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On 18-19 Feb 2026, Berlin publicly questioned its role in the €100 bn Franco-German-Spanish Future Combat Air System and opened talks to buy >35 additional U.S. F-35s, prompting Airbus to propose splitting FCAS into two separate fighter designs.
Minutes released Feb 18 show a 10-2 decision to keep the fed-funds rate at 3.50-3.75% while revealing a committee split: ‘several’ favor further cuts if inflation cools, but ‘some’ want language signaling hikes should inflation stay above target.
On 18 Feb 2026 both Budapest and Bratislava formally stopped shipping diesel to Ukraine, saying flows will resume only after Kyiv allows Russian crude to reach them again via the Druzhba pipeline.
Japan’s transport ministry will outlaw the use or re-charging of power banks on every passenger flight beginning April 2026, tightening existing carriage limits in response to a rapid rise in lithium-ion battery fires on aircraft and at home.
On 18 Feb 2026 Tokyo released the first $36 billion of its pledged $550 billion, funding a record-size 9.2 GW gas plant in Ohio, a $2.1 billion Texas deep-water oil terminal, and a $600 million synthetic-diamond factory in Georgia.
On 17 Feb 2026, Adani pledged a fresh US$100 billion to scale its data-centre footprint from 2 GW to 5 GW, coupling every megawatt with new green-energy build-outs to create what it calls the world’s first fully integrated “energy-compute” platform.
On 17 Feb 2026 Prague opened the possibility of sending limited east-bound oil through its Druzhba branch to Slovakia within days, and pledged full technical reversal within a year, after January’s halt of west-bound Russian flows left Hungary and Slovakia scrambling for substitutes.
On 17 Feb 2026 at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said India will place an immediate order for 20,000 GPUs and seeks to pull more than $200 billion in AI-infrastructure investment within the next two years, with $90 billion already pledged.
On 16 Feb 2026, Budapest and Bratislava formally asked Zagreb to reroute Russian crude through Croatia’s Adria pipeline because deliveries via Ukraine’s Druzhba line have been offline since a 27 Jan air-strike.
On 16 Feb 2026, Warner Bros. Discovery’s directors began actively evaluating Paramount Skydance’s amended takeover proposal—which absorbs a $2.8 bn break-up fee and adds a quarterly cash ‘ticking fee’—opening the door to ditching a signed sale to Netflix.
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