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Monday, February 16, 2026 4:12 AM ET

BBC News - World

Trump's new world order has become real and Europe is having to adjust fast -- European nations are asking whether traditional alliances can suffice, or whether they should be diversifying -- BBC InDepth

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Iran must abandon enriched uranium and not produce more, Netanyahu says -- The Israeli PM's comments come ahead of Iran-US talks in Geneva on Tuesday to discuss a nuclear deal. -- World

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US attorney general criticised after saying all Epstein files have been released -- Lawmakers, including those who wrote the law requiring their publication, argue the release is insufficient. -- US & Canada

10 hours ago

Ukraine's ex-energy minister detained while attempting to leave country -- His detention comes as he faces legal proceedings after being dismissed in a corruption scandal. -- Europe

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What is the dart frog toxin allegedly used to kill Alexei Navalny? -- The toxin, epibatidine, can be found in frogs in the wild in South America or manufactured in a lab.

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Sydney police plead for return of man, 85, kidnapped by mistake -- Police say they're 'a million percent confident' Chris Baghsarian was not the intended target.

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ByteDance to curb AI video app after Disney legal threat -- Videos featuring Spider-Man and other characters which are Disney's intellectual property have gone viral since Seedance's update.

3 hours ago

US boards second tanker in Indian Ocean after tracking it from Caribbean -- The US accuses the Veronica III of violating a "quarantine" on oil shipments from Venezuela.

12 hours ago

Motorbike raids on villages kill dozens in Nigeria -- Armed men shot locals dead, set homes alight and abducted an "undetermined" number of people in Niger State.

17 hours ago

'Dragged out and set on fire' - the Bangladesh mob killing that shocked the world -- In December, Hindu factory worker Dipu Das was lynched in Bangladesh, igniting global outrage.

8 hours ago

Trump has big plans for Venezuela's oil but are they feasible? -- The US president wants American energy firms to start extracting the crude but they are reluctant.

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The spectacular multimillion-euro heist nobody noticed -- How did the thieves know exactly where the vault was and why did no-one hear the drill? Was it an inside job?

22 hours ago

'Trump will be gone in three years': Top Democrats try to reassure Europe -- Opposition politicians flocked to a summit in Munich to offer an alternative to America First - and stake a claim as future party leaders.

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An abduction, a Bitcoin demand and a TV icon - why Nancy Guthrie's case has gripped the US -- Savannah Guthrie's fame has helped turn her mother's abduction into a national obsession.

1 day ago

Watch: Moment crew docks at International Space Station -- The crew blasted off from Cape Canaveral in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket.

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Tribes grant the Colorado River legal personhood - can this help save it? -- The river, which runs through seven US states that share it, is currently facing the worst drought in 1,200 years.

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Gasps and disbelief in US as 'Quad God's' Olympic dream crumbles -- The BBC visited the skating rink in Virginia where the 'Quad God' trains, as his closest friends and teammates expected to watch him win gold.

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Watch: 'I am a survivor' Gisèle Pelicot tells BBC Newsnight -- Ms Pelicot reveals it is "inconceivable" that the man she shared her life with "could have committed these horrors".

2 days ago

Why India's AI summit is key to its future in tech -- The BBC's Arunoday Mukharji explains why India needs to capitalise on the momentum.

44 minutes ago

Smith added to Australia squad before crucial match -- Batter Steve Smith is added to Australia's T20 World Cup squad in time for Monday's crucial match against Sri Lanka in Kandy.

53 minutes ago

Bondi Beach shooting accused faces court for the first time -- The 24-year-old faces 59 charges, including 15 counts of murder and one of committing a terrorist attack.

1 hour ago

Female Israeli soldiers rescued after being chased by ultra-Orthodox men -- The two women were helped by police after being forced to run from a mob in the city of Bnei Brak.

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'It's never too late': Savannah Guthrie's new plea for mother's release as FBI analyses glove -- The FBI says it recovered a DNA sample from the glove, which was found in a field a few miles from Guthrie's home.

4 hours ago

Watch: Singles pray to a goddess for love in Bangkok -- A Lakshmi goddess shrine at Bangkok shopping mall has become a place where young people come to pray for love.

6 hours ago

Ex-church minister who admitted child sexual abuse to BBC still free years later -- Robert Corfield, who admitted abusing a child to the BBC, was a minister in a shadowy church known as The Truth.

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