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- 9 Feb 2026 7:07 AM IST
Israel's security cabinet approves measures to strengthen control over West Bank
Israel's security cabinet on Sunday approved measures that aim to deepen Israeli control over the occupied West Bank and weaken the already limited powers of the Palestinian Authority.
The office of far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in a statement announced the decisions that would make it easier for Jewish settlers to force Palestinians to give up land, adding that “we will continue to bury the idea of a Palestinian state.” Yonatan Mizrachi, a researcher with the Israeli anti-settlement watchdog group Peace Now, called the decision “very significant.” He said the decision still requires approval by Israel's top commander for the West Bank.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a statement called the decision “dangerous” and an “open Israeli attempt to legalise settlement expansion” and land confiscation. He called for the United States and UN Security Council to intervene immediately.
Jordan's foreign ministry condemned the decision, which it said was “aimed at imposing illegal Israeli sovereignty” and entrenching settlements.
- 9 Feb 2026 7:05 AM IST
Storm Marta kills at least 4 in Morocco as country battles floods
Flash floods caused by a storm in northern Morocco killed at least four people as the country struggled with days of heavy rain and water releases from overfilled dams that forced mass evacuations, local authorities said Sunday.
Three children — a girl and two boys aged 2 to 14 — and a man in his 30s died in a car that was swept away in a village near Tétouan, about 270 km north of the capital Rabat, according to a statement from the Interior Ministry citing local authorities. Another person remains missing.
Local authorities said they will open an investigation into what happened. The flash floods were caused by a storm system known as Marta, which moved into Morocco over the weekend and dumped up to 92 mm of rain on some northern cities, Houssine Youabed of Morocco's General Directorate of Meteorology told The Associated Press. Storm Marta also reached neighbouring Spain and Portugal.
Days earlier, another storm, Leonardo, hit northern Africa and the Iberian peninsula. In Morocco, it overfilled dams and rivers, damaging homes and crops, triggering minor landslides and forcing more than 1,50,000 people to evacuate.
- 9 Feb 2026 7:04 AM IST
Truck carrying passengers crashes in northern Nigeria, killing at least 30 people
A truck carrying passengers crashed in northern Nigeria because of reckless driving, killing at least 30 people and injuring several others, authorities said Sunday.
The trailer was driving along a highway in Kwanar Barde town in Kano's Gezawa local government area when it lost control, according to a statement from the Kano governor's office.
Road accidents are frequent in Africa's most populous country, in part due to poor road conditions and lax enforcement of traffic laws. The truck involved in the latest accident was carrying some passengers and goods towards Gujungu town in Kano when it crashed early Sunday morning.
Those injured, many of them with serious injuries, are receiving medical care in different hospitals, according to the statement issued by Sunusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, spokesman for Kano Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf. “The governor described the incident as heartbreaking and a great loss not only to the affected families but to the entire people of Kano state,” the statement added.
