The edition of
Saturday 7 February 2026
22 stories, section by section, the most important first.
International
At least 24 people are killed, including eight children, in a drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces on a vehicle carrying displaced families near Er Rahad, North Kordofan, Sudan.
Pakistani security forces arrest four people allegedly associated with the Khorasan Islamic State, accusing them of bombing the Shia mosque in Islamabad yesterday.
An Israeli airstrike destroys a residential building outside the areas controlled by Israel in Zaytun Quarter, Gaza Strip, Palestine.
Three Palestinians are injured when Israeli settlers attack residents in the northern Jordan Valley.
The Allied Democratic Forces attack a village in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing at least 20 people.
Ukraine schedules emergency power outages across the country citing Russian attacks on thermal power stations.
Armed men kill three people and kidnap eleven others, including a Catholic priest, in Kaduna State, Nigeria.
Algeria begins formal procedures to terminate its 2013 air transport agreement with the United Arab Emirates.
Politics
The mandate for the Transitional Presidential Council in Haiti expires, with the powers of the presidency transferred to Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, who survived a removal attempt by the council two weeks ago.
Business
Saudi Arabia and Syria sign agreements covering a joint low-cost carrier, a new international airport in Aleppo, and a US$1 billion telecommunications project as part of broader investment efforts following the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Syria.
The Law
Suspected saboteurs damage rail infrastructure in different locations near Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, disrupting journeys on the first full day of the Winter Olympics.
Seven people are injured, including the perpetrator and four Indian nationals, in a mass stabbing at the Bashkir State Medical University in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia.
Police arrest a woman and seize over 10,500 blasting gelatin sticks, wires, and detonators from a lorry carrying onions parked at a bricks manufacturing unit in Chemmad, Kerala, India.
Police detain 313 people involved in a raid on the Aristotle University campus in Thessaloniki, Greece, after they attacked a group of riot police.
Anti-Olympics protestors and police clash in Milan, Italy, with officers and their vans being targeted with fireworks and firecrackers.
Environment
Two people are killed, nine others are injured, and several are trapped, including students, when a three-story restaurant collapses in Kota, Rajasthan, India.
Fifteen people are killed after a minibus veers off a road and crashes into a valley near Badakhshan province, Afghanistan.
Eight people are killed in an explosion at a biotechnology factory in Shanyin County, Shanxi, China.
Seven people are killed in a mining accident at a gold mine in Zhaoyuan, Shandong, China.
Six people are killed and three are injured after a truck rams into a bus on the Yamuna Expressway, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Three skiers are killed in avalanches in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Lombardy, Italy.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 7 February 2026, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.