Portal:Current events/2026 February 10

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Five Palestinians are killed by Israeli strikes and gunfire on the Gaza Strip. (RTÉ News)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Two people are killed in a Russian airstrike on Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent)
• Boko Haram insurgency, Nigeria–United States relations
  • A United States military official confirms that the U.S. will deploy 200 soldiers to Nigeria to help train the Nigerian military and provide logistical support against Boko Haram and other Islamic terrorist groups. (AA)
• Syrian conflict
  • Four people are killed and eight others are wounded after their vehicle strikes a land mine in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria. In a separate incident, a tractor triggers a land mine in the village of Taanah, Aleppo Governorate, killing one person. (MENA via The New Arab)

Arts and culture

• Ireland launches a permanent basic-income programme for the arts that pays 2,000 creative workers €325 (US$387) per week for three years, following a government trial that began in 2022, and which culture minister Patrick O'Donovan describes as the first permanent scheme of its kind worldwide. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Connections of Jeffrey Epstein
  • Canadian pensions funder La Caisse suspends all future ventures with multinational logistics company DP World following the disclosure by the U.S. Department of Justice that its CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem had maintained close ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. (The Gazette)
• United States embargo against Cuba, Cuba–Mexico relations, Canada–Mexico relations, United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
  • Mexico confirms it has suspended all shipments of fuel to Cuba to avoid punitive tariffs by the United States which is enforcing an oil blockade of the island, while vowing to continue shipments of humanitarian aid. (AA)
  • Canadian airlines Air Transat and WestJet suspend all flights to Cuba amid a shortage of fuel for commercial aviation, and say efforts are underway to return Canadians stranded on the island. (Bloomberg)

Disasters and accidents

• Six people are killed after a car collided with a truck in Dausa district, India. (PTI via The Hindu)
• A Pemex-owned pipeline explodes in Oaxaca, Mexico, killing three people and injuring six others. (Reuters)
• A Starsky Aviation Fokker 50 aircraft veers off a runway at Aden Adde International Airport to a nearby beach in Mogadishu, Somalia, due to a technical error. All 55 people on board survive. (AP) (BBC News)

International relations

• Azerbaijan–United States relations
  • Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev and United States vice president JD Vance sign a strategic partnership agreement in Baku covering economic and security cooperation. (AFP via France 24)
• Palau–United States relations
  • The United States Department of State bans Palauan senate president Hokkons Baules and his family from entering the country due to alleged corruption. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2026 Tumbler Ridge shooting
  • Nine people are killed, including the suspect, in a school shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada. (CBC News) (The Jerusalem Post)
• Corruption in Malaysia
  • The Malaysian federal court reinstates the bribery conviction and six-year prison sentence of former Federal Land Development Authority chairperson Mohd Isa Abdul Samad after overturning a 2024 acquittal on nine corruption counts linked to a hotel purchase. (Reuters)
• Kidnappings in Colombia
  • Colombian senator Aida Quilcué and her two bodyguards are abducted from their car by unidentified assailants while traveling in Cauca Department. Security forces later locate the empty car, and Quilcué and her escorts are released unharmed following government warnings. (AFP via Philippine Daily Inquirer)
• Recognition of same-sex unions in the Philippines
  • The Philippine supreme court rules that same-sex partners may qualify as co-owners of property under the Family Code when both contribute to its acquisition, reversing lower-court decisions in a dispute between two former partners in Metro Manila. (BBC News)
• War on drugs
  • Europol says it has dismantled a drug trafficking network that was smuggling cocaine into Iceland, resulting in the arrests of 24 people. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Corruption in Albania
  • Protesters clash with riot police in Tirana, Albania, amid protests over corruption allegations involving deputy prime minister Belinda Balluku. At least sixteen people are injured while police say thirteen people have been arrested. (AP)
• Elections in Zimbabwe
  • Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa's cabinet approves draft constitutional amendments that extend presidential term limits from five to seven years and replace direct presidential elections with parliamentary selection, which would allow Mnangagwa to remain in office until 2030 if adopted by parliament. (Reuters)
• Portuguese home minister Maria Lúcia Amaral resigns after criticism over the government's response to Storm Kristin and other storms. (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Internet censorship in Russia, Censorship of Telegram
  • The Russian Roskomnadzor restricts access to the instant messaging service Telegram, citing alleged failures to remove prohibited material and protect personal data, and triggers nationwide service disruptions reported by users. (CNN)