The Petersburg Post

Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 - Temporary Exclusion Orders allow the home affairs minister to stop a person entering for up to two years, but there is a high bar for the powers Home affairs minister Tony Burke is "taking advice" from security agencies on whether Australian women and children in a Syrian detention camp should be temporarily banned from returning, but it is unclear how many in the cohort such an order would apply to. On Monday ...

Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 - Iran's supreme leader warned on Tuesday that U.S. attempts to depose his government would fail, as Washington and Tehran held indirect talks in Geneva on their long-running nuclear dispute amid a U.S. military buildup in the Middle East . The U.S., which joined Israel in bombing Iran's nuclear facilities in June, has deployed a battle force to the region and U.S. President Donald Trump has said "regime change" in ...

Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 - – Delegations from Moscow and Kyiv met in Geneva on Tuesday for another round of , a week before the fourth anniversary of of its neighbor. However, expectations for any breakthroughs in the scheduled two days of talks in Switzerland were low, with neither side apparently ready to budge from its positions on key territorial issues and future security guarantees, despite the United States setting a for a ...

Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 - TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel will begin a contentious land regulation process in a large part of the occupied West Bank, which could result in Israel gaining control over wide swaths of the area for future development, according to a government decision on Sunday. It paves the way for the resumption of "settlement of land title" processes, which had been frozen in the West Bank since the Mideast War in 1967. It ...