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1. Hong Kong’s budget must help those who need it most

   Maybe it’s because we are riding on the euphoria of good fortune and luck that is associated with the celebration of the Lunar New Year that there hasn’t been much of the noise that we usually hear ahead of the annual budget speech. Typically, the weeks leading up to the speech are filled with groups petitioning and suggesting how the government should be spending its money. Could it be because...

2. Police officer killed, 24 people wounded in bomb explosions in Ukraine’s Lviv

   One police officer was killed and 24 people were wounded after several explosive devices detonated at midnight in Lviv in western ‌Ukraine, the National Police said on Sunday, in an attack President Volodymyr Zelensky blamed on Russia. “It has been preliminarily established that home-made explosive devices detonated,” the police said on the Telegram messaging service. Lviv’s mayor, writing on...

3. New York Mayor Mamdani orders citywide travel ban ahead of major US storm

   New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Sunday ordered the shutdown of the city’s entire traffic network for all but emergency travel ahead of a massive snowstorm expected to hit the northeast United States. Tens of millions of Americans from the US capital, Washington, to the northern state of Maine braced for the storm, with up to 60cm (2 feet) of snow forecast in some areas. The National Weather...

4. Mexican army kills leader of Jalisco New Generation Cartel, official says

   The Mexican army killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho”, in an operation on Sunday, a federal official said. The official, who requested anonymity because they were not authorised to speak publicly, said it happened during a military operation in the western state of Jalisco. It followed several hours of roadblocks with burning...

5. France will summon US envoy Charles Kushner over comments on activist’s death

   France will summon US ambassador Charles Kushner to protest against comments by the Trump administration over the death of a far-right activist, the foreign affairs minister said. Jean-Noel Barrot was reacting to a statement by the State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau, which posted on social media that “reports, corroborated by the French Minister of the Interior, that Quentin Deranque was...

6. UK protection officers instructed to guard 2010 Epstein dinner party, reports say

   London police officers assigned to King ⁠Charles’ younger brother ⁠Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor were instructed to provide ⁠security for a dinner party at Jeffrey Epstein’s New York home in 2010, British media reported on Sunday. The Sunday Times, which first reported the story, cited emails from the Epstein files that ‌appear to detail arrangements for Mountbatten-Windsor to stay with the late...

7. 5 dogs found poisoned to death in Hong Kong’s New Territories in single week

   A dog suspected to have been poisoned was found dead in Hong Kong’s New Territories on Sunday, the fifth such case in the past week, according to police. The force on Sunday said that between February 16 and Saturday, it had received four reports involving the discovery of five dead dogs suspected to have been poisoned in an open space on Liu Pok Road in Lok Ma Chau. The latest case had been...

8. Hong Kong eyes booking system, fees after campers overrun hotspots

   Hong Kong authorities are looking at implementing a booking system and charging fees for camping hotspots as part of a review of management strategies in response to public concerns about overcrowded beaches and litter during the Lunar New Year holiday. The Agricultural, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) posted its plan on its Facebook page on Sunday after campers and hikers called...

9. US Secret Service kills armed man entering perimeter of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort

   An armed man drove into the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, US President Donald Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Florida, as another vehicle was exiting before being shot and killed early on Sunday morning, according to a spokesman for the US Secret Service. The man, who was in his early 20s and from North Carolina, had a gas can and a shotgun, according to Anthony Guglielmi, the spokesman. He had...

10. Hungary spoils EU attempt at Russia sanctions package over oil flows

    Hungary threatened to block a new package of European Union sanctions against Russia and to stall efforts to help Ukraine until Russian oil deliveries to Hungary resume. The EU’s foreign ministers are set to meet in Brussels on Monday to discuss the bloc’s 20th round of sanctions against Moscow, a measure they hope will be approved in time to coincide with the fourth anniversary of Russia’s...