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Day: February 19, 2026
Of the G20, only four countries participated apart from the US:
Argentina, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia & Turkey.
Missing: All the big Western countries (UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, South Korea & Japan), China, Brazil, Mexico, India & South Africa.
Right!— Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) Feb 20, 2026
Thursday on the News Hour, former Prince Andrew is arrested as part of the widening global fallout related to Jeffrey Epstein. Nations pledge billions of dollars to President Trump’s so-called Board of Peace that promises to rebuild war-torn Gaza. Plus, South Korea’s former president is handed a life sentence for imposing martial law. PBS News is supported by – https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy
🇦🇿🇺🇸 Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev visited DC for the “Board of Peace” Gaza meeting.
His security detail was outside brawling with protesters.
Armenian advocacy groups are calling it authoritarian behavior brought onto U.S. soil, and are already comparing it to the 2017… pic.twitter.com/OhgXotd4Am
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 20, 2026
The abuse of Ukrainian prisoners of war — beatings, torture, and extrajudicial killings — has been documented throughout Russia’s full-scale invasion. What has been harder to document is the chain of command behind it: who is informed and who issues the orders. Through an archive of personal messages, photographs, and videos obtained from a source within the Ukrainian military, journalists now have rare insight into Russian war crimes in Ukraine. In a new investigation, journalists at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s investigative projects Skhemy and Sistema examined the private correspondence of Russian General Roman Demurchiev. They found that he had boasted to close contacts and fellow service members about torturing, executing, and desecrating the bodies of Ukrainian military personnel, including prisoners of war. The archive spans 2022 to 2024 and reveals not only Demurchiev’s own conduct but also the complicity of his superiors, up to the commander of a combined-arms army numbering in the tens of thousands. Meduza summarizes RFE/RL’s findings.