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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Feb..17, 2026. (Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on X via AP)

France's Macron holds bilateral talks with India's Modi to boost economic and strategic ties

6:29 AM on Tuesday, February 17

French President Emmanuel Macron has held talks with India's Prime Minster Narendra Modi to deepen bilateral trade, technology, energy, and defense

FILE - Clothes by Chinese company Shein are seen in the BHV (Bazar de l'Hotel de Ville) department store, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)

Shein faces EU investigation over illegal products and addictive design features

4:45 AM on Tuesday, February 17

EU regulators are investigating Shein over illegal products and an allegedly addictive app design under the bloc’s Digital Services Act

Taxi drivers, foreground, block a main highway with their cars during a protest against the increased taxes and gasoline prices issued by the Lebanese Cabinet on Monday, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Protesters block Beirut roads after Cabinet approves new taxes that raise fuel prices

4:37 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Protesters block major roads around Beirut after Lebanon’s cabinet approves new taxes that raise fuel prices to fund public pay hikes

FILE - Jesse Jackson joins the crowd before the start of the world welterweight championship bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr., and Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas on May 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, File)

Photos show the life of civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson

4:28 AM on Tuesday, February 17

FILE - Jesse Jackson holds his hands up after announcing he will seek the Democratic nomination for president, with his campaign chairman Mayor Richard Hatcher, left, of Gary Ind., and Mayor Marion Barry of Washington, D.C., in Washington, Nov. 3, 1983. (AP Photo/Scott Stewart, File)

AP Was There: A profile of Jesse Jackson as he prepared his 1984 campaign for the presidency

4:06 AM on Tuesday, February 17

In 1983, The Associated Press profiled the Rev. Jesse Jackson when he was a 41-year-old civil rights activist preparing his historic 1984 campaign for the presidency

President of Bangladesh Mohammed Shahabuddin, left, congratulates Tarique Rahman, Chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party after administering him oath of Prime Minister of Bangladesh at the National Parliament in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Bangladesh’s new prime minister is sworn in after his party’s landslide election win

3:19 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Bangladesh’s new prime minister has been sworn in after his party’s landslide win in parliamentary elections last week, the country’s first since the massive 2024 uprising

Tarique Rahman is sworn in as Bangladesh’s new prime minister after his party’s landslide win in parliamentary elections

3:12 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Tarique Rahman is sworn in as Bangladesh’s new prime minister after his party’s landslide win in parliamentary elections

Family says the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights leader from the era of King to Black Lives Matter, has died

3:11 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Family says the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights leader from the era of King to Black Lives Matter, has died

Belgium's Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Belgium summons U.S. ambassador over tweet accusing kingdom of antisemitism

2:25 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Belgium has summoned the U.S. ambassador after he accused the country of antisemitic prosecution over a Jewish circumcision case

FILE -A U.S. M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) fires a missile during a Combined Joint Littoral Live Fire Exercise at the joint military exercise called "Balikatan", Tagalog for shoulder-to-shoulder in a Naval station in Zambales province, northern Philippines on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

US plans to deploy more missile launchers to the Philippines despite China's alarm

2:19 AM on Tuesday, February 17

The United States is planning to deploy more high-tech missile systems in the Philippines to help deter aggression in the South China Sea, where the treaty allies again condemned China’s “illegal, coercive, aggressive, and deceptive activities.”

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2:00 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Amentum Selected to Advance UK Hypersonic Strike Capabilities

2:00 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Family members of suspected Islamic State militants who are Australian nationals board a van heading to the airport in Damascus during the first repatriation operation of the year, at Roj Camp in eastern Syria, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. Thirty-four Australian citizens from 11 families departed the camp. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

Australia won't repatriate 34 women and children linked to IS from Syria

9:08 PM on Monday, February 16

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his government will not repatriate from Syria a group of 34 women and children with alleged ties to the militant Islamic State group

FILE - The opening page of X is displayed on a computer and phone, Oct. 16, 2023, in Sydney. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

EU privacy investigation targets Musk's Grok chatbot over sexualized deepfake images

5:02 PM on Monday, February 16

X faces a new EU privacy investigation after its Grok chatbot generated nonconsensual deepfake images on the platform

FILE - A person views posted signs on the locations of the now removed explanatory panels that were part of an exhibit on slavery at President's House Site in Philadelphia, Jan. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)

Trump administration ordered to restore George Washington slavery exhibit it removed in Philadelphia

4:26 PM on Monday, February 16

A federal judge has ordered an exhibit about nine people enslaved by George Washington to be restored at his former home in Philadelphia after President Donald Trump’s administration took it down last month

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the audience during a session at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Expectations are low for the latest US-brokered talks between Russia and Ukraine

3:57 AM on Monday, February 16

A Ukrainian delegation is heading to Geneva for another round of U.S.-brokered talks with Russian officials, days before next week’s fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor

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