• Greenland Crisis Boosted Danish Apps Designed to Identify and Help Boycott US Goods
  
  The makers of mobile apps designed to help shoppers identify and boycott American goods say they saw a surge of interest in Denmark and beyond after the recent flareup in tensions over U.S. President Donald Trump's designs on Greenland.The creator of the "Made O'Meter" app,...
• Portugal Chooses between a Moderate and a Populist in Runoff Presidential Election
  
  Centerleft Socialist candidate Ant nio JosSeguro is heavily favored to defeat hardright populist AndrVentura in Portugal's runoff presidential election Sunday in a vote that will test the depth of support for Ventura's brash style of politics.Recent opinion polls say Seguro...
• Ukraine Businesses Struggle to Cope as Russian Attacks Bring Power Cuts and Uncertainty
  
  It is predawn in the historic Podil district of the Ukraine capital, Kyiv, and warm light from the Spelta bakerybistro's window pierces the darkness outside. On a wooden surface dusted with flour, the baker Oleksandr Kutsenko skilfully divides and shapes soft, damp pieces...
• Kim Expected to Issue Major Policy Goals at North Korea Party Congress in Late February
  
  North Korea will convene a major political conference later this month, the country's state media said Sunday, where leader Kim Jong Un is expected to outline his domestic and foreign policies for the next five years. The ruling Workers' Party congress, which Kim previously...
• Thailand Votes in Early Election with 3 Main Parties Vying for Power
  
  Voters in Thailand head to the polls on Sunday for an early general election seen as a threeway race among competing visions of progressive, populist and oldfashioned patronage politics.The battle for support from 53 million registered voters comes against a backdrop of...
• Walid Phares to Newsmax: Benghazi Is 'Much Bigger Than What Most People Think'
  
  Walid Phares, appearing Saturday on Newsmax's "The Count," argued that what he called an Obama-era "collaboration" with the Muslim Brotherhood set conditions he says shaped U.S. decision-making around the Benghazi attack.
• Zelenskyy: Russia Proposing Economic Deals Worth $12T
  
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia and the U.S. are discussing bilateral economic agreements valued at roughly $12 trillion, including potential deals that would directly affect Ukraine, according to intelligence materials shown to him.
• Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi Hopes for Big Win as Polls Open in National Elections
  
  Polls opened Sunday in parliamentary elections that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi hopes will give her struggling party a big enough win to push through an ambitious conservative political agenda.Takaichi is hugely popular, but the ruling Liberal Democratic Party,...
• Sudan Drone Strike Kills 24, Including Children
  
  A drone attack by a notorious paramilitary group hit a vehicle carrying displaced families in central Sudan on Saturday, killing at least 24 people, including eight children, a doctors' group said, a day after a World Food Programme aid convoy was targeted.
• Greenland FM: US Talks Positive, Outcome Unclear
  
  Greenland's Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt said on Saturday that while it is positive that talks with the U.S. are ongoing, they are not yet where Greenland wants them to be, and it is too early to predict where they will lead.
• Olympics-Ice Hockey-US Women Crush Finland
  
  The U.S. pummeled Finland 5-0 for their second straight win at the Milano Cortina Games on Saturday, as arch-rivals Canada prepared to begin their title defense against Switzerland.
• Israel: Netanyahu to Meet Trump Feb. 11 in DC on Iran Talks
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to meet with President Donald Trump in Washington on Wednesday, Feb. 11, to discuss U.S. negotiations with Iran after Iranian and U.S. officials held indirect nuclear talks in Oman on Friday, according to Netanyahu's...
• Italian Police Fire Tear Gas as Protesters Clash Near Winter Olympics Hockey Venue
  
  Italian police fired tear gas and a water cannon at dozens of protesters who threw firecrackers and tried to access a highway near a Winter Olympics venue on Saturday.
• Israel Says Netanyahu Will Meet with Trump on Wednesday about Iran Talks
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Wednesday about the U.S. talks with Iran, his office said Saturday, as concerns remain high about possible regional conflict."The prime minister believes that all...
• Huckabee to Newsmax: Iran Talks Only Work If Tehran Gives Up Nuclear Weapons
  
  High-stakes U.S.-Iran talks in Oman are "at least good news" because they keep the door open to a peaceful outcome, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said on Newsmax Saturday.
• Tourists Stopped from Seeing The Last Supper, While Olympic VIPs Including Vance Visit
  
  Tourists to Milan during the Winter Olympics hoping to see Leonardo da Vinci's " The Last Supper" were in for an unwelcome surprise: Access to the masterpiece is closed to the public for 3 1/2 days. The painting, created between 1494 and 1498 by the Italian Renaissance...
• Trump Aims to Hold the First Meeting of His New Board of Peace in Washington This Month
  
  President Donald Trump plans to convene the first meeting of his Board of Peace this month in Washington to raise money for the reconstruction of Gaza.The meeting, proposed for Feb. 19, would include both world leaders who accepted Trump's invitation in January to join the...
• Haiti's Presidential Council Dissolves after Rocky Tenure as Unelected US-backed Ruler Remains
  
  Haiti's presidential council stepped down on Saturday after almost two years of tumultuous rule alongside a U.S.backed prime minister, who is expected to remain in power as the country prepares for the first general elections in a decade.Days before the ninemember council...
• Gunmen in Northern Nigeria Kill 3 Villagers and Kidnap 11, Including a Catholic Priest
  
  Gunmen killed three villagers and abducted 11 people, including a Catholic priest, during a predawn attack in northwest Nigeria on Saturday, church officials said.The gunmen attacked the priest's residence in the Kauru local government area of Kaduna state at about 3 a.m.,...
• Mariah Carey's Olympic Performance Raises Lip-Sync Questions
  
  The performance by pop star Mariah Carey at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics opening ceremony was the talk of the town - but it also raised a few questions.
• Cuba to Protect Essential Services as US Moves to Cut Oil Supply
  
  Cuba detailed a wide-ranging plan on Friday to protect essential services and ration fuel as the communist-run government dug in its heels in defiance of a U.S. effort to cut off oil supply to the Caribbean island.
• Hungarian PM Orban to Visit With Trump in D.C. in Two Weeks
  
  Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Saturday he will travel to the United States in two weeks for a meeting with President Donald Trump, aligning his visit with the inaugural leaders' gathering of the newly formed Board of Peace.
• Iran Says No Date Set for Next Round of US Talks
  
  Qatar-based Al Jazeera cited Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi as saying that no new date was currently set for the next round of nuclear talks with Washington, a day after the two sides held talks in Oman.
• Ukraine Backs Pope's Call for Olympic Truce
  
  Ukraine has backed a call for a ceasefire in the war with Russia during the Winter Olympics after Italy and Pope Leo urged world leaders to use the Milano Cortina games to further peace.
• Report: Russia to Interrogate Suspects in Attempted Killing
  
  Two suspects in the attempted assassination of top Russian military intelligence official Lt. General Vladimir Alexeyev "will soon be interrogated," the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported on Saturday, citing a source close to the investigation.

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