The House of Representatives has ratified defence agreements between the Indonesian government and the Chinese and Germany governments, passing two bills into law on Tuesday. One of the new laws ratifies a defence agreement previously achieved between the government of former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and its Chinese counterpart in Beijing on Nov. 27, 2007. The other law ratifies a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Indonesia-Germany defence cooperation signed in Berlin by Defence Deputy Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin and Germany’s State Secretary at the Defence Ministry Rüdiger Wolf in February 2012. The defence cooperation between Indonesia and Germany would include military training, research and development, disaster management, military logistics, healthcare and peacekeeping missions.

Uganda is headed for a Supreme Court battle over the results of the February 18 presidential poll as tensions there continue to climb. Former Prime Minister Mbabazi's lawyers managed to submit their petition to the Supreme Court on the first of March. The petition lays out 28 alleged irregularities including bribery, late arrival of voting materials, inconsistencies with voting cards and election papers the opposition says were pre-checked and stuffed into boxes. Second place finisher Kizza Besigye was not able to get a petition to the courts by the deadline. His camp says repeated arrests and detention by security forces made it impossible for Besigye to file a challenge.

The so called ''Super Tuesday'' during which primaries of both the Democrats and the Republicans took place in 11 states have been won by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Following earlier wins both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton managed to secure victories in 7 out of 11 states. In the Republican's race, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio followed with 3 and 1 state victories respectively, while the only contender to Hillary Clinton trailed his rival with 4 states. Later on during the day, Ben Carson speculated on dropping his bid for the Republican Nomination. Earlier Republican former contender Chris Christie surprisingly officially endorsed Donald Trump. After their victories, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump aimed at each other instead of their Democrat and Republican collegues. The popularity of Donald Trump is becoming a headache for the Republican establishment that would rather see a more moderate candidate win.

On 29 February 2016 the existence of a letter by Greek-Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiades has been confirmed in which he asked the Dutch EU Presidency to make Turkish an official language of the EU. The symbolic move comes as relations between the Turkish and Greek parts of Cyprus have been getting closer recently. During a historic meeting earlier on 21 January 2016, they stated their commitment to finally unify the country in 2016. If realised, Turkish could become the 25th official EU language and would increase the amount of language combinations from 552 to 600, and increase estimated translation costs from €450 million to €487 million. 

The European Commission and Canada have agreed to change the so called Investor-State Disupute Settlement (ISDS) clause of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). The Agreement was already concluded back in August 2014, but following increased critique of the bigger Transatlantic Trade and Investment Pact (TTIP) Agreement with the US that included a similar clause, the risk arose that the deal with Canada would be struck down in the European Parliament and that the TTIP would suffer a similiar fate in a future vote. The ''disputed'' clause was said according to critiques to give big companies to much power and take away power from states. Both the the mainstream left wing and right wing parties of the European Parliament welcomed the deal, although there is still critique that despite the changes, big companies are still given to much power due to this deal.

Mauricio Macri, the new centre-right President of Argentina following the Presidential Elections at the end of last year, has made a historic deal worth $4,65 Billion, after long negotiations with four big US hedgefunds. Argentina never managed to strike a deal with them, following its economic collapse and bankruptcy back in 2001. Nestor Kirchner that got elected in 2003, and his wife Cristina Kirchner that got elected in 2007 and ruled until the end of 2015, always refused to reach a deal, which made it difficult for Argentina to attract foreign capital, and became more and more isolated economically. It is the first big victory of the new President, following the end of the Kirchners rule. The agreement now has to be agreed on by the Congress of Argentina.