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Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 - London, United Kingdom – The United Kingdom's ban on Palestine Action has "backfired", its cofounder said, after the High Court ruled that proscribing the group as a "terror" organisation was unlawful. Critics from the United Nations human rights chief to the Irish author Sally Rooney decried the UK's ban last June as an illiberal overreach, since it put Palestine Action on par with ISIL (ISIS), al-Qaeda and ...

Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 - BNP claims victory in landmark Bangladesh election The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has claimed victory in the country's first election since a student-led uprising that ousted longtime leader Sheikh Hasina in 2024. Unofficial results confirmed by election officials to Al Jazeera on Friday showed the BNP winning 209 seats, easily crossing the 151-seat threshold needed for a majority in parliament. Its leader, ...

Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 - Donald Trump has justified the US's decision to deploy another aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, to the Middle East, declaring "we'll need it" if a deal isn't struck with Iran. Donald Trump says regime change in Iran "would be the best thing that could happen" as a second US aircraft carrier is deployed to the Middle East. The US president made the remarks after visiting troops at Fort Bragg in North ...

Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 - TOKYO — Japanese authorities have seized a Chinese fishing boat and arrested its captain for allegedly fleeing inspection in its exclusive economic zone, an incident that could further inflame tensions between Asia's top two economies. The captain, a 47-year-old Chinese national, is accused of ignoring orders to stop for an on-board inspection on Thursday in waters off southwest Nagasaki prefecture, Japan's ...

Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said regime change would be the best outcome for Iran, ratcheting up pressure on the Islamic Republic in negotiations over its nuclear program as he builds up the U.S. military presence in the region. "It seems like that would be the best thing that could happen," Trump told reporters Friday following an event at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Yet the president sidestepped a ...