Issue 2026-02-05
Stories
- New START Treaty Expires, Lifting US-Russia Warhead Caps
- Moscow Signals Breakthrough Ahead of Abu Dhabi Ukraine Talks
- Xi–Trump Call Triggers Fresh Global Scramble Over Taiwan Ties
- Tariff Truce: US Agrees to Cut Duties on Indian Imports to 18% in First-Phase Trade Deal
- US Unveils Critical Minerals Preferential Trade Zone Plan at 55-Nation Ministerial
- Anthropic’s Claude Cowork Plugins Spark $285 B Software Stock Meltdown
- SpaceX Acquires xAI, Forging a $1.25 Trillion Musk Colossus Ahead of IPO
- NASA Pushes Artemis II Crewed Moon Flyby to March After Hydrogen Leak in Full-Dress Countdown
- Nintendo Stock Drops 11% After Switch 2 Profit Misses and Memory-Cost Jitters
At a Glance
- At 00:00 GMT on 5 Feb 2026 the New START accord lapsed, removing the last legally binding limits on how many strategi...
- On 5 Feb 2026, Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev announced “positive movement” toward a Ukraine peace settlement and conf...
- On 4 Feb 2026, after Xi Jinping warned Donald Trump that Taiwan is the “most important issue” and urged restraint on...
- On 2 Feb 2026, after 18 months of on-again, off-again talks and a peak tariff of 50%, President Trump and Prime Minis...
- At a 4–5 Feb 2026 State Department summit, Vice-President JD Vance proposed a price-floor-backed preferential trade b...
- Between 3–4 Feb 2026, the debut of Anthropic’s industry-specific plugins for its Claude Cowork AI agent ignited a two...