Feb 9 (Reuters) - Russian overnight drone attacks killed at least three people, including a mother and her 10-year-old son in Ukraine's east and south, regional officials and prosecutors said on Monday. Read full story

TOKYO, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is set to be pressed on her promised tax cuts and spending plans on Monday after a historic election win was seen heightening the chances of her delivering on stimulus measures that have rattled financial markets. Read full story

SEOUL, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A South Korean Army AH-1S Cobra attack helicopter crashed on Monday during a training flight in the northern county of Gapyeong, killing both crew members on board, the country's military said. Read full story

Feb 8 (Reuters) - A prominent Venezuelan opposition politician was kidnapped in Caracas on Sunday night just hours after his release from jail, according to his son and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado, casting uncertainty over government vows to free political prisoners. Read full story

Feb 9 (Reuters) - A white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in New Zealand seven years ago said on Monday that he was irrational when he pleaded guilty, local media reported, as he sought to overturn his conviction in a New Zealand court. Read full story

BANGKOK, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Thailand faced a realignment of conservative politics on Monday after Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul's Bhumjaithai Party won a stronger-than-expected general election victory, with coalition talks expected to start in the coming days. Read full story

Feb 8 (Reuters) - Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell intends to refuse to answer questions at a Monday deposition before the House's Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, according to a Sunday letter from U.S. Representative Ro Khanna. Read full story

MILAN, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) --The United States successfully defended its title in the figure skating team event at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics on Sunday, with Japan finishing a close second and host Italy taking bronze. Read full story

MEXICO CITY, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Nicaragua has ended visafree entry for Cuban citizens effective Sunday, ending a policy that allowed thousands of Cubans to transit the Central American country in recent years on their journey north to the United States. Read full story

MOSCOW, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Sunday that the man suspected of shooting top Russian military intelligence officer Vladimir Alexeyev in Moscow has been detained in Dubai and handed over to Russia. Read full story

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 8 (Reuters) - South Africa will withdraw its troops from the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, President Cyril Ramaphosa's office said in a statement late on Saturday. Read full story

Feb 7 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he met with President of Honduras , Nasry Asfura, at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach. Read full story

SEOUL, Feb 8 (Reuters) - North Korea will convene the 9th Congress in late February in Pyongyang, state media KCNA reported on Sunday, without elaborating on the date. Read full story

BANGKOK, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Polls opened in Thailand on Sunday in a general election defined by a three-way battle between the country's conservative, progressive and populist camps, with no single party expected to secure a clear majority, prolonging the spectre of political instability. Read full story

SYDNEY, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Australia's conservative opposition coalition reunited on Sunday after the junior partner National Party severed ties last month with the Liberal Party over its decision to back government hate speech laws drafted in the wake of the Bondi massacre. Read full story

WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Washington Post publisher and CEO Will Lewis is leaving the newspaper, it announced on Saturday after carrying out widespread layoffs this week. Read full story

LIVIGNO, Italy, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Defending Olympic champion Su Yiming delivered China's first medal of the Milan-Cortina Winter Games on Saturday, claiming bronze in a fiercely contested men's snowboard big air final defined by soaring difficulty. Read full story

ISTANBUL, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- The 3rd China-Trkiye Business Conference was held in Istanbul on Saturday, bringing together more than 300 representatives from government bodies, business associations and enterprises from both countries to explore new drivers of trade growth and cooperation. Read full story

NEW YORK: Former Goldman Sachs Group Incbanker Tim Leissner reported to federal prison to begin serving a two-year sentence for one of the largest financial frauds in history. Read full story

Feb 7 (Reuters) - Airspace in Southeastern Poland has been closed again in recent hours due to "unplanned military activity", FlightRadar24 said on Saturday. Read full story

High Court judges to hand down penalties on 78-year-old defendant at 10am, according to judiciary website. Read full story

WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The United States will make an initial payment towards the billions of dollars it owes to the United Nations in a matter of weeks, the U.S. ambassador to the world body told Reuters on Friday, while stressing the need for the U.N. to continue reforms. Read full story

SYDNEY, Feb 7 (Reuters) - A light plane crashed into the ocean off South Australia on Friday killing the three men on board, police said. Read full story

Feb 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would re-prioritize the customer list for U.S. weapons in favor of countries with higher defense spending and strategic importance in their region, the White House said on Friday. Read full story

WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that may impose a 25% tariff on countries that do business with Iran. Read full story

Feb 6 (Reuters) - The head of Venezuela's National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez, said on Friday that all prisoners expected to be granted clemency by a pending amnesty law could walk free within a week. Read full story

GOPALGANJ, Bangladesh, Feb 6 (Reuters) - For the first time in decades, the image that once defined the hometown of Bangladesh's ousted premier Sheikh Hasina during elections, her Awami League party's "boat" symbol, is absent. Read full story

WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - A January 6, 2021, rioter, who was pardoned by President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty to a harassment charge after being accused of threatening to kill U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, prosecutors said on Thursday. Read full story

JAKARTA, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Indonesia and Australia signed a security treaty on Friday that commits them to consult each other if either country is threatened, President Prabowo Subianto said after a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Jakarta. Read full story

Feb 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said it killed two people in a strike on a suspected drug vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Thursday. Read full story

BANGKOK, Feb 6 (Reuters) - When Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul dissolved parliament on Dec. 12, he did so hoping a surge of nationalism fuelled by last year's deadly border clashes with Cambodia would help him consolidate power in a general election. Read full story

Feb 6 (Reuters) - Nighttime shelling by Ukraine inflicted "serious damage" in the Russian city of Belgorod, near the border, the region's governor said early on Friday. Read full story

LONDON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - NATO defence ministers will likely discuss measures to bolster the security of Greenland in a meeting next week, British defence minister John Healey said, after U.S. President Donald Trump nearly upended the alliance over his desire to acquire it. Read full story

MEXICO CITY, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Mexican officials are evaluating how to send fuel to Cuba to help meet basic needs such as electricity and transportation without triggering reprisals from Washington, which has threatened tariffs against countries supplying fuel to the Caribbean island, four sources familiar with the matter said. Read full story

WASHINGTON/HAVANA, Feb 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. will provide an extra $6 million in humanitarian aid to Cuba, the top State Department aid official said on Thursday, even as Washington has stepped up efforts to block oil supplies to the Caribbean island nation, causing crippling shortages. Read full story

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Canada and Britain both extended their unbeaten runs on Thursday, one day ahead of the official opening of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games. Read full story

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. Read full story

HANOI, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Vietnam is willing to increase purchases of U.S. goods, especially machinery and hightech products, its trade minister said on Wednesday, as the Southeast Asian nation began a sixth round of tariff negotiations in Washington this week. Read full story

QUETTA, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Pakistan's security forces used drones and helicopters to wrest control of a southwestern town from separatist insurgents after a three-day battle, police said on Wednesday, as the death toll in the weekend's violence rose to 58. Read full story

BANGKOK, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Thailand will hold ageneral election on February 8, in a three-way contest of major parties to decide the leader of the Southeast Asian nation over the next four years. Read full story