WATCH: Argentinians are protesting President Javier Milei after he passed sweeping anti-worker reforms, extending the workday by 50% and allowing companies to compensate employees with food and lodging instead of wages.

NEW: Air India Flight AI-171 crashed 32 seconds after takeoff because both engine fuel control switches were moved from RUN to CUTOFF seconds after liftoff, cutting fuel supply and shutting down both engines.

Investigators found no mechanical failure in the aircraft. The preliminary report states the switches were moved sequentially about one second apart, starving the engines of fuel.

Roughly 10 seconds later, the switches were moved back to RUN and the engines attempted an automatic restart, but the aircraft was already too low to recover.

Cockpit audio reportedly captured one pilot asking, “Why did you cut off?” with the other replying, “I did not do so.”

India has requested 31 additional Rafale Marine (Rafale-M) fighter jets from France.

This would be on top of the 26 Rafale-M already ordered in April 2025.

If approved, the Indian Navy would operate 57 carrier-based Rafale-M fighters.

That number would exceed France’s own naval Rafale fleet (around 41 aircraft).

German Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil:

Serving the country and joining the Bundeswehr does not mean going to war.

Rather, it means doing everything possible to ensure that Germany is strong within a strong Europe — and doing everything we can to make sure that Putin does not attack us.

I believe that Putin responds to strength, and a strong Bundeswehr is probably one of the best arguments for never having to go to war.

Polish President Nawrocki:

I am a big supporter of Poland joining a nuclear project.

I am talking about the fact that the path toward building Polish nuclear potential, with full respect for all international regulations, is a direction we should follow

Polish President Nawrocki:

I believe that Poland’s presence in the Board of Peace would bring benefits to Poland.

We would be the voice of the entire region.

Polish President Nawrocki:

For many years — including during Prime Minister Tusk’s governments — we were a vassal of Berlin or Brussels...

Japanese Foreign Ministry:

A Chinese participant made inappropriate remarks regarding the security policies of the Japanese government at the Munich Security Conference on February 14.

Responding to the statement, Foreign Minister MOTEGI Toshimitsu made his case clear at another session of the Conference, followed by a stern demarche against the Chinese side through diplomatic channels.

Rubio:

There is no more important obligation of any government than the ability to protect your own people and your own nation.

This is why, by the way, we talk about the importance of our partners having capabilities in NATO.

Every time we say this, people, you know, they go crazy. They think, oh, that means you're going to abandon NATO, you're going to abandon your allies.

I think the point we're making is that the stronger our allies are, the stronger we are collectively.

Rubio to Europe:

We don't want you to be dependent on us. We are not asking you to be a vassal of the United States.

We want to be your partner.

Rubio on Iran:

We're dealing with radical Shia clerics.

We're dealing with people who make geopolitical decisions on the basis of pure theology.

No one's ever been able to do a successful deal with Iran, but we're going to try.

Rubio on Iran:

We are focused on negotiations. If that changes, it'll be obvious to everyone, and obviously, whatever the law requires us to do, we'll do.

Rubio on Syria:

We had two choices in Syria. Choice number one was to let the place fall apart into 18 different pieces: long-term civil war, instability, mass migration, a playground for terrorists, ISIS running all over the place, Iran getting back in. That was choice number one.

Choice number two is to try to see if it was possible to work with these interim authorities and President al-Sharaa and with his team. Guess what? We chose number two because it made sense.

Now, is it going to be easy? No. Is it going to be difficult? Absolutely. Is it going to have ups and downs and good days and bad days? No doubt about it.

Rubio on Syria:

When this situation erupted in the Northeast of Syria, Trump engaged personally, not once but twice, with al-Sharaa, and he said, “Stop the fighting so that we can move the ISIS prisoners that are there.”

Thousands of ISIS prisoners who, by the way, could have broken out and created havoc and chaos. “Stop the fighting so that we can move these ISIS prisoners and so that you can—we have more time to work on this reintegration, the integration of the Kurds into the national Syrian forces.” And you know, al-Sharaa did it.

Now, he's kept his word up to this point. Obviously, he has to keep doing that, but that's what we've been able to achieve. We've been able to get him to agree to do that, and that's been important because we've been able to move those prisoners into Iraq and out of harm's way so that we don't have a massive jailbreak and 4,000 or 5,000 ISIS killers running crazy all over the place and threatening us in the future.

It's given us time to work on this integration agreement, which they have agreed to between the Kurds and the Syrian authorities in Damascus. Now, you have to implement that agreement. That's not going to be easy. There are other agreements that they need to reach with the Druze, the Bedouins, the Alawites, with all the elements of a very diverse society in Syria.

We think that outcome, as difficult as it has been, is far better than a Syria that would have been broken up into 18 pieces, with all kinds of fighting going on, all kinds of mass migration. So we're very positive about that.

Rubio on Syria:

We like the trajectory. We have to keep it on that trajectory.

We've got good agreements in place. The key now is implementation, and we'll be very involved in that regard.

SDF's Mazloum Abdi:

We want to have a local Kurdish administration. Whatever the name may be.

A Brooklyn drone manufacturer that supplies Israel was forced out of the city-owned Brooklyn Navy Yard six weeks after Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp., whose board is appointed by the Mayor, declined to renew Easy Aerial’s lease.

Source: New York Post

Russia's Medvedev:

The little green insect gets to stay alive only as long as it keeps dismantling country 404.