US News
- Missouri sent letters to 46,000 residents demanding the repay money the state said it over-paid in unemployment. [Link]
- Ohio police arrested a mother of two for leaving her ten and two year old children home alone while she was at work. [Link]
- Biden has removed the petitioning system from the White House website. [Link]
- A newly-released James Comey email from January 12, 2017 shows the FBI Director knew he could not prove any of the Steele Dossier information was true. [Link]
- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says she wants a 9/11-style commission into the Capitol riot. [Link]
Russia
- Russia and the US are engaging in talks that could lead to a prisoner swap. [Link]
Philippines
- The Philippines wants more military aid in exchange for extending a visiting forces agreement with the US. [Link]
Middle East
- Iran says it will limit the inspections of the IAEA if the US does not lift sanctions on Iran by February 21st. [Link]
- The Palestinian Authority reports Israel is preventing vaccinations from entering Gaza. [Link]
- The Turkish government is unhappy with the Biden administration for not having a strong enough response to 13 Turkish soldiers being found executed in Iraq. [Link]
- Turkey arrests 700 Kurdish citizens over alleged connections to the execution of soldiers in Iraq. [Link]
- One civilian contractor was killed and one US soldier was injured in a rocket attack near the Erbil airport in Iraq. [Link]
- A DC Circuit judge will allow the CIA to deny a FOIA request about the program to arm Syria rebels. [Link]
Africa
- Sudan claims Ethiopian forces crossed into its territory in an act of aggression. [Link]
- Soldiers from Cameroon have been arrested after a video surfaced of them torturing a person with a machete. [Link]
- Guinea declared a new Ebola outbreak. [Link]
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo reports its fourth Ebola case in a new outbreak. [Link]
- Islamist militants – possibly the ADF – attacked a village in the Congo killing three soldiers and 13 civilians. [Link]
