• The Turkish and Azerbaijani governments have agreed to accelerate the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline project.
• OPEC will likely decide at its meeting to maintain its current production policies, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zangeneh said.
• Turkey has granted France authorization to use Turkish airspace in the fight against Islamic State militants.
• The German parliament voted overwhelmingly to join the 60-nation combat operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
• The foreign ministers of Turkey and Russia met on the sidelines of a European security meeting today in Belgrade.
• At least 16 people were killed after unknown attackers hurled a Molotov cocktail into a Cairo nightclub.
• Ailing Algerian President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika is in France to undergo medical tests.
• Under pressure from EU member states and threatened with suspension from the Schengen passport-free zone, Greece agreed to cooperate with EU border agency Frontex for an operation at the Greek-Macedonian border.
• The European Central Bank pledged to continue its quantitative easing efforts to the tune of 60 billion euro ($648 billion) per month until March 2017 or beyond, ECB President Mario Draghi said.
• Danes voted against deeper EU integration in a referendum when they rejected an arrangement to opt in to EU Justice and Home Affairs rules.
• Colombia's lower house approved a proposal to ratify an eventual peace agreement with the FARC via a peace referendum.
• Brazilian leaders will meet Feb. 10 to discuss Bolivian President Evo Morales' plan to increase natural gas prices by 78.25 percent.
• Ecuador's National Assembly approved a constitutional amendment removing term limits on the presidency and other elected positions.
• Japan launched a study on introducing a state-of-the-art U.S. missile defense system, known as Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), to guard against North Korean ballistic missile.
