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Suicide bomber kills 12 at mosque in Pakistan’s capital, police say
ISLAMABAD, Feb 6 (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed at least 12 people during Friday prayers in a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Pakistan’s capital city of Islamabad, two police officials […]
Former French minister Lang summoned over Epstein links, source says
PARIS, Feb 6 (Reuters) – Pressure rose on Friday on former French culture minister Jack Lang to resign as president of the Arab World Institute over his ties to late […]
Ukraine seeks to soften key condition for new IMF loan, Bloomberg News reports
Feb 6 (Reuters) – Ukraine is seeking to soften an unpopular tax bill demanded by the International Monetary Fund as a condition to unlock more than $8 billion under a […]
Top Russian general is shot and rushed to hospital in Moscow
MOSCOW, Feb 6 (Reuters) – A senior Russian military officer, Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, was rushed to hospital after being shot in Moscow on Friday, investigators said, in the latest of […]
More storms coming as Leonardo swells rivers, bursts aquifers in Spain and Portugal
GRAZALEMA, Spain, Feb 6 (Reuters) – Authorities in southern Spain have evacuated residential areas out of fear a major river could overflow and warned of landslides caused by bursting aquifers […]
Grieving parents protest at Swiss handling of autopsies for bar fire victims
(Corrects paragraph 7 to show the autopsies were after Switzerland released the bodies, not before) Read full story Date: 6 February, 2026 5:00 pm Source: thestar.com.my
Norway’s security service sees stepped-up Russian espionage in Arctic
OSLO, Feb 6 (Reuters) – Russia is expected to step up spying in Norway this year, focusing increasingly on the country’s Arctic mainland and the Svalbard archipelago, the Norwegian domestic […]
Exclusive-Scammers’ abandoned Cambodia compound exposes brutality and banality of fraud
O’SMACH, Cambodia, Feb 6 (Reuters) – In a Cambodian compound with rooms designed to look like Singapore and Australia police offices, papers were strewn across desks and floors: the detritus […]
Clashes intensify in remote east Congo, challenging US mediation
Feb 6 (Reuters) – Nurses at the general hospital in Fizi, a town ringed by steep highlands in eastern Congo’s South Kivu province, hurried the wounded soldier into surgery after […]
In Hasina’s hometown in Bangladesh, voters face an unfamiliar ballot
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 […]