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On 3 Feb 2026, only four days into a U.S-announced one-week pause, Moscow resumed large-scale missile and drone strikes on Ukraine’s power grid, crippling heating in sub-zero weather while negotiators from Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. convened in Abu Dhabi.
At 00:00 GMT on 5 Feb 2026 the New START accord lapsed, removing the last legally binding limits on how many strategic nuclear warheads the United States and Russia may deploy.
On 5 Feb 2026, Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev announced “positive movement” toward a Ukraine peace settlement and confirmed imminent Russia-Ukraine-U.S. negotiations in Abu Dhabi, marking the first publicly acknowledged advance since 2024’s stalled cease-fire draft.
On 4 Feb 2026, after Xi Jinping warned Donald Trump that Taiwan is the “most important issue” and urged restraint on U.S. arms sales, governments in Taipei, Canberra and Ottawa publicly weighed or defended deeper cooperation with Taiwan, signalling push-back against Beijing’s pressure.
On 3 Feb 2026 Tehran and Washington accepted Turkey’s proposal for face-to-face nuclear negotiations on 6 Feb in Istanbul, with Iran publicly instructing its foreign minister to attend and regional states invited as observers.
On 3 Feb 2026 the White House confirmed that envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will attend a second round of U.S.–Russia–Ukraine peace talks in Abu Dhabi scheduled for 4-5 February, following an inaugural session in late January.
In a 28 January 2026 memo to all 193 member states, UN chief António Guterres warned the organisation will be unable to pay its regular bills by July unless massive arrears are settled or its refund-on-surplus rule is scrapped.
On 29 Jan 2026 President Trump signed an executive order declaring Cuba a national-security “emergency” and empowering U.S. agencies to slap extra tariffs on imports from any country—chiefly Mexico—that continues sending crude or refined products to the island.
Washington and Tehran agreed to hold their first direct nuclear negotiations since 2025 in Istanbul on Friday, even as the U.S. dispatches an aircraft-carrier strike group toward Iran and President Trump warns that "bad things" loom without a deal.
On 1 Feb 2026 Israel activated a EU–Egypt monitored “pilot” at Rafah, reinstating strictly vetted pedestrian traffic for the first time since it seized the crossing in May 2024.
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