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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks during a forum in Doha on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 8, 2026
Iran defies U.S. threats to insist on right to enrich uranium
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that Tehran had little trust in Washington and even doubted that the U.S. side was taking renewed negotiations seriously.
Senior Hamas leader Khaled Meshal in Cairo in 2009
WORLD / Politics
Feb 8, 2026
Top Hamas leader rejects disarmament or 'foreign rule'
"Criminalizing the resistance, its weapons?and those who carried it out is something we should not accept," Khaled Meshal said at a conference in Doha.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 8, 2026
U.S. pushes Russia and Ukraine to end war by summer, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said that Washington ?has proposed talks in Miami in a week, and that Kyiv has already agreed.
A boy looks at tents sheltering Palestinians displaced by conflict pitched by destroyed and heavily-damaged buildings in the Muqusi area of Gaza City on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 8, 2026
U.S.-led Board of Peace to hold first meeting of leaders Feb. 19
The meeting is set to be held at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a meeting with Antonio Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations (U.N.), at Downing Street in London on Jan. 16
WORLD / Politics
Feb 8, 2026
Six Labour figures queuing up to replace a weakened Starmer
Despite Labour's landslide in 2024, Starmer’s historically low approval ratings have left him weak and vulnerable.
Attendees examine Raytheon missiles during the Association of the United States Army annual meeting and exposition at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington in October 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 7, 2026
Trump orders prioritizing countries with higher defense spending as customers for U.S. weapons
The executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump ?establishing the "America First Arms Transfer Strategy" marks a significant shift ?in ?U.S. arms sales policy.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz speaks during an event at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Jan. 27.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 7, 2026
U.S. plans initial payment toward billions owed to U.N.
U.N. officials say more than 95% of what is owed to the regular U.N. budget is owed by the United States — $2.19 billion by the start of February.

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