🇷🇺 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 🇦🇪 ⚡️ — NEW: Kremlin says it won’t stop fighting until Kyiv makes the right “decisions” as first day of US‑brokered trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi ends

🔴 President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son‑in‑law Jared Kushner led the US delegation; Ukraine was represented by Rustem Umerov and Russia by military intelligence chief Igor Kostyukov.

🔴 Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russian troops will continue to fight until Kyiv makes the right “decisions”; Umerov called the first day “substantive and productive” and said talks focused on “concrete steps and practical solutions”.

🔴 Talks coincided with continued Russian attacks: Moscow fired 105 drones overnight and a record number of ballistic missiles the previous night; a cluster‑munition strike in Druzhkivka killed at least seven and injured eight.

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🇺🇸 🇮🇩 🇰🇷 🇯🇵 ⚡️ — REPORT: Boeing says its "partnership with Indonesia" over F-15EX is no longer an active campaign, while it advances F-15 modernization work for South Korea and Japan.

🔴 Bernd Peters, vice president of business development and strategy for Boeing’s defense division, said the Indonesia F-15EX MoU from Aug. 2023 produced no contract and the campaign is dead; Boeing will continue supporting Apaches and WaveGliders in Indonesia.

🔴 Boeing received a $2.8 billion U.S. DoD contract to upgrade South Korea’s 59 F-15K fighters in St. Louis, work due to finish by end of 2037; Turbo Sjogren said upgrades will address obsolescence and cockpit improvements.

🔴 Boeing is helping Japan upgrade F-15J jets with AN/APG-82(V)1 AESA radars, new mission computers and BAE Systems AN/ALQ-250 EPAWSS, describing the effort as a total transformation to contemporary F-15 capability.

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🇺🇸 — NEW: President Donald Trump admits "we can use a little bit of a softer touch" on immigration after Minneapolis crackdown that saw two U.S. citizens shot dead by federal agents

🔴 Trump said "maybe we could use a little bit of a softer touch" but added "you still have to be tough" and that "we are dealing with really hard criminals."

🔴 Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both 37, were killed in separate shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents in Minnesota; the administration has framed both shootings as self‑defense.

🔴 DHS reports thousands of arrests in Minnesota; detainees have described denial of food and medical care, and border czar Tom Homan announced 700 federal agents will be pulled from Minnesota, leaving about 2,000 officers.

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🇵🇸 🇸🇾 ⚡️ — The Palestinian Embassy in Syria: Entry conditions for Palestinian passport holders into Syria have been expanded without the need for prior approval.

🔴 Includes Palestinians with a valid foreign residency

🔴 Those married to a Syrian citizen or a Palestinian Syrian

🔴 Palestinians who have previously entered Syrian territories

🔴 Palestinians entering Syria for the first time still require prior approval

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🇮🇱 🇺🇸 🇵🇸 ⚡️ — Haaretz reports from a knowledgeable source: The United States is pressuring Israel to expand the operations of the Rafah crossing to include the transport of goods and aid, not just the passage of a few pedestrians.

🔴 The company that secured American aid centers for Gaza, GHF, is in talks to allow it to secure the Rafah crossing.

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🇮🇱 ❌ 🇵🇸 ❗️ — A Palestinian was martyred by Israeli occupation forces in the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 🇷🇺 ⚡️ — Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs:

"The escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran could set the Middle East ablaze. Iran is our ally, and we are acutely aware of the ongoing developments concerning them."

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🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇲🇽 🇻🇪 — BREAKING: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of a humanitarian “collapse” in Cuba as the United States moved to block oil from reaching the island and threatened tariffs on nations that step in.

🔴 Severe fuel shortage is causing hours-long blackouts in Havana and driving up food and transport prices, the UN warned through spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

🔴 The US has claimed control of Venezuelan oil after a raid on Nicolas Maduro, President Donald Trump vowed to starve Cuba of oil and threatened tariffs on suppliers; Mexico supplies about 44% of Cuba’s oil and is seeking diplomatic agreements while preparing humanitarian aid.

🔴 Kpler data cited by the Financial Times says Cuba has about 15–20 days of oil at current demand; Cuba and the US report continued communications but no formal “dialogue.”

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🇮🇱 ❌ 🇵🇸 ⚠️ — Jerusalem: The occupation authorities have confiscated 280 dunams of land from four Palestinian towns to build a road.

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🇳🇬 🇧🇯 ⚡️ — NEW: Armed extremists killed at least 162 people in attacks on the villages of Woro and Nuku in Kwara state, Mohammed Omar Bio, a member of parliament representing the area, says

🔴 The attacks were carried out by the Lakurawa, an armed group affiliated with the Islamic State group; Amnesty International said gunmen killed over 170 people, razed homes and looted shops and had been sending "warning" letters to the villagers for more than five months

🔴 Ayodeji Emmanuel Babaomo, the Red Cross secretary in Kwara state, said teams cannot reach the remote communities — about eight hours from the state capital and near Nigeria's border with Benin; footage shows bodies, some with hands tied, and burning houses

🔴 State governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq described the attack as a "cowardly expression of frustration by terrorist cells"; separate violence this week killed at least 13 in Doma, Katsina, and Boko Haram extremists killed at least 36 elsewhere last week

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🇮🇱 ❌ 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 ⚡️ — Enemy media: Israel temporarily abandons victory in Gaza and does not attack the growing strength of Hamas in the region. Hamas is arming, growing stronger, and becoming wealthier while Israel watches from the sidelines, taking action only if a violation occurs.

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🚁 — WATCH: BREAKING - A police helicopter crashed during a shootout in Flagstaff, Arizona.

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🇨🇳 ⚡️ — Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

"We will not participate in negotiations on nuclear arms reduction."

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🇵🇸 ❗️ — A young man has died from injuries sustained months ago in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.

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🇵🇸 💥 — The martyrdom of former prisoner Basel Al-Haimoni from Hebron, who was exiled to the Gaza Strip in the 2011 "Wafa al-Ahrar" exchange deal, following an airstrike that targeted him yesterday.

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 — REPORT: Air defenses shot down 95 Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs over Russian regions overnight, the Defense Ministry said.

🔴 36 downed over the Krasnodar Region, 27 over the Rostov Region, 21 over the Azov Sea, eight over the Belgorod Region, two over Crimea, and one over the Volgograd Region.

🔴 Governor Yury Slyusar said the attack was repelled in Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog, Bataysk, Novoshakhtinsk and the Azov district; he later added Neklinovsky, Oktyabrsky, Kamensky, Krasnosulsky, Zernogradsky districts, Kamensk-Shakhtinsky and Shakhty.

🔴 In Bataysk a truck driver was injured by falling UAV debris and hospitalized in moderately severe condition; five cars and a warehouse were damaged there and a private house facade and windows were damaged in Novoshakhtinsk — information is being clarified.

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🇩🇪 ⚡️ — Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany has now transitioned to 24-hour operations amid increased deployments in the Middle East.

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🇮🇷 ⚡️ — The visible effects of the excavation debris in the new tunnels at the missile site in Qom, Iran, now extend over an area exceeding 40,000 square meters.

🔴 Iran has dug new extensive tunnels at a missile site near Qom, with excavation work continuing for long distances over recent months, surpassing what was expected or announced.

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🇮🇷 🚀 — A Khorramshahr missile was spotted during the latest visit of the commander of the Aerospace Force of the Revolutionary Guard this morning.

🔴 The design of the Iranian ballistic missile is likely derived from the North Korean "Hwasong-10" missile, which is capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

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🇺🇸 🇷🇺 🇸🇪 🇵🇱 — BREAKING: New START, the 14-year U.S.-Russia arms-control treaty, expired Feb. 5, prompting U.S. lawmakers and former officials to warn of renewed nuclear proliferation and an arms race.

🔴 Sen. Jack Reed said allies in Europe, Japan, and South Korea show renewed interest in “their own nuclear-deterrence systems,” and Timothy Morrison warned the risk of proliferation “cannot be understated.”

🔴 Rose Gottemoeller urged the White House to renew New START for one year; the treaty capped deployed strategic forces at 1,550 warheads and 700 delivery systems but did not cover unmanned submarines, hypersonics, new tactical/lower-yield weapons, or include China.

🔴 Sweden has opened preliminary talks with France and the U.K. on potential nuclear collaboration and Poland is exploring nuclear options amid strained U.S.-Europe ties, including President Trump’s threats to seize NATO allies’ territory.

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