Current events: 2026-02-07

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli military aircraft destroy a residential building outside the areas controlled by Israel in Zaytun Quarter in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israeli settler violence
    • Three Palestinians are injured when Israeli settlers attack residents in the northern Jordan Valley. (Al Jazeera)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure, Ukrainian energy crisis
    • Ukraine schedules emergency power outages across the country citing Russian attacks on thermal power stations. (The Kyiv Independent)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Kordofan Campaign
    • At least 24 people are killed, including eight children, in a drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces on a vehicle carrying displaced families near Er Rahad, North Kordofan, Sudan. (CTV News)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Armed men kill three people and kidnap eleven others, including a Catholic priest, in Kaduna State, Nigeria. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Fifteen people are killed after a bus veers off a road and crashes into a valley near Badakhshan province, Afghanistan. (The Express Tribune)
• Six people are killed and three are injured after a truck rams into a bus on the Yamuna Expressway, Uttar Pradesh, India. (The Hindu)
• Five people are killed in an explosion at a factory in Shanyin County, Shanxi, China. (Xinhua News Agency)
• One person is killed, eight others are seriously injured, and nearly 15 are trapped, including students, when a three-story restaurant collapses in Kota, Rajasthan, India. (Hindustan Times) (CNN-News18)
• Three skiers are killed in avalanches in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Lombardy, Italy. (Reuters)

International relations

• Iran–United States relations, International sanctions against Iran
  • United States president Donald Trump signs an executive order threatening 25% tariffs on countries doing business with Iran, but does not apply them yet. (Bloomberg)

Law and crime

• Seven people are injured, including the perpetrator and four Indian nationals, in a mass stabbing at Bashkir State Medical University in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia. (The Hindu)
• Police arrest a woman and seize over 10,500 blasting gelatin sticks, wires, and detonators are seized from a lorry carrying onions parked at a bricks manufacturing unit in Chemmad, Kerala, India. (PTI)

Politics and elections

• Haitian crisis, Haitian conflict
  • The Transitional Presidential Council's mandate in Haiti expires, transferring the powers of the presidency to Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, who had recently survived a removal attempt by the council two weeks ago. (AFP via RFI) (The New York Times)

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