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DHAKA: The United States is concerned about China’s expanding presence in South Asia and is planning to offer Bangladesh’s next government US and allied defence systems as alternatives to Chinese hardware, Washington’s ambassador to Dhaka told Reuters.
Bangladesh votes in a general election on Thursday (Feb 12) after a Gen Z-led uprising toppled India-allied premier Sheikh Hasina in August 2024. She has since taken refuge in New Delhi, allowing China to deepen its influence in Bangladesh as India’s presence wanes.
China recently signed a defence agreement with Bangladesh to build a drone factory near the India border, worrying foreign diplomats. Bangladesh is also in talks with Pakistan to buy JF-17 Thunder fighter jets, a multi-role combat aircraft jointly developed with China.
There was something about the way the premier of British Columbia, David Eby, struggled to his words in front of the cameras that said a lot about how Canadians view the school shooting in a small town called Tumbler Ridge.
“This is the kind of thing that feels like it happens in other places, and not close to home.”
He is right about that. People expect this sort of thing to take place south of the border, in the United States – but not in Canada – not in a place like Tumbler Ridge.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has demanded an investigation into diplomat Fabrice Aidan following the revelation that the foreign affairs secretary shared a long email correspondence with late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein. French media reported that Aidan had resigned from his position at the United Nations in 2013 after having been caught visiting child sex abuse material websites.
from www.france24.com
Bangladesh’s first post-uprising election is a test for democratic norms and minority rights The Washington Post
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MOSCOW, February 11. /TASS/. No presidential election will be announced in Ukraine on February 24 as an election campaign can only be initiated at least six months after martial law is lifted, said Olga Aivazovskaya from a parliamentary group working toward an election.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Financial Times reported, citing sources, that Ukraine plans to hold a presidential election and a referendum on a peace deal with Russia by May 15. According to the British paper, Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky may make an announcement as early as February 24.
“Team work on drafting laws to hold the first post-war election is ongoing, and it is understood that at least six months must pass after martial law is lifted before an election campaign can begin,” she wrote on Facebook (banned in Russia, owned by Meta, a corporation recognized as extremist in Russia).
Grand jury refuses to indict six Democratic lawmakers Trump accused of ‘seditious behavior’ New York Post
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Billionaire Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are the latest California billionaires to buy a home in South Florida.
California is experiencing a historic capital flight, with billions of dollars and some of its most powerful economic actors heading for the exits. Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are the latest to decamp to South Florida, joining Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Peter Thiel—moves widely attributed to California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax and a hostile regulatory climate. The fallout has been immediate: California’s billionaire taxable base has reportedly collapsed from over $2 trillion to well under $1 trillion in a matter of weeks. At the same time, major employers are fleeing outright—Valero Energy is paying a staggering $1.1 billion just to exit the state, shutting its Benicia refinery and taking jobs, tax revenue, and nearly 9% of in-state gasoline capacity with it, as Phillips 66 follows suit. With California already leading the nation in outmigration per the U-Haul Growth Index, economists now warn of surging gas prices, supply instability, and a shrinking tax base—costs that will ultimately be shifted onto the middle class as the state’s wealthy individuals and industries vote with their feet.
The Meta CEO’s purchase makes him the latest—and arguably the biggest—name in a wave of Silicon Valley billionaires putting down roots in South Florida. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have both made purchases in the Miami area in recent weeks. Page picked up multiple properties in Coconut Grove for roughly $188 million, while Brin is reportedly in talks for a $50 million home on Biscayne Bay. Venture capitalist Peter Thiel opened a Miami office for his investment firm on New Year’s Eve, making his Florida move official. (Times of India)
Referring to the Supreme Court of India, the headline boasts “SC’s Landmark Ruling Allows 30-Week Abortion For Minor”.
The Times of India matter of factly explains
A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan said the key issue was the minor’s right to decide whether she wanted to continue the pregnancy. They observed that the girl was a minor facing an unfortunate situation and did not wish to give birth.
Amit Anand Choudhary describes the decision to authorize aborting a child who weighs about 3 pounds, whose eyes can open and close, whose hands are fully formed, who may respond to voices or music, and whose “lungs are not fully mature but the baby is practicing breathing motions” even more sympathetically
“This is important for all of Ukraine’s partners – in the United States and Europe – to understand,” he said.
He said that “security issues are the key priority right now,” as Ukraine faces continuing attacks, including on civilian population and energy infrastructure.
If insufferable Rep. Eric Swalwell is moving his lips, there’s a good chance he’s lying. The California Democrat with a fetish for Chinese Communist Party spies spent his time at Tuesday’s House Homeland Security Committee hearing demonizing federal immigration law enforcement agents to score political points with the anarchist wing of the far-left Democratic Party.
But Swalwell, a candidate for governor, ensnared himself in one of the biggest lies the left has told about the Department of Homeland Security agents sworn to enforce the nation’s immigration laws: The fractured fairy tale that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers “grabbed” a 5-year-old boy and used him as “bait, forcing him to knock on his own door so they could arrest his father.” It’s a load of crap, but that didn’t stop Swalwell from repeating it as his lackey held a blown-up photo of the kid behind him. You know what they say about a lie traveling halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Radical Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) has argued that sharp rhetorical “clapbacks” carry greater importance than strict accuracy in the current political environment.
Speaking with Vox interviewer Amistead Herndon, Crockett reflected on a prior verbal clash with then-Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) during a congressional hearing.
Crockett said Greene had a “bleach blonde, bad built butch body.”
Recalling the comment prompted Herndon to ask:
“As much as the phrase blew up, should we want our politicians to be clapback artists?”
“I think that in this moment you have to understand that politics has changed,” Crockett replied.
She continued by claiming Democrats are “viewed as the doormat for the Republicans.”
“[Voters] continue to say, ‘Where’s the opposition? Where’s the fight?’
Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson used an AI-generated image of Alex Pretti’s death in which a federal immigration agent is missing his head during a Homeland Security Committee hearing on Tuesday. Thompson is the same man who chaired the Jan. 6 Committee, which was also caught fabricating “evidence.”
While Thompson was chiding Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for allegedly creating a “demonstrably false story” about Pretti’s death, an apparent staffer held up an AI-generated image of Pretti with Border Patrol agents standing over him, and one of the agents is headless.
🚨 In a Homeland Security Committee hearing with ICE Director Todd Lyons, Rep. Bennie Thompson is using the AI generated image of Alex Pretti’s death in which a Border Patrol agent doesn’t have a head.
Truly unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/SByFRRPYtH
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 10, 2026
A shooting rampage at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia left 10 people dead and more than 25 injured on Tuesday, marking one of the deadliest school attacks in Canadian history.
Authorities said the gunfire erupted shortly after 1:20 p.m. local time at the high school in the remote community. Six victims were killed inside the building before the suspect was later found dead from what police described as a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
A seventh victim died while being transported to a hospital. Investigators also discovered two additional bodies at a nearby residence believed to be connected to the attack, reportedly the suspect’s mother and younger brother.
This year may have barely begun, but it has already witnessed many threats to President Donald Trump and members of his administration.
Trump survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024, and he faced another serious assassination attempt in West Palm Beach, Florida, two months later. The first assassin died in the attempt, and a judge sentenced Ryan Routh, 59, to life in prison plus 84 months last week for the second attempt.
Two events last year highlighted the rise of political violence on the left: the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and the comments of Democrat Jay Jones, who now serves as Virginia’s attorney general, wishing for the death of his political opponents. (Jones apologized for the comments after National Review exposed them.)
Immigration is shaping up to be the hit-button issue of this midterm election. One drawback, though, is that these types of stories require a steady flow of victims in order to keep the issue in front of the public. With the unrest in Minnesota off the news, CBS News thinks they may have struck gold.
Watch as Matt Gutman goes to Idaho to investigate an ICE raid and is tipped off about an ACLU lawsuit:
The thing about immigration as a hot-button issue is that it requires fresh victims in order to remain on the front-page. Watch as CBS News goes fishing in Idaho: pic.twitter.com/e1UTtEUSeg
Chaos reigned outside a Mogadishu, Minnesota courthouse. A rapid response until of constitutional observers witnessed ICE agents arresting someone who could have easily been one of your friends and neighbors, or even YOU. At least, that is, if you were caught with fifty pounds of methamphetamine. That was the person whom agents had to chase on foot before taking him into custody, but you wouldn’t know it if you glazed legacy media headlines on the X-Twitters.
Because let’s be honest. I know that you know that they know most people will just read the headline and use that to form their opinions.
We’ll start our story with ICE agents arresting a man who was charged with possessing over FIFTY POUNDS of meth. Note: When the media or the left (but I repeat myself) report that the majority of ICE arrests are people who were not charged with violent crime, they are talking about people like this guy and his fifty pounds of meth.
Despite his position as a Hollywood elite, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel likes to think of himself as a man of the people who cares for the little guy, but on his Tuesday show, Kimmel made the strange claim that illegal immigrants are “raising your children.”
While talking about Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s congressional testimony where he was questioned about his appearance in the Epstein files, Kimmel sarcastically declared, “But this was encouraging. Congressman Lisa McClain, a Republican from Michigan, is speaking out and loudly against Epstein’s co-conspirators.”
After a clip of GOP Rep. Lisa McClain at a press conference lamenting, “And you know what the Democrats want to do? Let’s release them into your communities. And let’s celebrate the criminals. Let’s villainize the ICE agents and celebrate the people who are raping your children,”… pic.twitter.com/jP9SbPxxtV
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) February 11, 2026
The RCMP said that the shooter is among the dead after a self-inflicted gun shot. Photo: TRSS site
The transgender individual alleged to be responsible for Tuesday’s deadly shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School has been identified by a close family member as Jesse Strang.
Juno News reported that it spoke directly with Russell G. Strang, Jesse Strang’s uncle, who confirmed that his nephew was responsible for the attack. The outlet’s managing editor, Cosmin Dzsurdzsa, stated on X that he had spoken with the suspect’s uncle and added that a YouTube account believed to belong to Jesse Strang features the transgender flag and lists “she/her” pronouns. The account also reportedly displays an SKS-style rifle. He also linked to his exclusive report.
Original story follows:
A school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia left 10 dead and 25 injured on Tuesday night. The RCMP said that the shooter is among the dead after a self-inflicted gun shot.
A motive for the rampage, which occured before 1:20 pm local time, at the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and a nearby residence has not yet been determined and North District commander Ken Floyd of the British Columbia RCMP has declined to identify the shooter in any way.
However, a police alert earlier in the day stated that the suspect was a “female in a dress with brown hair.”
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos.
Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’m trying to make one of my haphazard appearances, depending my energy level, after all these medications they put me on, after this lung cancer surgery. But I’m here on the farm, and I’m doing my best.
I wanna talk a little bit about the open defiance of the federal government. I’ve mentioned that earlier, but when you collate everything that Attorney General of Minnesota Keith Ellison has said, Gov. Tim Walz, Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis, it’s unabashed, unapologetic, insurrectionary rhetoric.
Virginia Democrats in a House of Delegates subcommittee have defeated a Republican-backed measure that would have helped pregnant women find abortion alternatives.
The vote proves Democrats are pro-abortion, not pro-choice.
The legislation would have required abortionists to inform women seeking about “safe haven provisions,” including baby boxes as an alternative to abortion. These are places where women who give birth can leave an unwanted baby for adoption, such as a police station or fire house.
A rural community in British Columbia, Canada, is reeling after a shooter allegedly opened fire inside Tumbler Ridge Secondary School Tuesday, reportedly killing nine and injuring dozens.
The suspect died from what’s being described as a “self-inflicted injury,” according to CBC News.
Nine people were confirmed dead, and at least 25 others were injured, the outlet reported.
The UN Secretary-General congratulated the Islamic Republic of Iran on the anniversary of its revolution.
Yes — congratulated.
What the shuddering fuck?! https://t.co/imfQUrl7G9
— Andrew Fox (@Mr_Andrew_Fox) February 11, 2026
This is the same regime accused of unleashing one of the bloodiest crackdowns in its modern history, gunning down its own citizens for the crime of demanding basic freedom. While Iranian families bury their dead, the head of the world’s so-called premier humanitarian body sends warm wishes to their oppressors.
There are so many things wrong with this. Lowered expectations? Really?
University instructs staff to lower academic expectations, extend deadlines for illegal alien students: EXCLUSIVE
Viterbo University, a private Catholic institution in La Crosse, Wisconsin, is instructing faculty to accommodate illegal alien students by relaxing attendance policies, assignment deadlines, and classroom participation expectations.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, passed by Republicans and signed by President Donald Trump last year, will add $4.7 trillion to deficits through 2035, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
The numbers were released Wednesday as part of the nonpartisan congressional scorekeeper’s annual budget and economic update, which includes projections for the debt, spending, inflation, and GDP.
“Somalia has come in here, what they’ve done to our country, these people, they’ve come into our country, and what they have done with that fake congresswoman, she’s so bad. ”
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar posted on X to suggest that President Donald Trump should be executed. She shared a clip of an interview with Trump on Fox News with the caption “The leader of the Pedophile Protection Party is trying to deflect attention from his name being all over the Epstein files. At least in Somalia they execute pedophiles not elect them.”
An explosive detail has been discovered in the newly released Jeffrey Epstein documents that has been hailed as a “bombshell” finding that could “solve the mystery” surrounding the child predator.
Former State Department official Mike Benz is sounding the alarm after newly released Department of Justice (DOJ) records revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) appears to hold classified information about Epstein.
In the files are documents showing that the CIA responded to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request tied to Epstein.
A media ratings website is suing the Federal Trade Commission for investigating alleged efforts to blacklist conservative news outlets, in a clash that is effectively dueling accusations of censorship.
NewsGuard Technologies sued the FTC in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday, alleging the Trump administration was trying to censor it, “simply out of disagreement with NewsGuard’s First Amendment-protected journalistic judgments about the reliability of news sources.”
“Under the guise of a supposed antitrust investigation, the FTC has demanded all documents (memos, emails, texts, reporters’ notes, subscriber lists, analyses, financial reports, and more) that NewsGuard has created or received since its founding in 2018,” the complaint says.
The FTC did not immediately respond to The Daily Signal’s inquiry for this story.
After Sen. John Fetterman’s first year in office — marked by a noticeable shift to the right as he recovered from the massive stroke that nearly derailed his 2022 Senate campaign — satire site The Babylon Bee ran a brutal headline: “Weird: Man Becomes More Conservative As He Regains Brain Function.” The piece opened with the line, “In a bizarre coincidence, Senator John Fetterman has suddenly become more conservative after his brain resumed working.”
Happily, that trend has continued. The Pennsylvania Democrat has voiced strong support for Israel and tougher border security, and even backed several of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees. Unsurprisingly, those positions have made him a frequent target of criticism from within his own party.
In an appearance on Fox News program Sunday Morning Futures, Fetterman once again ruffled Democratic feathers by affirming his support for voter ID laws, telling host Maria Bartiromo they were “a no brainer.”
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr launched an investigation into ABC’s The View amid the agency’s crackdown on broadcast television programs that abuse the agency’s statute on providing equal time for political candidates.
The post FCC Chief Brendan Carr Launches Probe into ‘The View’ appeared first on Breitbart.
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Governor Kathy Hochul has signed the Medical Aid in Dying Act into law in New York this past week. The language surrounding it is soft, all the same. Careful. Emotional and in lock step with every other death cult out there.
We’re told this is about dignity, compassion, and “shortening death, not life.” We’re told there are guardrails. We’re told this is safe.
I don’t buy it. It’s a lie, and we all know it. Anyone paying attention in Canada, the UK and others parts of the globe understand this expansion is something bigger. This is an entire world beginning to speak one language. The language of death.
I’ve heard this language before. Institutions always speak this way when they’re about to cross a moral line they don’t want to fully name.