The American delegation set an ambitious goal during the negotiations in Abu Dhabi. The United States wants Ukrainian citizens to vote in a referendum on the terms of the truce as early as May 2026, Reuters reports , citing five sources. The publication notes that the administration of US President Donald Trump is in a hurry, as the moment is approaching when the head of the White House will have to focus on domestic policy issues.

The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games took place in several places at once: in Milan, Cortina d'Ampezzo, as well as in the towns of Predazzo and Livigno, located in the Alps. The main star of the ceremony was the Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli, who also opened the 2006 Olympics in Turin. The 2026 Winter Olympics will last from February 6 to 22. About three thousand athletes from almost 100 countries will take part in the main sports competitions of the winter season.

Several people at a Kyiv school became seriously ill at once. They all felt sick after they had lunch in the cafeteria. Not everyone was saved. Investigators soon learned that this was not the first death of school employees over the past year. The investigation led to the exposure of an entire family, and one criminal was shot. “Cold” tells how the criminals were caught, whose cynicism and cruelty shocked the entire city.

Days after US President Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Iran, state-owned Russian bank Promsvyazbank began supplying cash currency to the Islamic republic, The Telegraph reports , citing four sources. This happened during Trump’s first presidential term. Cash deliveries from Russia, according to the publication, began in 2018, when the Iranian regime suppressed protests that arose in the wake of dissatisfaction with the economic situation in the country.

The National Assembly of Venezuela, which serves as the country's supreme legislative body, unanimously adopted a general amnesty law in the first reading. If parliament does not change its intentions, hundreds of political prisoners may soon be released, Infobae reports . At the same time, the head of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez, who is also the brother of the acting President of Venezuela Delcy Rodriguez, hurried the deputies, saying that there was little time to make decisions.

Democratic politicians have accused US President Donald Trump of racism. All because the head of the White House published a video on the TruthSocial social network in which former American leader Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are presented as monkeys. The video lasts more than a minute. It spends most of its time talking about potential voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election in states where Trump was leading. And only in the last seconds the Obamas appear.

In 2025, the Russian oil company Lukoil made an uncharacteristic attempt to enter a new grain trading market. But the already open company with hired employees had to be closed due to US sanctions. Bloomberg writes about this, citing anonymous sources. The company created by Lukoil was called Teruva FZCO, and experienced traders in the grain market were attracted to it already in the summer.

TimeOut has compiled a list of the 18 best pizzerias on the planet. Authors from around the world helped the editors evaluate the taste of this dish. Journalists note that people are accustomed to the fact that the main types of pizza have approximately the same taste, but some pizzerias have been able to improve the traditional recipe and make the dish even tastier and more appetizing. The first place was taken by Mama's Too pizzeria from New York.

The new iPhone 17e will go on sale on February 19, exactly one year after the release of the iPhone 16e, Macwelt reported . According to journalists, Apple will not hold a separate presentation for the device, but will limit itself to a press release on its website, as with the iPhone 16e. This is due to the fact that smartphones with the letter “e” in the name are not flagship ones. The new model will not have the main problem that iPhone 16e owners complained about, sources told Macwelt.

Starting from April 2026, Russian embassies and consulates will begin issuing business visas to foreigners who are of interest and benefit to Russia. This was announced by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. These visas are more commonly referred to as “talent visas.” Typically, countries issue them to foreigners who have either an in-demand profession or high qualifications and outstanding skills in a particular field.

The Istra City Court of the Moscow Region arrested Aliya Galitskaya, the ex-wife of entrepreneur and ex-member of the board of directors of Alfa Bank Alexander Galitsky. She is suspected of extorting more than $150 million from her ex-husband. This was reported by the joint press service of the courts of the Moscow region. The court granted the investigation's request and chose Galitskaya as a preventive measure in the form of detention.

The State Duma Committee on State Building and Legislation recommended adopting in the first reading a bill to tighten criminal liability for forgery and circulation of false medical certificates about the absence of dangerous diseases. This was reported by the Interfax agency. Bill No. 1120757-8 was introduced to the State Duma on January 16. Its authors were 426 deputies, led by the speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin.

Russian banks are faced with a shortage of yuan in the market - the rate on overnight yuan loans on the Moscow Exchange increased from 1% to 16% per annum on February 5. The Moscow Times writes about this with reference to Moscow Exchange statistics and expert opinion. An overnight loan is a loan for one day; by the evening the rate had dropped to 8%, but on February 6 it rose again to 10.8%. Experts consider this a sign of a local yuan shortage.

Mortuary employees at the Alexander Hospital in St. Petersburg sold human organs to commercial companies for experiments. “Biomaterials” were used as prototypes in cosmetology, surgery and dentistry, said official representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk. Mortuary staff were also allowed to perform autopsies without the required paperwork, she said. In addition, the police have identified several cases where the bodies of the deceased were replaced.

The US Department of Energy has offered the country's states, in exchange for payments from the budget, to bury nuclear waste on their territory. This was reported by Reuters. Washington plans to find states that will voluntarily agree to host a large nuclear technology cluster on their territory, which will include: an underground storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, new nuclear power plants, nuclear waste processing plants, uranium enrichment plants, and large data centers.