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On 9 Feb 2026, Netanyahu’s five-member security cabinet adopted regulations that let any Israeli buy West Bank land and shifted key permit powers in Hebron from the Palestinian Authority to Israel, signalling a concrete step toward de-facto annexation.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s snap poll vaulted the Liberal Democratic Party from 198 to 316 seats on 8 Feb 2026, giving it a lone two-thirds grip on the lower house while the new Centrist Reform Alliance collapsed from 167 to 49 seats.
Leaked 9-10 Feb 2026 drafts show Brussels weighing a pledge of partial EU rights now and full accession by 2027 as part of any Russia-Ukraine peace deal, the first time EU membership is written into wartime negotiations.
On 8–9 Feb 2026, Israel’s five-member security cabinet adopted a package that removes restrictions on Jewish Israelis buying West Bank land and transfers key licensing, registry and enforcement authorities from the Palestinian Authority to Israeli agencies.
The 9 Feb 2026 lower-house vote flipped Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s three-month-old minority government into a two-thirds supermajority, allowing her to override the opposition-controlled Upper House on tax and defense bills.
Between 19:00 on 6 Feb and dawn 7 Feb 2026, Ukraine says Russia fired a single-night record of 447 drones and missiles; Ukrainian defences claimed to neutralise 406 of them, yet 34 struck 19 sites, primarily in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne and Vinnytsia.
On 8 Feb 2026, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi turned a risky winter snap poll into a mandate, with the Liberal Democratic Party and its Ishin ally crossing the two-thirds threshold in the 465-seat Lower House, giving her the numbers to override the upper chamber and pursue constitutional change.
On 8 Feb 2026, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi publicly ruled out “zero enrichment,” hardening Iran’s stance just two days after the first indirect U.S.–Iran nuclear meeting in Oman and amid a visible U.S. military build-up.
On the night of 3-4 Feb 2026, hours before U.S.–mediated peace negotiations were to restart, Moscow unleashed the largest airborne strike of the war—70-plus missiles and roughly 450 drones aimed at Ukraine’s power grid—abruptly ending the week-long pause brokered by President Trump.
After U.S. envoys met Iran’s foreign minister in Muscat on 6 Feb 2026, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu pulled his White House visit forward a week to lobby President Trump against a nuclear-only deal.
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