🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump fulfils promise to Libertarian Party voters by pardoning Ross Ulbricht.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has banned the usage of LGBT and BLM flags on Government buildings, Embassies, and Military Bases across the world.

🇮🇱⚡- "The Chief of Shin Bet may announce his resignation in the coming days," - Channel 14.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "If Trump has plans to expand at Russia’s expense, why not?" - Volodymyr Zelenskyi, President of Ukraine, on Trump's expansion plans.

🇺🇳🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "There is a risk that Israel will seek to annex the West Bank, which is a complete violation of international law," - Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations.

🇺🇦🇦🇿⚡- "Azerbaijan and Ukraine are strategic partners with common goals and objectives," - Ukraine's Embassy in Baku.

🇬🇧🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- Britain has urged its citizens to refrain from travelling to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border area.

🇵🇸🇪🇬🇮🇱⚡- Israel and Egypt agree to hand over the Rafah crossing to the Palestinian Authority, PA. The PA will therefore operate the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.

However, there is still no agreement on the Philadelphi Corridor.

🇺🇸⚡️- Tom Homan says "mass deportations are officially underway," saying that ICE is going into sanctuary cities.

As of now, there is no proof of any operations underway.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "Israel said it will maintain control of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip during the first phase of the ceasefire with Hamas." - Associated Press.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump says he supports Elon Musk acquiring TikTok, as it only has 90 days to be sold to an American company before being fully restricted.

🇺🇸⚡️- Silk Road founder and libertarian drug trafficker Ross Ulbricht has been released from prison following President Trump's commutation of his sentence.

🇮🇷🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "We didn’t know about October 7. Actually, we were supposed to have a meeting with the Americans on JCPOA renewal on October 9. [But] this was undermined and destroyed by this [Hamas October 7th] operation," - Mohammad Javad Zarif, Vice President for Strategic Affairs and former Foreign Minister of Iran, blasts Hamas for sabotaging Iran-US nuclear talks at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland.

🇦🇲🇨🇭⚡- Armenia's Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, to travel to Davos, Switzerland, tomorrow to attend the World Economic Forum.

🇺🇸🇦🇿⚡- "During the Biden-Blinken administration, the United States showed bias against Azerbaijan , as a result of which bilateral relations were drawn into a crisis," - Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

🇾🇪⚡️- Ansarullah has released the crew of the Galaxy Leader, a vessel Ansarullah seized in November 2023.

The release of this crew was facilitated by Oman, at the request of Hamas.

🇷🇺🇧🇾⚡- "Belarus not only has a problem, but has an opportunity to put pressure on Putin as well. Belarus is the weakest point for Putin, and by helping Belarusians to gain our country back, it will be the biggest sanction on Putin ever," - Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarusian opposition leader, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

🇸🇴⚡- "The civil war has ended in Somalia," - Hassan Sheikh, President of Somalia, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.