Inflation in Europe eased to an annual 2.4% in February, supporting the case for another interest rate cut from the European Central Bank – but leaving open how far the central bank will go in lowering borrowing costs for an economy that’s still struggling to show robust growth. The February figure for the 20 countries that use the euro currency was down from 2.5% in January as energy inflation dwindled and major economy France saw a rate of only 0.9%, the European Union’s statistical agency Eurostat reported Monday. The lower consumer price inflation figure supports the view that the ECB is succeeding in its battle to get inflation back to its target of 2% and can focus on supporting tepid growth.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet with King Charles III, the country’s head of state, on Monday where he will discuss U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to make Canada the 51st state. The king has come under criticism in Canada for being silent about Trump’s threats to annex Canada. Trudeau said in London on Sunday he will discuss matters of importance to Canadians with Charles and said “nothing seems more important to Canadians right now than standing up for our sovereignty and our independence as a nation.” Charles is the head of state in Canada, which is a member of the British Commonwealth of former colonies. Overall, the antiroyal movement in Canada is small, but the silence of the monarch on Trump’s threats have spurred talk in recent days.

In his most difficult moments – and who hasn’t had such moments since the outbreak of the war in Israel – Israel’s outgoing ambassador to Washington Mike Herzog drew strength from the Mekoros HaKedoshim, Yisrael Hayom reported. In the most alarming hours, he would turn to Perek 83 in Tehillim: “G-d, do not be silent to You, do not be quiet and do not be still, O G-d… They said, ‘Come, and let us annihilate them from the nation, and the name of Israel shall no longer be remembered.'” He knew the second source from his father’s house, or to be precise, from his grandfather. In the spring of 1941, the Nazi army stood at the gates of Eretz Yisrael and there was real fear over the continued existence of the Jewish yishuv.

In a striking shift from his long-standing reputation as a vocal vaccine skeptic, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is urging Americans to get vaccinated against measles as a severe outbreak spreads across Texas. In an opinion piece published on Fox News, Kennedy, once one of the nation’s most prominent anti-vaccine figures, warned of the dangers posed by measles and emphasized the importance of immunization in curbing the current outbreak. “The measles outbreak in Texas is a call to action for all of us to reaffirm our commitment to public health,” Kennedy wrote, citing 146 confirmed cases since late January, primarily in the South Plains region. The outbreak has already claimed the life of a school-aged child—the first measles-related fatality in the U.S.

Hassan Nasrallah’s son Jawad and daughter Zaynab discussed their father’s final days in an appearance on Al-Manar TV (Hizbullah-Lebanon) on February 28, 2025, describing him as depressed after the September 2024 pager attack. Jawad said that he became a changed man following the killing of Hizbullah military leader Fuad Shukr and the pager attack, feeling spiritless and sad, seeking encouragement. Zaynab shared that her mother told her that Nasrallah was crying after the attack. Jawad Nasrallah: “After the killing of Hajj Mohsen [Fuad Shukr], then the pager attack, and until his final days, he was spiritless and sad. You could feel that he was depressed. He was not desperate, but you could see that he was hurt, you could see that he was slaughtered from his neck to his heart.

Chinese manufacturers reported an uptick in orders in February as importers rushed to beat higher U.S. tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, as a Chinese state media report said that Beijing was considering ways to retaliate. Trump earlier imposed a tariff of 10% on imports from China and that will rise to 20% beginning Tuesday. He also ended the “de minimis” loophole that exempted imports worth less than $800 from tariffs, in a blow to companies whose online sales direct to consumers had soared in recent years. The Global Times, a newspaper of China’s ruling Communist Party, said Monday that Beijing was studying both tariffs and non-tariff moves to counter Trump’s higher tariffs.

A former Iranian foreign minister who was key to the country’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers reportedly tendered his resignation on Monday from the government of reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian, caving in to pressure from hard-liners. The resignation of Mohammad Javad Zarif signaled Tehran’s rapid retreat from its outreach to the West as U.S. President Donald Trump intensifies sanctions on the country. Zarif has served as vice president to Pezeshkian and has long been a target of hard-liners within the country’s theocracy. He had tried to resign once before and it remained unclear whether Pezeshkian accepted his attempt to leave the government this time.

The U.S. Treasury Department announced it will not enforce a Biden-era small business rule intended to curb money laundering and shell company formation. In a Sunday evening announcement, Treasury said in a news release that it will not impose penalties now or in the future if companies fail to register for the agency’s beneficial ownership information database that was created during the Biden administration. Despite efforts by small businesses to undue the rule in the courts, it remains in effect. On Sunday, President Donald Trump on his Truth Social media site praised the suspension of enforcement of the rule and said the database is “outrageous and invasive.” “This Biden rule has been an absolute disaster for Small Businesses Nationwide,” he said.

The U.K.’s data protection watchdog said Monday that it’s investigating how TikTok uses the personal information of teenagers to deliver content recommendations to them when they use the social media platform. The Information Commissioner’s Office said that there are growing concerns around how social media platforms were using data generated by children’s online activity to power their recommendation algorithms, and the potential for young people to see inappropriate or harmful content as a result. The regulator said that it wanted to ensure the robustness of TikTok’s safety procedures when it comes to using the personal information of teens ranging in age from 13 to 17. “It’s what they’re collecting, it’s how they work,” information commissioner John Edwards said.