* A shooting incident with an explosion occurred in Bannang Sata District, southern Thailand's Yala province on Sunday, injuring one election security guard, according to Thai media reports. Thailand held an election for the new House of Representatives from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. local time on Sunday.
* Portuguese voters return to the polls on Sunday for the second round of the presidential elections, the first such runoff in roughly four decades, in a contest between the center-left and the far-right.
* China's ratio of total social logistics costs to gross domestic product (GDP) fell to 13.9 percent in 2025, dropping below the 14 percent threshold for the first time, the country's top economic planner said on Saturday. The reading was 0.8 percentage points lower than the level at the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020), according to the National Development and Reform Commission.
* Russian forces have carried out a large-scale strike on Ukrainian military facilities, using Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, Russia's defense ministry said Saturday. Ukrainian Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal confirmed that Russia launched a major attack on the country's energy infrastructure, the second such strike on Ukraine's energy network in less than a week.
* Greenlandic Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt and Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said Saturday that ongoing negotiations with the United States are "still not where we want to be," signaling that a final agreement remains distant.
* The White House is planning a leaders' meeting for the Board of Peace on Feb. 19, U.S. media outlet Axios reported Saturday. The meeting is planned to be held at the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the Donald Trump administration began reaching out to dozens of countries on Friday to invite their leaders, Axios reported.
* Italy "cannot participate" in the U.S.-proposed Board of Peace as its charter conflicts with Italy's Constitution, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Saturday.
* Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday described the recent nuclear talks between his country and the United States as "a step forward."
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Saturday that he will travel to Washington on Wednesday to discuss the Iran-U.S. talks with U.S. President Donald Trump. The two will discuss "the negotiations with Iran," Netanyahu's office said in a statement, adding that Netanyahu "believes that any talks must include restrictions on ballistic missiles and an end to support for the Iranian axis."
* South Africa has decided to withdraw its troop contribution from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), the South African Presidency said in a statement on Sunday.
* Egypt on Sunday strongly condemned repeated attacks targeting humanitarian aid convoys, medical facilities, and displaced civilians in Sudan, describing them as a serious violation of international humanitarian law.
* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday met with Jordan's King Abdullah II in Istanbul amid heightened tensions in the Middle East. The two leaders held a closed-door meeting, followed by talks between their respective delegations, at the working office of the Turkish presidency.
* Two Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli army fire in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian medical sources. Sources at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City told Xinhua that one Palestinian was killed and another seriously wounded by Israeli artillery shelling in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip.
* The Guinean government and the European Union (EU) intend to strengthen their cooperation through concrete actions to curb the irregular migration of young Guineans to Europe, according to official sources.
* Israel's flagship airline El Al announced on Sunday it will launch direct flights from Tel Aviv to the Asian capitals Manila, Seoul, and Hanoi, with three weekly flights to each destination.
* The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Saturday urged international actors to pressure Israel to allow an independent Palestinian administrative committee to operate in the Gaza Strip.
* A firefighter from the Campo Maior fire brigade died on Saturday during a patrol, reconnaissance and surveillance operation following severe weather and storm, according to Portugal's National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority (ANEPC). With this death, the number of fatalities linked to the storm that has ravaged mainland Portugal has risen to 14.
* Multiple avalanches struck the northern Italian Alps on Saturday, leaving four people dead and several others injured, local media reported.
