
Colombia launches search for missing plane carrying 15 people
Contact with the aircraft was lost just minutes before it was due to land in northern Colombia, state airline Satena says.
TUESDAY, 03 FEBRUARY 2026, 16:09

Contact with the aircraft was lost just minutes before it was due to land in northern Colombia, state airline Satena says.

Five people died in the attack in northeastern Ukraine when three drones targeted the train.
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned the mayor of Minneapolis – where the brutal killings of two US protesters by immigration agents sparked nationwide outrage – that he is “playing with fire.”

Satellite images show a steady and significant build-up of US military forces in the region.

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The EU foreign policy chief’s remarks come days after Nato’s secretary general said Europe needed the US for its defence.

Ajit Pawar, who died in a plane crash, reshaped Maharashtra’s politics in surprising ways.

At his first Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing since Nicolas Maduro was seized, Secretary of State Marco Rubio warns the U.S. could still use force to pressure Venezuela’s adminstration.

NPR obtains documents showing the Trump administration secretly cut nuclear safety rules to fast-track new reactors. And, investigators blame systemic failures for a deadly midair crash near D.C.

The Football Association of Malaysia executive committee has resigned to pave the way for reforms.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said the pause was part of general fluctuations in oil supplies and that it was a “sovereign decision” not made under pressure from the United States.
As the White House worked to “de-escalate” tensions in Minneapolis, a man sprayed Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with a syringe of unknown liquid at a town hall meeting, where she called for curbing the Trump administration’s anti-immigration crackdown.

Kim Keon Hee was also ordered to return a Graff diamond necklace and pay back 12.85m won in cash.

Spain’s government announced Tuesday it will grant legal status to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants living and working in the country without authorization.
US immigration agents may have breached “protocol” in Minneapolis before shooting dead a nurse during protests, US President Donald Trump’s senior aide Stephen Miller said – after falsely branding the victim an assassin.

About a million fans were vying for 150,000 concert tickets, which sold out in less than 40 minutes.

The US president said Iraq would have “zero” chance of success without American support.

Abena Christine Jon’el has made Ghana her home and aims to raise the profile of people with disabilities.

The wife of disgraced former president Yoon Suk Yeol is facing court on a raft of her own charges.

U.S. Homeland Security agents provided security support at past Olympics. But after violence by ICE agents in Minneapolis, some Italian officials say an ICE unit is unwelcome in Milan Cortina.

Joel Guerriau received a four-year prison sentence, 18 months of which are to be served behind bars.