* Laura Fernandez, the candidate from the ruling Sovereign People Party, on Sunday celebrated her victory in the Costa Rican presidential election after securing 48.3 percent of the vote.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that if Tehran fails to strike a nuclear deal with Washington, "we will find out" whether Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was right to warn that a U.S. attack could ignite a regional war.
* Iraq's parliament on Sunday postponed a session to elect the country's next president following a similar decision on Tuesday, due to a persistent deadlock between the two main Kurdish parties.
* At least 15 people were killed and seven others injured in a Russian attack on a bus carrying mine workers in central Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region on Sunday, Ukraine's private energy company DTEK said.
* Lebanon's health ministry on Sunday condemned Israeli "threats" against hospitals in the south of the country, calling them a grave violation of international humanitarian law.
* The office of Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday released a list naming 2,986 people killed during recent unrest in the country.
* Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan's King Abdullah II discussed in Cairo on Sunday the developments in the Gaza Strip and the region.
* Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz held a meeting with military chief Eyal Zamir on Sunday to assess the military's "operational readiness" following the latter's urgent defense talks in Washington.
* Violent clashes broke out overnight Friday to early Saturday in the western Libyan city of Zawiya between forces affiliated with the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity, local media reported, resulting in a shift of control between rival armed factions aligned with the UN-backed government.
* "Technical issues" are preventing members of Gaza's newly formed administrative committee from entering the strip through the Rafah crossing on Monday, a committee member said Sunday.
* The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies, known as OPEC+, decided on Sunday to continue pausing oil output increases in March, OPEC said in a statement.
* Remittances from overseas Bangladeshis in the July-January period of the current fiscal year 2025-2026 totaled nearly 20 billion USD, the central bank reported Sunday. According to the Bangladesh Bank data, the remittances increased by 21.8 percent year on year to 19.436 billion dollars from July 2025 to January 2026.
* Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro on Sunday announced a 2.5 billion euros (2.98 billion USD) support package for families and businesses after Storm Kristin left at least eight dead and a trail of destruction across the country, extending a national state of calamity.
* Afghanistan launched its first polio vaccination campaign of 2026 on Monday, aiming to protect over 7.3 million children under 5 years old against poliovirus, the Ministry of Public Health reported.
