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On 14 Feb 2026, the UK, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands jointly announced that forensic tests on Alexei Navalny’s remains detected the South-American neurotoxin epibatidine and said they will report Russia to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
On 12 Feb 2026, after a three-hour closed-door White House session, President Donald Trump overruled Israeli pressure for immediate escalation and declared that U.S.–Iran negotiations must continue, leaving military options on standby.
On 13 Feb 2026, President Trump and First Lady Melania traveled to Fort Bragg to publicly commend the Delta Force team that abducted former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in last month’s covert “Operation Absolute Resolve.”
On 12 Feb 2026 the Trump-led EPA formally withdrew its 2009 determination that CO₂ and five other greenhouse gases pose a danger to public health, scrapping the legal foundation for federal vehicle and stationary-source climate rules.
After a Financial Times scoop on Feb 11 claiming President Zelensky would unveil a Feb 24 timetable for a May presidential vote and peace-deal referendum, Zelensky and his office repudiated the report within a day, insisting no election will be set before a ceasefire and security guarantees.
On 13 Feb 2026 Washington abruptly ordered the Caribbean-based USS Gerald R. Ford to the Middle East, creating a two–aircraft-carrier force timed to increase leverage as nuclear talks with Tehran stall.
On 12 Feb 2026, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule rescinding the 2009 endangerment finding, immediately erasing federal greenhouse-gas standards for vehicles and marking what the administration calls the largest single regulatory rollback in U.S. history.
On 13 Feb 2026 Washington ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford to leave the Caribbean and join the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East, abruptly extending Ford’s eight-month deployment and giving the U.S. two carrier strike groups to pressure Iran during hurried nuclear talks.
On 11 Feb 2026 President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly rejected a Financial Times leak of a spring election and said nationwide ballots will occur only after a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire and firm Western security guarantees.
A Financial Times report alleging that Washington pushed Volodymyr Zelenskyy to announce nationwide elections and a peace referendum by mid-May 2026 was swiftly denied by the Ukrainian president’s office, highlighting unresolved legal and security barriers to wartime voting.
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