Start your day informed with AnewZ Morning Brief. Here are the top news stories for the 5th of February, covering the latest developments you need to know.
Qatari authorities have begun evacuating residents living near the U.S. Embassy in Doha as a precautionary measure, providing temporary accommodation for those displaced. The move follows a series of drone attacks targeting U.S. diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Dubai earlier this week, prompting the U.S. State Department to issue urgent warnings for American citizens to leave the region immediately, despite widespread commercial flight cancellations and airspace closures.
Millions of Israelis were sent scrambling into bomb shelters early Thursday as Iran launched a new wave of missile strikes, marking the sixth day of the widening U.S.-Israel conflict with Tehran. The escalation comes just hours after U.S. Republican senators successfully blocked a procedural motion that would have required President Donald Trump to seek congressional authorisation for the ongoing air campaign, leaving his war powers largely unchecked as the conflict spills over into new theatres, including the sinking of an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka and the interception of a ballistic missile over Türkiye.
The White House has clarified that deploying American ground forces into Iran is not currently part of the military strategy, as the U.S.-led air campaign continues to strike deep into Iranian territory. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that while options remain flexible, the current focus is on establishing "complete and total control" of Iranian airspace, with the Pentagon reporting a sharp 86% decrease in retaliatory ballistic missile launches from Tehran, allowing U.S. forces to progressively expand their strikes further inland.
The Israeli military has issued its widest evacuation order yet for southern Lebanon, instructing residents across an area comprising 8% of Lebanese territory to immediately relocate north of the Litani River. The directive follows intense cross-border hostilities with Hezbollah, which has fired drones and rockets deep into Israel in retaliation for the assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader. As Israeli troops advance into at least nine southern Lebanese towns and conduct heavy airstrikes on Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut, the United Nations reports that nearly 60,000 civilians have already fled the escalating violence.
Thirty-two Iranian sailors are recovering in a Sri Lankan hospital after surviving a U.S. submarine torpedo strike that sank their warship, the IRIS Dena, in the Indian Ocean early Wednesday morning. Authorities have recovered 87 bodies from the wreckage, with search and rescue operations ongoing for approximately 60 crew members still unaccounted for. The surprise attack, which occurred hundreds of miles from the primary theatre of conflict in the Gulf, marks a dramatic expansion of the U.S. military campaign, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth describing the strike on the vessel in international waters as a "quiet death".
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The U.S. has approved the sale of 500 Patriot PAC-3 missiles to Ukraine in a deal worth an estimated $2.1 billion, but Kyiv could face years of delays before receiving the weapons it urgently needs to defend against intensifying Russian attacks.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has ordered Iran's armed forces to respond to any threat immediately and without geographical limits in statements posted to social media platforms on Saturday (31 October).
Demonstrators carrying Iranian flags and placards supporting the hijab gathered outside the Azerbaijani Embassy in London.
A Chinese-made AI chip has matched Nvidia’s H200 in tests conducted by its developer, marking a potential breakthrough in China’s efforts to reduce its dependence on foreign technology.
A hacking group linked to North Korea is widely believed to be behind the theft of $6.3 billion from cryptocurrency giant Binance, a cyberattack that experts describe as the largest cryptocurrency heist on record.
Gen Z protests swept 34 German cities on Saturday (31 October) over education, living costs and military service proposals. Violence erupted in Frankfurt, where shops were looted and police reported Molotov cocktail attacks.
Iran designated Britain's Royal Navy and Royal Air Force as terrorist organisations on Sunday, (1 November), and classified the country's foreign intelligence agency, MI6, as a hostile group, according to a statement from the Iranian Foreign Ministry.
Thousands protested in Albania's capital, Tirana, on Saturday (31 October), demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama's resignation over perceived corruption allegations and dissatisfaction with the government over a lack of jobs and poor education standards.
Russia has agreed to work with Ghana on developing a 2,000-megawatt nuclear power plant following talks at the Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, Ghanaian Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said on Saturday.
Foreign ministers from the U.S., Japan, Australia and India raised concerns over export restrictions and economic coercion at a Quad meeting in Atlanta, U.S., on Saturday, 31 October 2026, according to their joint statement.
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