* United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said developed nations must deliver on their commitments and finance developing countries with 1.3 trillion USD a year by 2035 to deal with climate adaptation.
* Burundi on Saturday officially assumed the chairmanship of the African Union (AU) for 2026 during the 39th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the AU in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
* Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban emphasized national sovereignty on Saturday and criticized what he described as foreign political influence, while outlining his government's economic agenda ahead of upcoming general elections.
* Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump's desire to obtain Greenland has not changed. According to media reports, a U.S.-Denmark-Greenland working group has been established to address U.S. "security concerns" in the Arctic.
* Britain will deploy a carrier strike group to the North Atlantic and the High North this year, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday.
* United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Saturday that Africa is navigating some of the world's "hardest challenges" with determination, creativity and resilience.
* Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Saturday condemned Europe's hostile approach toward Tehran, saying that Europe, once a "key interlocutor" in nuclear talks, has been replaced by Iran's "effective and helpful" friends in West Asia.
* Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty on Saturday spoke with his Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud over phone to discuss regional developments and de-escalation efforts.
* The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Saturday that its forces killed a Palestinian militant in northern Gaza. The troops identified and subsequently killed a militant who crossed the Yellow Line, which marks Israeli-controlled areas under the ceasefire, approaching them and posing an immediate threat, the IDF said in a statement.
* SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft carrying four astronauts for NASA's Crew-12 mission autonomously docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday. The spacecraft lifted off at 5:15 a.m. Eastern Time Friday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in the U.S. state of Florida. It docked with the space-facing port of ISS' Harmony module at about 3:15 p.m. Eastern Time Saturday.
* One person has died and three others have been hospitalized following three separate stabbing incidents in western Sydney on Sunday. Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) said in a statement that emergency services were called to reports of a stabbing at a residence in Lethbridge Park, about 40 km west of central Sydney, shortly before 2 p.m. local time on Sunday.
* African leaders issued an urgent call to action on Saturday as progress toward eliminating malaria on the continent has "stalled," with Africa accounting for 96 percent of global cases.
* Zambia has suspended all livestock import permits from South Africa following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in that country, a Zambian official said Saturday.
* A prolonged snowstorm on Friday left Latvia covered in the deepest snow since spring 2013, the Baltic country's meteorology service reported Saturday. The thickest snow cover, measuring 62 centimeters, was recorded at the weather station of the Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Center in Dagda, southeastern Latvia.
* Two people have been killed and 13 others injured in Russia since the beginning of 2026 due to falling snow and ice from rooftops, Russia's emergencies ministry said Saturday. Nationwide, 44 cases of roof collapses caused by excessive snow load have been recorded as of Feb. 13, the ministry said.
* A 30-year-old man from southwest Cambodia's Kampot province had been confirmed positive for H5N1 human avian influenza, becoming the first case of this year, the Ministry of Health said in a statement on Saturday.
* At least 11 people were killed and 10 others injured after a passenger coach collided with a trailer on the National Highway in Pakistan's southern Sindh province early Sunday, rescue officials said.
