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#nytimes.com. Gunmen in Nigeria Kill More Than 160, Aid Official Says. Nigeria Attack Leaves More Than 160 Dead

#Feb.04.2026

#economist.com. Just a moment.... Donald Trump wants to end America’s half-century conflict with Iran

#Feb.04.2026

#nytimes.com. South African Party Leader Bows Out, Stirring Fears for Government’s Future. John Steenhuisen, South African Party Leader, to Step Down

#Feb.04.2026

#theguardian.com. How much did Starmer really know about Mandelson’s ties to Epstein?. No 10 is under huge pressure to reveal exactly how the former peer was vetted for his job as US ambassador

#Feb.04.2026

#aljazeera.com. Israeli strikes kill more than 20 in Gaza, shatter ‘ceasefire’ myth. Israeli strikes killed at least 23 Palestinians, many of them children, in widespread attacks on Gaza on Wednesday.

#Feb.04.2026

#wired.com. Notepad++ Users, You May Have Been Hacked by China. Suspected Chinese state-backed hackers hijacked the Notepadd++ update infrastructure to deliver backdoored version of the popular free source code editor and note-taking app for Windows.

#Feb.04.2026

#theguardian.com. US and Iran talks at risk of collapse after US rejects move to Oman. Talks were scheduled in Turkey with Arab states present, but Iran requests move amid attempts to limit agenda

#Feb.04.2026

#bbc.com. Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe latest former African leader to be named in Epstein files. Epstein considered approaching Mugabe about a new currency in 2015 - the latest batch of files show.

#Feb.04.2026

#theguardian.com. Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn. Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information

#Feb.04.2026

#theguardian.com. Florida bill seeks to ban use of ‘West Bank’ in schools and state agencies. The bill would mandate use of the biblical term ‘Judea and Samaria’ after a similar effort passed in Arkansas

#Feb.04.2026

#aljazeera.com. Hungary jails German activist for eight years over far-right rally attacks. Maja T was part of a group that attacked participants at Budapest's 'Day of Honour', a major neo-Nazi event.

#Feb.04.2026

#theguardian.com. Angel that looked like Giorgia Meloni removed from Rome church fresco. Vatican appears to have ordered removal of restored work, which artist confessed he had made to resemble PM

#Feb.04.2026

#theguardian.com. DWP chief accused of overseeing ‘culture of complacency’ that led to carer’s allowance scandal. Commons committee chair says DWP repeatedly failed to prioritise the vulnerable and was slow to fix errors

#Feb.04.2026

#theguardian.com. Tesco sorry for putting up Welsh bilingual signs in Cornwall. Campaigners say they appreciate attempt to use Cornish but mistake points to need for more access to language

#Feb.04.2026

#aljazeera.com. Russia’s Putin holds video call with China’s Xi. The two leaders discussed maintaining their growing ties amid international instability.

#Feb.04.2026

#aljazeera.com. Russia sentences stand-up comic to more than five years over war joke. Artemy Ostanin sentenced to more than five years in a penal colony after joking about a 'legless' war veteran.

#Feb.04.2026

#wired.com. A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems. Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.

#Feb.04.2026

#theguardian.com. EU deal on Ukraine loan could boost UK if it agrees to help pay costs. British firms could get more opportunities to supply defence equipment to Kyiv if agreement can be reached

#Feb.04.2026

#theguardian.com. Father of toddler abused by nursery worker ‘frustrated’ by deportation. Polish national Roksana Lecka, sentenced to eight years in prison for child cruelty, will be deported on Thursday

#Feb.04.2026

#aljazeera.com. US announces proposed critical mineral trading bloc. The aim of the group is to challenge China’s stronghold on the globe’s rare earth mining.

#Feb.04.2026

#aljazeera.com. Gaza on the agenda as Turkiye’s Erdogan meets Egypt’s el-Sisi in Cairo. The Turkish president said humanitarian tragedy continues in the enclave amid a fresh wave of deadly Israeli attacks.

#Feb.04.2026

#bbc.com. How plans for Trump International hotel in Belgrade unravelled. The project would have built on the ruins of the defence ministry bombed by Nato back in 1999.

#Feb.04.2026

#theguardian.com. Steve Bannon calls for immigration agents at polling sites during midterms. Ex-Trump adviser adds to elections officials’ concern about potential interference from Trump administration in voting