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2 years on, Navalny's death still casts a shadow over Russia and wider Europe

9:15 AM on Monday, February 16

Mourners in Moscow have marked two years since Russian opposition leder Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic prison, as a new European analysis fuels claims he was killed by poisoning

Imran Khan’s physician says report of ‘improvement’ in ex-PM’s eyesight cannot be verified

8:18 AM on Monday, February 16

A team of doctors treating Pakistan’s imprisoned former premier Imran Khan has reported “improvement” in his eyesight, his personal physician said, but added he could neither confirm nor deny the assessment as he had no access to the former premier

NAACP asks judge to protect against 'misuse' of voter data seized by FBI in Georgia's Fulton County

7:04 AM on Monday, February 16

The NAACP and allied groups are asking a judge to limit how the federal government uses voter data seized in an FBI raid near Atlanta

Presidents Day 2026: Here's what's open and closed on the holiday

5:40 AM on Monday, February 16

Government offices, the stock market and schools are closed Monday in observance of Presidents Day, but most big retailers are open

Germany will keep supporting Lebanon after UN peacekeepers leave, the German president says

5:40 AM on Monday, February 16

Germany is seeking to assure Lebanon that it will support the Lebanese government even after pulling out German troops deployed as part of U.N. peacekeepers along the Lebanon-Israel border when their mission ends later this year

Obama shuts down alien buzz and says there's no evidence they've made contact

4:09 AM on Monday, February 16

Former U.S. President Barack Obama has clarified comments he made about alien life on a podcast over the weekend

Australians with alleged IS ties are turned back after departing Syrian camp for repatriation

4:05 AM on Monday, February 16

Syrian authorities have turned back a group of Australian women and children after they left a camp in Syria housing people with alleged ties to Islamic State militants in an attempt to head back to their home country

Myanmar expels East Timor's top diplomat over a criminal complaint alleging military abuses

1:58 AM on Monday, February 16

Myanmar’s military government ordered East Timor’s senior diplomat to leave the country after judicial authorities from the fellow Southeast Asian country accepted a criminal complaint against Myanmar's armed forces

No, George Washington didn't have wooden teeth. Yes, he led the Siege of Boston

11:41 PM on Sunday, February 15

More than a decade before he became the country’s first president, George Washington was leading a critical campaign in the early days of the American Revolution

No clear path to ending the partial government shutdown as lawmakers dig in over DHS oversight

11:49 AM on Sunday, February 15

Lawmakers and the White House are offering no signs of compromise in their battle over oversight of federal immigration officers

Trump's border czar says 'small' security force will remain in Minnesota after enforcement drawdown

10:35 AM on Sunday, February 15

More than 1,000 immigration agents have left Minnesota’s Twin Cities area and hundreds more will depart in the days ahead as part of the Trump administration’s drawdown of its immigration enforcement surge

Israel will begin contentious West Bank land registration in new step to deepen control

9:04 AM on Sunday, February 15

Israel is beginning a land registration process in the occupied West Bank that critics say can shift large areas into state control

US military boards another oil tanker in Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean

6:56 AM on Sunday, February 15

The U.S. military says it's boarded another sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean

Russia poisoned Alexei Navalny with dart frog toxin, European nations say

6:00 AM on Saturday, February 14

Five European countries say Russia poisoned Alexei Navalny with a rare toxin linked to poison dart frogs

Today in History: February 16, Castro sworn in as Cuban leader

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