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  • Argentina Signs Critical Minerals Deal With US, Foreign Ministry Says

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    Feb 4 (Reuters) – ‌Argentina ​and ‌the United States ​signed an ‍agreement on critical ​minerals ​on ⁠Wednesday to strengthen and secure supply chains, ‌the Argentine foreign ​ministry said.

    The ‌ministry ‍said in a ⁠statement that the initiative is expected to ​drive significant economic growth for Argentina. The country’s mining exports reached $6.04 billion in 2025, the ministry said. 

    (Reporting ​by Leila Miller; Writing by Brendan O’Boyle; ​editing by Cassandra Garrison)

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  • US Judge Sets Friday Hearing on Suit to Restore New York Tunnel Funding

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    WASHINGTON, Feb ‌4 (Reuters) – ​A U.S. ‌judge will ​hold a hearing ‍on Friday on ​the ​emergency ⁠request of New York and New Jersey to force the ‌restoration of funding for ​the massive $16 ‌billion ‍Hudson River ⁠tunnel before construction is set to halt on Friday.

    The states, ​which filed suit late on Tuesday, have asked for a temporary restraining order that would bar the U.S. Transportation Department ​from withholding funding.

    (Reporting by David Shepardson in Washington; ​Editing by Chris Reese)

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  • Four People, Including Two Chinese Nationals, Arrested in France on Suspicion of Spying

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    PARIS, Feb 4 (Reuters) – ‌Four ​people, including two ‌Chinese nationals, have been ​arrested in France on suspicion ‍of spying for China ​and have been ​brought ⁠before an investigative judge, the Paris public prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday

    On February 4, the cybercrime ‌division of the Paris public prosecutor’s ​office opened ‌a judicial ‍investigation into ⁠the affair, said the prosecutor’s office in a statement.

    This followed the discovery that two Chinese nationals had entered French territory ​with the aim of capturing satellite data from the Starlink network and data from entities of vital importance, particularly military entities, in order to transmit it to their country of origin, namely China.

    Four people were ​brought before the investigating judge, with two of them being remanded in custody, it ​added.

    (Reporting by Dominique Vidalon;Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)

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  • Olympics-Italy Foiled Russia-Linked Cyberattacks on Embassies, Olympic Sites, Minister Says

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    MILAN, Feb ‌4 (Reuters) –  Italy ​has thwarted ‌a series of ​cyberattacks targeting its foreign ‍ministry facilities, including ​an ​embassy ⁠in Washington, as well as websites linked to the Winter Olympics ‌and hotels in Cortina ​d’Ampezzo, Foreign ‌Minister Antonio ‍Tajani said ⁠on Tuesday.

    “These are actions of Russian origin,” Tajani said in remarks confirmed ​by a spokesperson.

    “We prevented a series of cyberattacks against foreign ministry sites, starting with Washington and also involving some Winter Olympics sites, including ​hotels in Cortina,” he said.

    (Reporting by Giselda Vagnoni and Cristina ​Carlevaro, editing by Ed Osmond)

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  • A New Nuclear Age Beckons as Clock Ticks Down on Last Russia-US Arms Deal

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    By Guy Faulconbridge and Mark Trevelyan

    MOSCOW, Feb 4 (Reuters) – The last nuclear treaty ‌between ​Russia and the United States is due ‌to expire within hours, raising the risk of a new arms race in which China will ​also play a key role.

    The web of arms control deals negotiated in the decades since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, considered the closest the world ‍ever came to intentional nuclear war, were ​aimed at reducing the chance of a catastrophic nuclear exchange.

    Unless Washington and Moscow reach a last-minute understanding of some kind, the world’s two ​biggest nuclear powers ⁠will be left without any limits for the first time in more than half a century when the New START treaty expires.

    COSTS COULD CONSTRAIN NEW ARMS RACE

    There was confusion about the exact time it would lapse, though arms control experts told Reuters they believed this would happen at 2300 GMT on Wednesday – midnight in Prague, where the treaty was signed in 2010.

    Matt Korda, associate director for the ‌Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, said that if there was no agreement to extend its key ​provisions, neither ‌Russia nor the United States ‍would be constrained if they ⁠wanted to add yet more warheads.

    “Without the treaty, each side will be free to upload hundreds of additional warheads onto their deployed missiles and heavy bombers, roughly doubling the sizes of their currently deployed arsenals in the most maximalist scenario,” he said.

    Korda said it was important to recognise that the expiry of New START did not necessarily mean an arms race given the cost of nuclear weapons.

    U.S. President Donald Trump has given different signals on arms control. He said last month that if the treaty expired, he would do a better agreement.

    So far, Russian officials said, there ​has been no response from Washington on President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to extend the limits of the treaty beyond expiry.

    THE DEATH OF ARMS CONTROL

    Total inventories of nuclear warheads declined to about 12,000 warheads in 2025 from a peak of more than 70,000 in 1986, but the United States and Russia are upgrading their weapons and China has more than doubled its arsenal over the past decade.

    Arms control supporters in Moscow and Washington say the expiry of the treaty would not only remove limits on warheads but also damage confidence, trust and the ability to verify nuclear intentions.

    Opponents of arms control on both sides say such benefits are nebulous at best and that such treaties hinder nuclear innovation by major powers, allow cheating and essentially narrow the room for manoeuvre of great powers.

    Last year, Trump said that he wanted China to ​be part of arms control and questioned why the United States and Russia should build new nuclear weapons given that they had enough to destroy the world many times over.

    “If there’s ever a time when we need nuclear weapons like the kind of weapons that we’re building and that Russia has and that China has to a lesser extent but ​will have, that’s going to be a very sad day,” he said in February last year.

    “That’s going to be probably oblivion.”

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  • Fifteen Migrants Died off Greece After Boat Collision With Coast Guard

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    ATHENS, Feb 3 (Reuters) – Fifteen migrants died in ‌the ​Aegean Sea off Greece on ‌Tuesday after their boat collided with a coast guard ​vessel off the island of Chios, the coast guard said.

    A coastguard official said they spotted ‍a dingy transporting migrants towards Chios, ​which lies a few miles off the coast of Turkey, and ordered them ​to turn ⁠back. 

    “The smugglers manoeuvred toward the coast guard vessel causing a collision,” the official told Reuters.

    The coast guard said 25 migrants were rescued but one of them, a woman, later died. A search and rescue operation was ongoing.

    Reuters was unable ‌to independently verify how the collision occurred. The nationality of the migrants was ​not ‌clear. 

    Two coast guard officers were ‍injured ⁠and transferred to hospital, a second official told Reuters. Witnesses reported that about 30-35 people were on board, a government official said.

    Greece, in the southeast corner of the European Union, has long been a favoured gateway to Europe for migrants and refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

    In 2015-2016, Greece was at the frontline of Europe’s migration ​crisis and nearly one million people landed on its islands, including Chios, from Turkey. 

    In recent years, arrivals have dropped and Greece has toughened its stance on migrants. Since 2019, the centre-right government has reinforced border controls with fences and sea patrols.

    Greece has come under scrutiny for its treatment of migrants and refugees approaching by sea, including one shipwreck in 2023 in which hundreds of migrants died after what witnesses said was the coastguard’s attempt to tow their trawler.

    The EU border agency said last year that ​it was reviewing 12 cases of potential human rights violations by Greece, including some allegations migrants seeking asylum were pushed back from Greece’s frontiers.

    Greece denies that it violates human rights or that it forcefully returns ​asylum seekers from its shores.

    (Reporting by Lefteris Papadimas, Yannis Souliotis and Renne Maltezou; Editing by Edward McAllister)

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  • Congo Rebel Leader Claims Responsibility for Drone Attack on Strategic Northeast City

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    Feb 3 (Reuters) – The leader ‌of ​the AFC/M23 rebel ‌movement in Democratic Republic of Congo ​on Tuesday claimed responsibility on social media for ‍a drone attack targeting ​the airport in the strategic ​northeastern ⁠city of Kisangani.

    The government of Tshopo province, where Kisangani is located, said in a statement on Sunday that eight explosive‑laden drones had targeted ‌the airport serving Kisangani.

    The airport lies about 17 ​km ‌from central Kisangani, hundreds ‍of ⁠kilometres from the front lines in North and South Kivu provinces, where AFC/M23 has seized large swathes of territory since 2022, capturing the key cities of Goma and Bukavu in ​a lightning offensive last year.

    In a post on X, Corneille Nangaa, who leads the AFC, said the attack demonstrated that Congo’s military no longer had air superiority.

    “The use of Kisangani as a platform for projecting terror against our territories is now prohibited. The sanctuary of this rear ​base is over,” he said.

    Congo’s military has not responded to requests for comment on the attacks.

    (Reporting by Clement Bonnerot and ​Congo newsroom; Writing by Ayen Deng Bior and Robbie Corey-Boulet)

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  • Exclusive-US Shoots Down Iranian Drone Approaching Aircraft Carrier, Official Says

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    Feb 3 (Reuters) – ‌The ​U.S. ‌military shot ​down on ‍Tuesday an ​Iranian ​drone that ⁠approached the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier ‌in the Arabian ​Sea, a ‌U.S. ‍official told ⁠Reuters on Tuesday. 

    The Iranian Shahed-139 drone ​was flying towards the carrier and was shot down by a F-35 U.S. fighter jet.

    (Reporting by ​Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart; Editing ​by Chizu Nomiyama )

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  • French Teacher Stabbed by Pupil in Southern France School

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    PARIS, Feb ‌3 (Reuters) – ​A French ‌teacher was stabbed by ​a pupil in ‍a school in ​Sanary-sur-Mer, ​in ⁠southern France, on Tuesday, the French Education Minister Edouard Geffray said on X, ‌adding he was immediately ​heading to ‌the school.

    BFM ‍TV, citing ⁠the local Var department prefect, said the 60-year old teacher was stabbed with ​a knife by a 14-year old in her classroom and that her life was at risk.

    The pupil is being detained, BFM TV said. It was ​not immediately clear why the stabbing occurred.

    (Reporting by Dominique Vidalon; ​Editing by Benoit Van Overstraeten)

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  • Judge in Charlie Kirk Case to Consider Bid to Disqualify Prosecutors

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    Feb 3 (Reuters) – Lawyers for the man ‌accused ​of assassinating conservative activist Charlie ‌Kirk will urge a judge on Tuesday to dismiss the prosecution ​team due to alleged conflict of interest because the lead prosecutor’s daughter witnessed the killing.

    Attorneys for ‍22-year-old Tyler Robinson, who is ​charged with seven criminal counts in the shooting death of Kirk at a Utah ​college campus ⁠last year, will appear before District Court Judge Tony Graf in Provo, Utah.

    Defense attorneys have said in court filings that the Utah County Attorney’s decision to seek the death penalty for Robinson less than a week after Kirk’s death on September 10 showed a “strong ‌emotional reaction” by the prosecutor.

    The prosecution denies bias. The lead prosecutor has not been ​named ‌to protect the privacy of ‍the 18-year-old ⁠daughter, who was in the crowd when Kirk was killed. 

    Robinson, charged with aggravated murder, witness tampering and obstruction of justice, will not enter a plea until after a preliminary hearing, tentatively scheduled for mid-May. 

    The accused, who was studying to be an electrician, is alleged to have fired a single round from a rooftop that hit Kirk as he debated students at Utah Valley University ​in Orem during a tour of U.S. colleges. 

    In court documents, the prosecutor’s office said the decision to seek the death penalty was motivated by the nature of the murder, which put other people’s lives in danger.

    Prosecutors have asked to show a video of Kirk’s killing during Tuesday’s hearing to demonstrate that the young woman was just one of thousands of witnesses. The Utah County Attorney said prosecutors do not need or plan to have her testify. 

    Robinson’s team has contended that showing the video, taken a few feet from Kirk, will violate the defendant’s ​right to a fair trial. The hearing will be televised, and the defense has argued the video would taint potential jurors because it is too graphic.  

    Kirk is credited with mobilizing young voters who helped President Donald Trump win the 2024 ​election and his death underscored rising political violence in the United States.

    (Reporting by Andrew Hay in New Mexico; editing by Donna Bryson)

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  • NATO’s Rutte to Meet Zelenskiy in Kyiv, FT Says

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    Feb 3 (Reuters) – ‌NATO ​Secretary General ‌Mark Rutte ​has arrived in ‍Kyiv and will ​meet ​with ⁠Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a Financial Times correspondent said ‌in a post on ​X.

    Rutte’s ‌reported visit ‍comes after ⁠Russia attacked Ukraine with 450 drones and over 60 ​missiles overnight.

    Russia and Ukraine said last week they halted strikes on each other’s energy infrastructure, but disagreed on the timeframe ​for the truce.

    (Reporting by Akanksha Khushi in Bengaluru; ​Editing by Sharon Singleton)

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  • New Tempest Threatens Portugal, One Week After Storm Kristin

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    LISBON, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Portugal is bracing ‌for ​a new storm that ‌authorities warn could trigger floods and further ​devastation, as the country still struggles with the aftermath of Storm ‍Kristin.

    The Portuguese Institute of the ​Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA) said late Monday that the ​new ⁠storm, named Leonardo, is expected to begin impacting mainland Portugal from Tuesday afternoon through Saturday.

    The Iberian Peninsula has experienced a succession of storms bringing heavy rain, thunder, snow and strong gales in ‌the last few months, with southern Spain facing what some ​residents describe ‌as its wettest ‍winter ⁠in 40 years.

    IPMA said Leonardo may bring persistent and at times heavy rain, with wind gusts reaching up to 75 km/h (47 mph) along the coast south of Cabo Mondego in the country’s central region, and 95 km/h in the highlands.

    The gusts, however, should be less ​intense than those exceeding 200 km/h unleashed by Storm Kristin, which battered central mainland Portugal from early last Wednesday, killing at least six people and leaving a trail of destruction across homes, factories and critical infrastructure.

    Daniela Fraga, deputy commander of national emergency and civil protection authority ANEPC, told reporters late on Monday that heavy rain in the coming days could lead to floods and inundations, mainly ​in the regions that were affected by Storm Kristin.

    Nearly 134,000 households were still without electricity, around 95,000 of them in the Leiria region in the centre of the ​country, power distribution company E-Redes said.

    (Reporting by Sergio Goncalves; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

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  • Russia Is Ready for a New World With No Nuclear Limits, Ryabkov Says

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    MOSCOW, Feb ‌3 (Reuters) – ​Russia is ‌ready for ​the new reality ‍of a world ​with ​no ⁠nuclear arms control limits after the New START treaty ‌expires later this week, ​Russia’s ‌point man ‍for arms ⁠control said on Tuesday.

    Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov ​also said that if the U.S. pumped lots of missile defence systems onto Greenland then Russia would have to take ​compensatory measures in its military sphere.

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  • Tulsi Gabbard Says Trump Requested Her Presence at FBI Raid in Fulton County

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    WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) – U.S. Director of ‌National ​Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on ‌Monday she was present at last week’s FBI raid on an ​election facility in Georgia at the request of President Donald Trump and that her attendance was within ‍her authority.

    Gabbard wrote in a ​letter to lawmakers dated Monday that she observed FBI personnel executing a search warrant in ​Fulton County ⁠and was present there for a “brief period of time.”

    Top Democrats on the Senate and House of Representatives intelligence committees had called for Gabbard to brief their panels on why she was present at the raid and raised concerns about her presence.

    Gabbard also said that while ‌visiting the FBI field office in Atlanta, she “facilitated a brief phone call” for Trump ​to ‌thank FBI agents for their ‍work on ⁠the probe, a departure from law enforcement norms.

    She added in the letter that Trump did not ask any questions and that she and Trump did not issue any directives.

    The FBI searched Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center on Wednesday, pursuing Trump’s false claims that his 2020 election defeat was the result of widespread voting fraud.

    Claims of voting fraud in the 2020 presidential election have been ​rejected by courts, state governments and members of Trump’s own former administration.

    Gabbard’s letter was addressed to Democratic U.S. Senator Mark Warner and Representative Jim Himes. Warner’s office said Gabbard’s letter “raises more questions than it answers.”

    It is unusual for America’s top intelligence official to be included in a domestic law enforcement operation as the remit of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is overseas spying and protecting national security.

    “My presence was requested by the President and executed under my broad statutory authority to coordinate, integrate, and analyze intelligence related to election security, including ​counter-intelligence, foreign and other malign influence and cybersecurity,” Gabbard wrote.

    Experts had raised legal questions over Gabbard’s presence.

    “The DNI has authorities set out by statute and they don’t include investigating past elections for potential fraud,” Robert Litt, who served as the top ​ODNI lawyer from 2009 to 2017, told Reuters last week.

    (Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)

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  • Portugal Counts Multi‑billion‑euro Damage After Storm Kristin Tears off Roofs

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    LISBON/LEIRIA, Feb ‌2 (Reuters) – ​Last week’s Storm Kristin ‌left hundreds of homes in central Portugal without roofs, ​tens of thousands without power and residents lining up for emergency building materials, as ‍authorities warned damage could run ​into billions of euros.

    The storm swept across the region early on ​Wednesday, with ⁠wind gusts topping 200 kph (124 mph) and heavy rain uprooting trees and ripping off roofs. It killed at least six people and cut power to hundreds of thousands of households.

    “The roof blew off, all the windowpanes are ‌broken, everything is chaos and misery,” said Paula Franco as she queued ​in ‌Leiria for donated tiles ‍to repair ⁠her home.

    Portugal’s government on Sunday approved a 2.5 billion-euro ($2.95 billion) package of loans and incentives to help people and businesses rebuild after the storm.

    The government could apply for grants from the European Solidarity Fund and unused EU recovery funds to finance reconstruction, Environment and Energy Minister Maria da Graca Carvalho said on Monday ​at a joint news conference with EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen.

    Leiria, one of Portugal’s main industrial hubs known for its plastics and metalworking industries, was among the hardest-hit areas.

    Hundreds of houses, several roads, schools, factories and railway lines have been affected. At the Monte Real air base near Leiria, the storm damaged several aircraft, including F16 fighter jets.

    Nearly 170,000 households were still without electricity on Monday, Graca Carvalho said.

    Damage in the region could total between 1.5 billion euros ​and 2 billion euros, Henrique Carvalho, president of the Leiria Business Association, told broadcaster NOW.

    The government on Sunday extended a state of calamity in 69 municipalities until February 8, with more heavy rain ​and flooding expected.

    (Reporting by Sergio Goncalves and Miguel Pereira; editing by Charlie Devereux and Ros Russell)

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  • Factbox-What to Know About Gaza’s Rafah Border Crossing

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    GAZA, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Gaza’s Rafah border, the only crossing connecting the besieged Palestinian ‌enclave ​with Egypt, reopened on Monday for a limited ‌number of travellers on foot after being sealed shut by Israel for nearly a year.

    The crossing was seized ​by Israel in May 2024, in the early months of its war against Hamas militants. Its reopening comes as a relief to Palestinians who want to leave ‍Gaza for medical care or those who want ​to return after fleeing the fighting.

    Below are details about Rafah as well as the coastal enclave’s crossings with Israel.

    The Rafah crossing sits at ​Gaza’s southern border ⁠with Egypt, connecting the Palestinian territory to the Sinai Peninsula. It is the sole route in and out for nearly all of Gaza’s more than 2 million Palestinians.

    The crossing is adjacent to the city of Rafah, once home to a quarter million people but now completely demolished and depopulated by Israeli forces.

    The border area between Rafah and Egypt is known as the Philadelphi Corridor, a 14.5-km-long (9-mile) sandy stretch that before the war had ‌been crisscrossed by tunnels that allowed Palestinians to smuggle in weapons and commercial goods, circumventing an Israeli-led blockade.

    The crossing is controlled on the ​Gaza ‌side by Israeli security personnel, with ‍monitoring by European Union and ⁠Palestinian Authority officials.

    Photos of the Gaza side crossing published by the Israeli military show a series of tall fences topped with barbed wire leading to high metal and concrete walls.

    WHO WILL BE ALLOWED IN AND OUT?

    The border will only be open for Palestinians entering and exiting on foot, and only after security approvals by Israeli and Egyptian authorities.

    Two Palestinian sources said that 50 Palestinians would be permitted to enter Gaza per day, and a similar number would be permitted to leave.

    Some 100,000 Palestinians escaped Gaza in the early months of the war and many are seeking to return to reunite with family, even if that means living in ​the ruins of their destroyed homes and cities.

    There are also an estimated 20,000 Palestinian medical patients seeking to exit Gaza for urgent care.

    Diplomats say that Israel is expected to allow more people to leave than to enter. The right-wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made no secret of its desire for Palestinians to permanently depart the enclave.

    Despite the limited reopening of Rafah, Israel is still refusing to allow the entry of foreign journalists, who have been banned from the Gaza Strip since the start of the war.

    Reporting from inside Gaza for international media including Reuters is carried out solely by journalists who live there, hundreds of whom have been killed.

    WHAT ARE GAZA’S OTHER CROSSINGS?

    Gaza has one main border crossing with Israel, Kerem Shalom in the south, that has been mostly operational since the start of the war.

    This crossing sits at the southeastern end of the Philadelphi Corridor. It has handled the entry ​of humanitarian aid and commercial goods. Palestinians are generally banned from crossing.

    Some Palestinian medical patients, students and others have been permitted to leave Gaza through Kerem Shalom. Israel has also allowed some Palestinians to leave through the crossing and board flights out of the country.

    Before the war, Israel operated a crossing at Gaza’s northern border – Erez – but it has been shut since the start of the ​war on October 7, 2023.

    Some other entry points to Gaza have worked intermittently since the start of the war to let in humanitarian aid.

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  • Drone Incidents at UK Military Bases Doubled Last Year

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    LONDON, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Britain’s military bases ‌experienced ​a doubling of ‌drone incidents last year, highlighting the changing nature ​of warfare and prompting the government to hand more powers ‍to its forces to protect ​sites from aerial threats.

    In 2025, there were 266 ​reported ⁠uncrewed aerial vehicle incidents near defence sites in Britain, up from 126 reported in 2024, part of a wider trend of European airspace being targeted by drones.

    “The doubling of rogue drones ‌near military sites in the UK in the last ​year underlines ‌the increasing and changing ‍nature ⁠of the threats we face,” Defence minister John Healey said in a statement on Monday.

    Drone incursions forced airports in Belgium and Denmark to close for hours at a time in the last few months of 2025, with experts saying the incidents had ​the hallmarks of Russian interference, a charge denied by Moscow.

    In order to counter the threat from drones to British bases, Healey said military officers would be given new powers to destroy drones operating near them, an action that previously required the involvement of the police.

    The new powers will also mean the military can destroy land drones and unmanned vehicles operating under water.

    Healey said ​security at military sites had been stepped up. Last June, pro-Palestinian activists broke into a Royal Air Force base, damaging and spraying red paint over two ​planes used for refuelling and transport.

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  • China Hands Life Sentence to Former Justice Minister Over Bribery

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    BEIJING, ‌Feb ​2 (Reuters) – ‌A Chinese ​court ‍on ​Monday ​sentenced China’s ⁠former justice ‌minister Tang ​Yijun to ‌life ‍in prison for ⁠taking ​bribes, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

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  • Russia’s Medvedev Says Expiry of New START Should Alarm the World

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    MOSCOW, Feb 2 (Reuters) – ‌Dmitry ​Medvedev, deputy ‌chairman of Russia’s Security Council, ​said that if the New ‍START treaty expired ​with no replacement ​then ⁠the world should be alarmed that the biggest nuclear powers had no limits for probably the first ‌time since the early 1970s.

    “I don’t ​want ‌to say that ‍this ⁠immediately means a catastrophe and a nuclear war will begin, but it should still alarm everyone,” Medvedev told Reuters, TASS and ​the WarGonzo Russian war blogger in an interview at his residence outside Moscow.

    Arms control treaties, Medvedev said, played a crucial role not just in limiting the number of warheads but also as a way ​to verify intentions and to ensure some element of trust between major nuclear powers.

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  • Patriots, Seahawks Arrive in San Jose Ahead of Super Bowl Showdown

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    SAN JOSE, California, Feb ‌1 (Reuters) – ​The New ‌England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks ​arrived in San Jose, California, on ‍Sunday to begin weeklong ​preparations for Super Bowl ​LX ⁠in nearby Santa Clara.

    The Patriots touched down first, with players and coaches exiting their plane to partly sunny skies. The ‌Seahawks arrived approximately 90 minutes later ​after a ‌send-off parade of ‍fans ⁠in cloudy Seattle.

    Both teams are scheduled to meet with the media on Monday during Super Bowl Opening Night, the traditional start to game-week festivities.

    The ​Seahawks are returning to the Super Bowl for the first time since falling to New England in the championship game 11 years ago. The Patriots, considered underdogs in this matchup, are pursuing a record seventh Super Bowl title and their ​first since 2019.

    The Super Bowl kicks off on February 8 at 6:30 p.m. ET (2230 GMT).

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