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The Paris prosecutor’s office on Saturday announced it was setting up a special team to analyse files relating to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and investigate suspected crimes involving French nationals. As part of that initiative, they will be reopening their files on the late Jean-Luc Brunel, a former French modelling agency executive.With Epstein’s known...

US conducts strikes on more than 30 ISIS targets in Syria: Military-

15 Feb 2026

The US military said Saturday that its forces had struck more than 30 ISIS group targets in Syria this month, maintaining pressure on the extremists after a deadly attack on US troops last year. The strikes also came as the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) in recent weeks transferred thousands of IS detainees from Syria...

Trump, Netanyahu agreed US should press Iran to cut oil sales to China, Axios reports

China accounts for more than 80% of Iran’s oil exports. Any reduction in ⁠that trade would mean lower oil revenue for Iran. U.S. ⁠and Iranian diplomats held nuclear talks through Omani mediators last week in an effort to revive diplomacy, after the U.S. president positioned a naval flotilla in the region as the ⁠American military...

Burglars ransack safe-deposit boxes in German bank heist-

Police said they had not identified the perpetrators or established what was stolen. Emergency workers found an unknown liquid on the doors of the bank but said it did not pose a health risk.Live Burglars ransack safe-deposit boxes in German bank heist Police said they had not identified the perpetrators or established what was stolen....

Trump warns Iran of ‘very traumatic’ outcome if no nuclear deal.

US President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room at the White House in Washington, DC, February 11, 2026. (Reuters)US President Donald Trump. (Reuters)Trump warns Iran of ‘very traumatic’ outcome if no nuclear dealUnited States Of AmericaIranAl Arabiya EnglishPublished: 12 February ,2026: 11:12 PM GSTUpdated: 13 February ,2026: 12:13 AM GST4 minreadUS President Donald Trump...

About 200,000 join Iran demonstration in Munich: police-

MUNICH: About 200,000 people joined a demonstration against the Iranian government in Munich on Saturday (Feb 14), police said, as world leaders gathered nearby for a security conference. The pro-monarchist protesters rallied on the German city’s Theresienwiese fairgrounds, denouncing the leadership of Iran’s Islamic Republic following the deadly repression of nationwide protests in January.Human rights...

Zelensky labels Putin a ‘slave to war’

Munich (Germany) (AFP) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced Russia’s Vladimir Putin as a “slave to war” in a speech to the Munich Security Conference Saturday, adding that Russia’s attacks had damaged every power plant in the country. “There is not a single power plant left in Ukraine that has not been damaged by Russian attacks,”...

5 European countries say Russia ‘poisoned’ Putin critic Navalny in prison with ‘rare toxin’ –

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny reportedly died in prison after being poisoned with a deadly toxin found in Ecuadorian dart frogs, according to claims from the UK and other allies. The “barbaric” act – using a neurotoxin that is classed as a chemical weapon – could only have been carried out by Vladimir Putin’s government,...

France’s largest rape trial, Gisèle Pelicot, the woman at the centre of France’s largest rape trial, has told BBC Newsnight she was “crushed by horror” on discovering that, for years, her husband had repeatedly drugged her unconscious and invited dozens of men to rape her.