🇺🇸⚡️- 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.

🇨🇳⚡- "Transformation not seen in a century is accelerating across the world. With imminent tariff wars and trade wars, tug of wars, and intense rivalries. Global governance is undergoing profound adjustments. Human society has once again come to a critical crossroads," - Ding Xuexiang, Chinese Vice-Premier, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

🇨🇳⚡- "At present, some international hotspot issues and conflicts are dragging on and having a serious impact on global peace and stability," - Ding Xuexiang, Chinese Vice-Premier, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

🇺🇳🇮🇷⚡- "I hope the Iranians understand that it is important to make it clear once and for all that they would renounce to have nuclear weapons," - Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

🇺🇳🇮🇷⚡- "The Iranians must engage constructively with the other countries of the region to have a new security architecture in that region, one that respects independence, territorial integrity and non-interference," - Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

🇮🇶⚡️- Iraq's parliament has lowered its legal age of marriage to 9 years old for girls following the passage of a bill sponsored by some of Iraq's major Shiite parties.

Iraqi parliamentarians defended the bill as a means to align Iraq with Islamic principles and reduce Western influence on Iraqi society and culture.

🇮🇶⚡️- Alia Nassif, a member of Iraq's parliament and a member of the Shia State of Law coalition, says the law will go to Iraq's federal court due to the law not meeting the minimum number of MPs to pass the law.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇦🇿⚡- "Evidence from the [AZAL plane crash] site is clear, it's crucial to pressure Russia to tell the truth. We also discussed future bilateral relations, including increasing trade and energy cooperation. We deeply appreciate Azerbaijan's support for Ukraine," - Volodymyr Zelenskyi, during a meeting with Azerbaijan's President, Ilham Aliyev, on the sidelines at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

🇸🇾🇨🇭⚡- Syrian Foreign Minister, Asaad al-Shaibani, arrives in Davos, Switzerland. This marks Syria's first ever participation in the World Economic Forum.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇬🇱⚡- "Russia is concerned over the statements about the possible inclusion of Greenland into the United States, it is important to prevent violations of international law," - Valentina Matvienko, Speaker of the Russian Federation Council.

🇨🇦 ⚡️ - Amazon is pulling out of Quebec due to union/language policies

🇺🇸⚡️- Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht walking out of U.S. Penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona a free man after President Trump's pardon.

🇺🇸⚡️- Tom Homan, the "border tsar" of the Trump administration, says that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has detained 308 illegal immigrants on the first day of Trump's administration.

🇺🇸 - Your "mass deportations," sir.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has instructed the Justice Department and DHS to rescind protections for trans prisoners and immigrant detainees under the Prison Rape Elimination Act.