A 65-year-old man accused of shooting and critically injuring lieutenant general Vladimir Alekseyev on February 6 is detained in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is transported to Moscow, Russia.
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February 8, 2026 (Sunday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Disasters and accidents
At least six people are killed, seven others are injured and more are trapped when two adjoining five-storey residential buildings collapse in Tripoli, Libya.
More than 30 people are killed and many others are seriously injured in a traffic accident in Gezawa, Kano State, Nigeria.
Law and crime
An Iranian court sentences 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to seven years and six months in prison and two years of internal exile in South Khorasan for alleged collusion and propaganda-related charges, with the penalties running concurrently.
Venezuelan opposition figure Juan Pablo Guanipa is released from prison after more than eight months of incarceration in a detention facility in Caracas.
Politics and elections
The Liberal–National Coalition reforms in Opposition following its second split in the span of a year.
Thai citizens vote to elect all 500 seats in the House of Representatives and decide whether to begin a process to replace the current constitution.
Morgan McSweeney, the chief of staff to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, resigns over his role in the Mandelson affair.
Japanese citizens vote to elect all 465 seats in the House of Representatives, with the conservative ruling Liberal Democratic Party winning an overwhelming majority.
Socialist Party candidate António José Seguro is elected President of Portugal, defeating CHEGA leader André Ventura in the second round.
The postponement of elections in some municipalities are expected due to recent windstorms, including impacts from Storm Kristin.
February 7, 2026 (Saturday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
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.
Three Palestinians are injured when Israeli settlers attack residents in the northern Jordan Valley.
Armed men kill three people and kidnap eleven others, including a Catholic priest, in Kaduna State, Nigeria.
An Israeli airstrike destroys a residential building outside the areas controlled by Israel in Zaytun Quarter, Gaza Strip, Palestine.
Ukraine schedules emergency power outages across the country citing Russian attacks on thermal power stations.
Pakistani security forces arrest four people allegedly associated with the Khorasan Islamic State, accusing them of bombing the Shia mosque in Islamabad yesterday.
Business and economy
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.
Disasters and accidents
Six people are killed and three are injured after a truck rams into a bus on the Yamuna Expressway, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Two people killed, nine others are injured, and several are trapped, including students, when a three-story restaurant collapses in Kota, Rajasthan, India.
Eight people are killed in an explosion at a biotechnology factory in Shanyin County, Shanxi, China.
Fifteen people are killed after a minibus veers off a road and crashes into a valley near Badakhshan province, Afghanistan.
International relations
Algeria begins formal procedures to terminate its 2013 air transport agreement with the United Arab Emirates.
Law and crime
Police detain 313 people involved in a raid on the Aristotle University campus in Thessaloniki, Greece, after they attacked a group of riot police.
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.
Anti-Olympics protestors and police clash in Milan, Italy, with officers and their vans being targeted with fireworks and firecrackers.
Politics and elections
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.
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