head …
Mississippi’s Department of Environmental Quality will hold a public hearing on Tuesday regarding xAI’s proposal to install gas-fired turbines at a Southaven site to provide power for the Colossus II data center across the state line in Memphis. The NAACP has signaled its intent to sue, alleging the company installed and operated multiple gas turbi…
Jesse Jackson, a Baptist minister who emerged from the segregated South to become a prominent civil rights leader, a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr., and a two-time Democratic presidential candidate, has died at age 84, his family said. Political figures and activists across the globe issued statements reflecting on his campaigns, interna…
A Santa Clara County judge declared a mistrial after jurors failed to reach unanimous verdicts in the case of five current and former Stanford students charged over a 2024 pro-Palestinian occupation that left the university president’s office damaged. The jury split on felony counts of vandalism and conspiracy to trespass, and prosecutors have indi…
Tarique Rahman was sworn in as Bangladesh's prime minister following his party's decisive parliamentary victory. The ceremony was held outdoors at the national parliament complex, and Rahman inherits an agenda that includes restoring political stability, rebuilding investor trust and reviving key industries that suffered during prolonged unrest aft…
Gisele Pelicot, 73, publishes a memoir recounting the mass-rape case in which her then-husband organized dozens of attacks on her unconscious body. The book traces her choice to waive anonymity, the discovery of the assaults, the trial that led to convictions of 50 men and her husband, and how correspondence from other women and a new relationship …
Ukrainian and Russian delegations are meeting in Geneva for U.S.-facilitated negotiations focused largely on control of territory, the core disagreement between the two sides. The talks come amid continued Russian occupation of roughly one-fifth of Ukraine, recent strikes on energy infrastructure, and sharp disagreement over issues including the Za…
President Trump said he will take an indirect role in upcoming Geneva negotiations between the United States and Iran on Tehran's nuclear program, asserting that Iran seeks a deal. The announcement came as U.S. forces increased their presence in the Middle East, with a second aircraft carrier deployed and military planners preparing for a possible …
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has announced that the family of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie - mother of television co-anchor Savannah Guthrie - are not suspects in her disappearance. Authorities say the family, including all siblings and spouses, have cooperated fully. Investigators recovered a glove near the Tucson-area home that produced a DNA sam…
Piles of household waste have accumulated across Havana after fuel shortfalls forced many municipal rubbish trucks out of service. With only 44 of 106 collection vehicles currently able to operate, residents and authorities are confronting mounting sanitation and health concerns amid a broader drop in the island’s oil supply linked to halted shipme…
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that Ukrainian intelligence indicates new Russian strikes targeting energy infrastructure are being prepared, complicating prospects for a negotiated end to the nearly four-year conflict. The warning comes as Ukrainian, Russian and U.S. delegations gather in Geneva for a round of talks that will, for the first t…
Robert Duvall, an actor celebrated for both commanding leads and quietly powerful supporting parts, has died at 95, his wife announced on Facebook. Across a career approaching a century of films, Duvall earned an Academy Award for "Tender Mercies" and received six additional Oscar nominations for roles that included a Mafia consigliere, an off-kilt…
Colombia’s Search Unit for Disappeared People (UBPD) announced the identification and handover of the remains of Camilo Torres, a Catholic priest who joined the National Liberation Army (ELN) and was killed in combat in February 1966. Using a combination of public and classified records and DNA comparison with a sample taken from Torres’ father, th…
Five European countries say analyses have conclusively identified epibatidine, a toxin associated with poison dart frogs, in samples from Alexei Navalny, who died in a remote Russian penal colony on February 16, 2024. The Kremlin has strongly rejected the allegations, while Navalny's widow says the findings finally prove her claim that he was murde…
Imran Khan’s sons, Kasim and Sulaiman, who live in London, say they fear for their father's worsening health while he remains jailed in Pakistan and have applied for visas to visit him. They describe limited communication and say their father reported delays in receiving eye treatment. Pakistani authorities say medical care is being provided and ha…
Armed attackers on motorcycles carried out pre-dawn raids on three villages in Niger State, northwest Nigeria, killing at least 30 people, burning homes and shops, and prompting residents to flee. Local authorities confirmed fatalities and abductions in one village while witnesses described widespread violence, including the burning of a police sta…
Official figures obtained via a freedom-of-information request show inmate deaths in Ecuador climbed sharply in 2025, reaching levels not seen since the 2021 unrest. Of 1,220 deaths reported last year, at least 206 were attributed to violence during gang clashes, while the remainder were recorded as illness, suicide or undetermined causes amid a tu…
Syrian Kurdish authorities released 34 Australians from the Roj camp on Feb. 16. The group was handed over to relatives who traveled to Syria to collect them and were put on small buses bound for Damascus ahead of a planned flight to Australia. The release comes amid ongoing transfers and shifting control in northern Syria, where thousands linked t…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed cautious hope that upcoming U.S.-brokered trilateral talks in Geneva will produce substantive progress, while criticizing what he sees as disproportionate pressure on Ukraine to make concessions. He also accused Russia of attempting to slow the process by changing its lead negotiator, and called for…
Five European governments announced that laboratory analyses of samples from Alexei Navalny's body detected epibatidine, a potent toxin associated with South American poison dart frogs, and concluded the poisoning was the likely cause of his death in a Russian Arctic prison two years ago. Russia rejected the findings as propaganda and questioned th…
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasised shared heritage with Europe and pledged continued partnership, drawing praise from some leaders while prompting caution from others. His remarks offered political reassurance after a turbulent year in transatlantic relations but contained few specific policy …
North Korea plans to set new arms development objectives at its Ninth Party Congress as assessments show only partial fulfillment of the ambitions Kim Jong Un outlined in 2021. Nuclear and ballistic missile programs continue to be central, but progress on conventional capabilities - such as unmanned systems, submarines and space-based reconnaissanc…
A 24-year-old man charged over a mass shooting at a Hanukkah gathering on Bondi Beach made his first court appearance via video link while held at a maximum-security prison. He faces 59 charges, including 15 counts of murder and a terror offence, and the matter was adjourned until April as legal teams await the prosecution brief.
