Saturday

At least 33 people are injured, including three minors and five others seriously, in a bombing at a nightclub in Trujillo, Department of La Libertad, Peru. No group has yet claimed responsibility.(AP)

Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian apologizes for Iran's attacks on Middle East neighbors, although the military later continues the strikes. The governments of United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia report attacks targeting their territories. (AP) (TRT World) (France 24)

Iranian ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali says that Iran is ready for normal talks but also rejects the current position by the United States. (TASS)

Dubai International Airport suspends operations after an aerial interception near the airport during Iranian drone and missile attacks in the region. Airport operations later partially resume as the United Arab Emirates continues responding to the aerial threats. (AFP via Vanguard) (AFP via The Daily Star)

Kharkiv Oblast governor Oleh Syniehubov says that Russia has launched a barrage of drones and missiles on residential areas in Kharkiv, Ukraine, killing ten people, including two children and injuring ten, as well as damaging the city's power grids. (CTV News) (BBC News)

At least 4 people are killed, including two policemen, and more than 35 others are injured, including three seriously, in two separate bombings targeting a police patrol van and a market in Wana and Lakki Marwat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Arab News)

At least 45 bandits and three military personnel are killed in a clash between Nigerian Armed Forces troops and armed bandits in Dan Musa, Katsina State, Nigeria. (Reuters)

The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation announces a precautionary reduction in crude oil production and refining operations in response to Iranian attacks and threats to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. (AFP via Al-Ahram)

United States president Donald Trump meets at his Trump National Doral Miami with leaders from twelve American countries for the launching of a new multinational military cooperation initiative called Shield of the Americas, whose Special Envoy is Kristi Noem. (Bloomberg).

English child murderer Ian Huntley dies in hospital nine days after being attacked by a fellow inmate at HM Prison Frankland in County Durham, England. (BBC News)

Partial preliminary results in Nepal indicate that the Rastriya Swatantra Party won 60 of 165 first-past-the-post seats, while also leading in 61 other consituencies. In Jhapa 5, RSP prime ministerial candidate Balen Shah defeats former Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli. (AP) (The Himalayan Times)

Russia wins their first Winter Paralympics medal since 2014 after Varvara Voronchikhina and Alexey Bugaev each won a bronze medal in para alpine skiing. (The Moscow Times)