Israeli soldiers escort Israeli settlers through the Old City of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, Feb. 14, 2026. Mosab Shawer/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty

Israel's government has approved a process to register land in the occupied West Bank as "state property," drawing condemnation from Arab nations and critics who said it would accelerate annexation of the Palestinian territory.

Israel's foreign ministry said the measure, approved late Sunday, would enable "transparent and thorough clarification of rights to resolve legal disputes" and was needed after unlawful land registration in areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority.

But Egypt, Qatar and Jordan criticized the move as illegal under international law.

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Presidents Day, which falls on Monday, Feb. 16, this year, was established to honor the birthday of the nation's first president, George Washington. The official name of the holiday is Washington's Birthday, although it's now more commonly referred to as Presidents Day.

While most grocery stores and food establishments will remain open, some businesses will be closed and services suspended on Presidents Day, which is one of 12 federal holidays. See what's open and closed below.

Is Target open on Presidents Day?
Target will be open during regular operating hours, a spokesperson confirmed with CBS News.

Which grocery stores are closed on Presidents Day?
Major grocery stores, including Aldi, Food Lion, Giant Food, Trader Joe's and Wegmans, will be open on Monday, February 16.

Are fast-food chains open on Presidents Day?
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The Gunners were easy winners on Sunday in the FA Cup and showed off a wrinkle that can help them navigate their latest injury crisis


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It was a tactical gambit only brought about by an injury in the warm-up. It was one that Mikel Arteta had had more than six years to play about with, something he had only done fleetingly. And it was the first look that he moved on from with a halftime substitution.

Basically, Bukayo Saka's dalliance with central midfield in this 4-0 shellacking of Wigan Athletic is probably just going to be one of those curios that is left to gather dust in the vault. Mikel Arteta's electric Nebraska, if you will. And maybe the boss has good reason not to indulge the wishes of his fanbase. Simplicity is so often the greatest conduit towards creativity. If your songs sound best with guitar and harmonica, play them that way. If you...More

These days, Stephen A. Smith is everywhere – on the sidelines, at the games, and of course all over TV. His swaggering sports talk has made him a superstar at ESPN, a modern-day Howard Cosell with a multi-million dollar media empire.

Smith begins each weekday morning with his popular cable show, "First Take." The set is his court. "We do want to one-up one another along the way," he said, "and when you want to one-up somebody, that's competition, and that's what makes it go

"The key, for us, is to be authentic; don't fake it" he said. "I'm talking about making sure that it's not choreographed. You're not just saying something just to be saying it."

Sports fans like to keep the conversation going. "Remember, the typical stars, they people want your picture, they want your autograph," said Smith. "Me, they want a debate. They want the pictures, too, but they want a debate. There's no such thing as, 'Love you,...More

Australian police on Monday appealed for the urgent return of an 85-year-old man kidnapped in what they said was a case of mistaken identity. Police received reports early Friday that octogenarian Chris Baghsarian had been carried from his home by three intruders in Sydney's North Ryde suburb.

The kidnappers had been targeting an individual linked to the western Sydney-based Alameddine crime network, national broadcaster ABC said. Baghsarian is a grandfather who is "not involved in any criminal world," Robbery and Serious Crime Squad Commander Andrew Marks told journalists on Monday.

"I'm a million percent confident they have the wrong person," he said. "It's not an instance where they are randomly taking people for the sake of it. They were intending to take somebody, but have taken the wrong person."

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Late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny's mother Lyudmila Navalnaya touches his portrait at his grave, two years after his death, at the Borisovskoye Cemetery in Moscow, Feb. 16, 2026. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP

The mother of deceased Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny said Monday she felt vindicated by a European assessment that her son died of poisoning in a remote penal colony. She called for justice as Russia's government rejected the European claim, the Trump administration said there was no reason to doubt it, and the late dissident's supporters marked two years since his death.

Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin's fiercest domestic opponent, died in an Arctic prison colony in February 2024 while serving a 19-year sentence.

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On Valentine's Day at the Milan Cortina Olympics, a renewed supply of free condoms for the athlete villages was promised by the organizers after going short during the week.

"We can confirm that condom supplies in the Olympic Villages were temporarily depleted due to higher-than-anticipated demand," the Italian organizing committee said in a statement Saturday. "Additional supplies are being delivered and will be distributed across all villages between today and Monday."

Providing condoms for athletes has been a gift from organizers — and a constant fascination to the world — for decades.

While 300,000 condoms were provided for more than 10,500 athletes at the 2024 Paris Summer Games, the original stock was much lower for these Winter Games.

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U.S. military forces boarded another sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the vessel from the Caribbean Sea in an effort to target illicit oil connected to Venezuela, the Pentagon said Sunday.

Venezuela had faced U.S. sanctions on its oil for several years, relying on a shadow fleet of falsely flagged tankers to smuggle crude into global supply chains. President Trump ordered a quarantine of sanctioned tankers in December to pressure then-President Nicolás Maduro before Maduro was apprehended in January during an American military operation.

Several tankers fled the Venezuelan coast in the wake of the raid, including the ship that was boarded in the Indian Ocean. The Defense Department said in a post on X that U.S. forces boarded the Veronica III, conducting "a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding."

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