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Mother charged after two babies found dead in family's freezer, France

The mother of two infants found dead in a freezer in eastern France has been charged and placed in pre-trial detention, a prosecutor told AFP on Friday. The case is the latest suspected instance of infanticide to emerge in France in recent years. Prosecutor Cedric Logelin told AFP the 50-year-old woman was charged late on Thursday, a day after she was arrested in the western Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt and admitted to freezing her newborns. No one else has been charged, he added. The grim discovery was made after the woman, who had nine children from three different fathers, had abruptly left the family home in the eastern town of Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont in December. She left behind four of her children, aged 14 to 20, their father and a fifth child from another relationship. On Tuesday, a family member discovered the body of a newborn in a freezer. After the family raised the alarm, police discovered a second body in the same freezer, wrapped in a bag. Suspicion quickly focu...
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UK terror ban on pro-Palestine group unlawful, court rules after appeal

The British government's ban on pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is unlawful, London's High Court ruled on Friday after a legal challenge by the group's co-founder. Palestine Action was proscribed in July, having increasingly targeted Israel-linked defence companies – particularly Elbit Systems – in Britain, with "direct action", often blocking entrances, or spraying red paint. The ban had put Palestine Action on a par with Islamic State or al Qaeda and made it a crime to be a member, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. Lawyers representing Huda Ammori, who co-founded Palestine Action in 2020, argued at a hearing last year that the move was an authoritarian restriction on the right to protest. The High Court upheld two grounds of challenge, including that the ban was a disproportionate interference with the right to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. Read: Australia urges calm after violent...
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Turkiye detains 16 in OnlyFans probe, seizes $6.9m in assets

Turkey detained 16 people and seized assets worth about 300 million lira ($6.9 million) on Friday in an investigation into alleged money laundering linked to content shared on the OnlyFans platform, prosecutors said. The probe, led by a department investigating terrorism financing and money laundering crimes, targeted 25 suspects and two companies in operations across eight provinces, including Istanbul, Ankara and Antalya, the Istanbul chief public prosecutor’s office said. Prosecutors said suspects generated income by sharing explicit content on social media and directing users to paid platforms, including OnlyFans and private messaging channels such as Telegram. Read: PM calls for boosting agri ties with Türkiye OnlyFans has been blocked in Turkey since June 7, 2023, by a ruling of an Istanbul court on the grounds that it hosted content deemed contrary to public morality and family values. Despite the ban, suspects were found to have accessed the platform via virtual private network...
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Foreign cars flow to Russia through China, skirting Ukraine war sanctions

Tens of thousands of cars are being exported from China to Russia under gray-market schemes that often circumvent Western and Asian government sanctions and automakers' commitments to exit the Russian market, according to registration data reviewed by Reuters and interviews with five people involved in the trade. The sanctions and company pledges came in reaction to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. But a thriving trade in these vehicles – from Toyotas 7203.T and Mazdas 7261.T to German luxury models – continues partly through informal networks enabling Russian dealers to order them through Chinese intermediaries, the interviews and data from Russian research firm Autostat show. Most are made in China - where many international brands build vehicles with local partners - or are shipped through there after being manufactured elsewhere, according to the data and sources. A growing number are zero-mileage "used" vehicles – new cars registered as sold in China by dealers...
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Risk of Nipah virus spread low after cases in India, Bangladesh: WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the risk of the deadly Nipah virus spreading was low after three cases of infection were recently confirmed in India and Bangladesh. Nipah, which spreads from animals to humans, has no vaccine and a fatality rate ranging from 40 to 75 per cent, according to the UN health body. "In the past few weeks, three cases of Nipah -- two in India and one in Bangladesh -- made headlines and caused concern about a wider outbreak," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference in Geneva on Wednesday. WHO assessed the risk of spread of the Nipah virus regionally and globally and found it low, he added. Two cases of Nipah were confirmed last month in India's West Bengal state, while one patient died in Bangladesh last week after contracting the virus. "The two outbreaks were not related, although both occurred along the India-Bangladesh border, and share some of the same ecological and cultural conditions, as well as popul...
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Pakistan dispatches additional 100 tonnes of aid to Palestine

Under the directives of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has dispatched another consignment of humanitarian aid to Palestine. The latest shipment, comprising 100 tonnes of food items including dates, flour, rice, and cooking oil, was sent via chartered flight from Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore to Egypt, for onward delivery to Gaza. With the dispatch of this consignment, the total volume of humanitarian assistance sent to Palestine through 29 consignments now stands at 2,827 tonnes, according to Radio Pakistan. The @ndmapk has dispatched another consignment of relief goods for #Palestine@ForeignOfficePk @Palestine_UN @UN @UNHumanRights #RadioPakistan #News https://t.co/hVVrZbmKyo pic.twitter.com/kTNNb8NYjm — Radio Pakistan (@RadioPakistan) February 12, 2026 The send-off ceremony was attended by senior officials from the NDMA, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and representatives from other relevant government departments. Thi...
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Iran will not yield to ‘excessive demands’ on nuclear programme: Pezeshkian

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Wednesday that his country would "not yield to excessive demands" on its nuclear programme, after Tehran resumed talks with the United States. Speaking at Azadi Square in the capital Tehran, to mark the 47th anniversary of Iran's Islamic revolution, he said, "Our country, Iran, will not yield to their excessive demands." "Our Iran will not yield in the face of aggression, but we are continuing dialogue with all our strength with neighbouring countries in order to establish peace and tranquillity in the region," President Pezeshkian said, also adding that the state was ready for "any verification" of its nuclear programme and insisted it was not seeking an atomic weapon. Iran and the United States resumed negotiations last week for the first time since the war with Israel last June, which saw the US conduct strikes on nuclear sites in Iran. Iran wants the talks to remain centred purely on its nuclear pr...
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