French screen legend Isabelle Huppert's latest film, which has premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, sees her play a flamboyant aristocratic vampire in Ulrike Ottinger's "Die Blutgraefin" ("The Blood Countess").
Peru's Congress is set to elect an interim president on Wednesday to replace Jose Jeri, who was impeached in a graft scandal just four months after taking office.
Just days before her third runway show, French designer Pauline Dujancourt was riding a wave of excitement and nerves.
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- Congolese rumba, music caught between neglect and nostalgia
Politics
In front of Moscow's ornate Bolshoi Theatre, its soft yellow lights illuminating a snowstorm in the Russian capital, Valentina Ivakina had come to "escape today's problems".
February 18, 2026
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Junk to high-tech: India bets on e-waste for critical minerals
Economy
February 18, 2026
From tracking the trajectory and speed of a footballer's strike to monitoring a Tour de France rider's real-time power output, performance athlete data is deepening its reach in sports, with specialised firms eyeing to score big business.
February 18, 2026
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Weeks after Hamdy Ibrahim left his village in Egypt's Nile Delta hoping to reach Europe, his brother's phone rang with a chilling message from Libya: pay now or the boy would die.
February 18, 2026
Indonesian villager Supriyanto is visibly frustrated as he discusses the sprawling coal power plant emitting white plumes of smoke over his small fishing community.
February 18, 2026
Ukrainian and Russian negotiators were to resume a second round of US-mediated peace talks in Geneva on Wednesday, though neither side signalled they were any closer to ending Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II.
February 18, 2026
Economy
With women banned from most jobs in Afghanistan, an embroidery boutique run by 22-year-old Rahima Alavi is a surprising and treasured sight in Bamiyan.
February 18, 2026
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify Wednesday at a groundbreaking social media addiction trial, summoned by lawyers representing a plaintiff who alleges Instagram and other platforms were deliberately designed to make young users addicted.
Residents in a leafy, conservative New Jersey suburb have erupted in protest against plans to convert a vast warehouse into an immigration detention center as part of President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign.
A frantic search was underway Tuesday for ten back-country skiers missing in an avalanche in the mountains of California, where a huge storm has dumped heavy snow.
Heavily armed Guatemalan troops and military police deployed to the country's capital Tuesday, challenging street gangs blamed for killing 11 officers and sparking a major security crisis.
February 18, 2026
Politics
The United States said Tuesday it would hold talks with Mauritius on retaining its military presence on an Indian Ocean archipelago being returned by Britain in a deal earlier denounced by President Donald Trump.
February 18, 2026
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The Mexican military is preparing to confront the potential threat of non-authorized drones in stadiums used for this summer's football World Cup.
STOCKHOLM, SE / ACCESS Newswire / February 18, 2026 / Stockholm Precision Tools (SPT) has successfully completed the first field deployment of its SPT GyroTracer™ GWD (Gyro While Drilling) system in Nigeria, marking a significant milestone for gyro-based wellbore positioning in magnetically challenging drilling environments.
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA / ACCESS Newswire / February 18, 2026 / Datavault AI Inc. (NASDAQ:DVLT) ("Datavault AI" or the "Company"), a leader in data monetization, credentialing, digital engagement and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization technologies, today announced the execution of a collaboration agreement with TBURN Chain Foundation ("TBURN"), a high-performance blockchain infrastructure platform.
Stagwell, Axel Springer, Teads and The Trade Desk partner on German News Advertising Study, drawing insights from over 11,000 respondentsStudy finds the proportion of ‘news junkies' in Germany is highest of all the surveyed markets
February 18, 2026
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