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The Berlin Hospital Association (BKG) has issued a warning describing a spate of seemingly "inexplicable incidents" at hospitals and health care facilities in the capital. These range from drone incursions over hospital grounds and cyberattacks to forced entry and arson.  The BKG said Germany's security and intelligence services have classified at least some of these attacks

Published February 6, 2026 last updated February 6, 2026 Iran said it "entering diplomacy with open eyes" as its representatives are set to meet US officials in Oman. It comes as US President Trump has ordered a naval buildup near Iran and threatened to attack. DW has more. https://p.dw.com/p/58BXs Iran has threatened to fight back

The United States' ambassador to Poland, Tom Rose, said he was cutting all contact with Wlodzimierz Czarzasty, the speaker of the country's lower house of parliament, known as the Sejm. Rose accused Czarzasty of making "outrageous and unprovoked insults directed against [US President Donald Trump]." Warsaw is one of the US' closest allies in Europe

Berlin Brandenburg Airport said Friday it is suspending flight operations in the morning due to poor weather conditions. "Due ​to weather conditions, no take-offs or ⁠landings ​are currently possible," the airport said in a statement on its website. The airport already saw numerous cancelations on Thursday due to freezing rain. Berlin Brandenburg is Germany's third-busiest airport

The US military on Thursday said it killed two people in a strike on a boat suspected of carrying illegal drugs in the eastern Pacific. "Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations," the US Southern Command posted on X. It added that

Former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjorn Jagland is under police investigation on "suspicion of aggravated corruption" over his alleged links to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, police said on Thursday. "We consider there are reasonable grounds for investigation, given that he held ⁠the positions of chair of the Nobel Committee and Secretary General of the

Delcy Rodriguez, Venezuela's interim president, on Thursday said the first parliamentary vote on an amnesty bill marked an important step towards "peace and national reconciliation." "A very important event has occurred for Venezuela: the unanimous adoption by all the political forces present in the Assembly, in its first reading, of the amnesty law, which is a

US President Donald Trump on Thursday called for a new nuclear treaty instead of extending the caps on nuclear weapons deployments with Russia. Hours after the pact that held the world's two largest nuclear arsenals in check for more than two decades expired, Trump said that the New START treaty was "badly negotiated" and "is being

Famine is spreading in North Darfur in western Sudan, United Nations-backed monitors said Thursday. Millions of people in Sudan have been facing malnutrition since a civil war began in April 2023. The conflict between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced nearly

Following a nationwide power outage over the weekend and a Russian drone and missile strike on Kyiv on Tuesday night, 1,170 apartment blocks in the Ukrainian capital are currently without heat. At the same time, outside temperatures have dropped to below minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit). Many residential buildings have already been without heat and electricity for weeks