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Between 8–11 Feb 2026, Jerusalem formally told Washington it will attack Iran’s ballistic-missile infrastructure if U.S.–Iran diplomacy omits missile limits and Tehran’s stockpile expands beyond Israel’s red line.
On 12 Feb 2026 President Trump and EPA chief Lee Zeldin will void the 2009 Endangerment Finding, eliminating EPA’s Clean Air Act mandate to limit greenhouse-gas emissions from cars and light trucks.
In a Feb 10 Axios interview, President Trump warned he may dispatch a second U.S. aircraft-carrier strike group to the Gulf if the just-launched U.S.–Iran negotiations in Oman fail to produce a nuclear-missile accord.
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.
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