The edition of
Thursday 26 February 2026
7 stories, section by section, the most important first.
International
Afghanistan announces attacks against Pakistani military positions along their shared border in response to Pakistani air strikes launched 4 days prior. Pakistan, in turn, says its forces have responded.
Politics
Green Party candidate Hannah Spencer wins the constituency of Gorton and Denton in Greater Manchester, England, in the party's first by-election win.
Albanian prime minister Edi Rama dismisses deputy prime minister and infrastructure minister Belinda Balluku after anti-corruption prosecutors indicted her on suspicion of interfering in the award of two public construction contracts worth more than €200 million.
Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen calls a snap election for March 24 amid the Greenland crisis.
The Law
A Greek court sentences four individuals, including Intellexa's Israel-based founder Tal Dilian, to eight years in prison for breaching data and violating privacy laws after they deployed the Predator spyware, targeting the mobile phones of more than 90 politicians, journalists, businesspeople, and military officials in 2022.
Environment
The death toll from the floods across Minas Gerais, Brazil, rises to 54 people, with fourteen more still missing.
Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 26 February 2026, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.