Accused Bondi Beach terror attack gunman makes first court appearance
Naveed Akram, 24, is accused of 15 counts of murder and one count of committing a terrorist act
Day: February 16, 2026
Myanmar expels East Timor’s top diplomat over a criminal complaint alleging military abuses
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.
Prosecutors say they’ll indict settler accused of killing Palestinian activist – The Times of Israel
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Former NFL All-Pro Tre’ Johnson dies ‘suddenly and unexpectedly’ aged 54
Tre’ Johnson’s wife confirmed that he passed away during a brief family trip
North Korea opens homes for troops killed in Ukraine
North Korea opens a Pyongyang housing district for families of soldiers killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine, as Kim Jong Un vows to honour “martyrs”.
Critical Airleader Vulnerability Exposes Systems to Exploitable Remote Attacks
A critical security vulnerability in Airleader Master software has been disclosed by CISA, exposing industrial control systems across multiple critical infrastructure sectors to potential remote code execution attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-135…
Sensor Tower: dating app downloads in Saudi Arabia have risen annually for five years, hitting 3.5M in 2025, as liberalization enables more casual relationships (Omar Abdel-Baqui/Wall Street Journal)
Omar Abdel-Baqui / Wall Street Journal:
Sensor Tower: dating app downloads in Saudi Arabia have risen annually for five years, hitting 3.5M in 2025, as liberalization enables more casual relationships — Liberalization has opened the…
US lags behind Estonia on free speech – EU’s Kallas
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has rejected criticism of EU censorship, arguing that Estonia ranks higher than the US on free speech
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Columbia’s Orfanidou says training AI using biased past risks excluding women from shipping
Cypriot tech expert argues that legacy problems in the industry could be viewed as the norm in machine learning
Mardi Gras makes changes to its famous beads a year after bringing in ban
Beads are back, but not the cheap plastic ones