🇳🇪🇧🇯⚡- Benin Foreign Ministry summons Niger's charge d'affaires. The decision comes after Niger's military junta accused Benin of 'supporting terrorism'.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Negotiations to end the war cannot take place because Russia has not paid a sufficient price for starting this war. There is a lot of talk about negotiations - peace agreements, but this is just an illusion and nothing more," - Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to the head of Ukraine's Presidential Office.

🇸🇾⚡- Al-Bab News, SNA outlet, says the SNA is taking heavy casualties after violent clashes with the SDF near the Tishrin Dam, Manbij direction, northern Syria.

🇺🇸🏴⚡️- Bourbon Street in New Orleans has reopened following yesterday's terrorist attack.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Biden discussed plans to strike Iran nuclear sites if Tehran speeds toward bomb." - Axios.

🇺🇸🏴⚡️- "Shamsud-Din Jabbar [the NOLA attacker] joined ISIS in Summer 2024." - Federal Bureau of Investigation.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli airstrikes against Aleppo, HTS-administered Syria.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡️- Multiple violent explosions in Aleppo and the surrounding countryside.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "U.S. intelligence sources assess that Iran may have already made the decision to develop a limited nuclear arsenal in the short term." - Axios.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli airstrikes targeting research centers all around Aleppo.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- A Syrian missile depot in Aleppo was also struck by Israel, as secondary explosions can be seen and heard.

🇸🇾 - Footage showing Syrian National Army members in western Aleppo looting villages and shooting at the women recording.

🇸🇾⚡- Clashes between pro-Assad resistance cells and the new Syrian government forces in Karnak, Tartus, western Syria.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Jake Sullivan presented Biden with options for a potential U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, if the Iranians move towards a nuclear weapon before Jan. 20," - Axios.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "A U.S. strike on Iran's nuclear program during the lame duck period would be an enormous gamble from a president who promised he would not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, but who would also risk handing a fresh conflict over to his successor," - Axios.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Putin is afraid to talk to me and negotiate, if negotiations do start, it will be a strategic defeat for Russia," - Volodymyr Zelenskyi, President of Ukraine.

🇮🇷🇸🇦⚡- Iran summons the Saudi ambassador to protest the execution of six Iranian citizens in Saudi Arabia who were accused of drug smuggling.

🇰🇷⚡- BREAKING: Seoul Metropolitan Police begin surrounding the Presidential Palace as they prepare to impeach President Yoon.

🇰🇷⚡- Public Prosecutor's Office vehicles are at the entrance to the Presidential Palace.

🇰🇷⚡- 3,000 riot police are deployed at the scene.

🇰🇷⚡- The Presidential Security Services have blocked the entrance to the Presidential Palace.