🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump is more popular with young people than most other demographics.

🇺🇸⚡️- CNN will announce layoffs tomorrow for hundreds of employees. This comes after the company lost a landmark defamation lawsuit.

🇾🇪⚡- Clashes between Ansarullah and the Southern Transitional Council west of Taizz, Yemen.

🇱🇾⚡- Tripoli-based Government of National Unity has begun evacuating al-Riqata, west of Tripoli, Libya.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡️- President Trump has re-designated Ansarullah (the Houthis) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO.)

🇸🇦🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The Kingdom strongly condemns and denounces the attack launched by the Israeli occupation forces on the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank," - Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's first call was to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Rubio promised Israel of 'steadfast support' and also congratulated Israel on their 'success against Hamas and Hezbollah'.

The Iranian Embassy in Kabul has announced that Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi is set to imminently visit Afghanistan, making it the first trip by a high-ranking Iranian official to Afghanistan since the Taliban's takeover in 2021.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡- The Aden-based and UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, STC, welcomes Trump's decision to re-designate Ansarullah as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. The STC released a statement saying it was "an important step to deal with the threat to regional and international security".

🇬🇪🇪🇪⚡- "The Russian-backed Georgian Dream party is using rigged elections to establish complete control over state institutions and suppress the opposition and civil society," - Statement released by Estonia's Parliament.

🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah have captured al-Jabara from the Saudi-backed Coalition Forces - Ad-Dali direction, Yemen.

This marks the first significant change along the frontline in this direction in years. The large town, which fell overnight, had been under siege for over a month, with the news confirmed by several Southern Transitional Council outlets.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- The Israeli Security Cabinet will meet tonight to discuss whether the IDF stays or withdraws from southern Lebanon.

🏳🇵🇰⚡- Afghanistan's Taliban government released a report accusing Pakistan of training Islamic State of Khorasan, ISKP, terrorists.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇵🇱⚡- "I want Putin to beg Ukraine and its allies for peace," - Andrzej Duda, President of Poland.

🇷🇺⚡- "Putin will hold an important international telephone conversation today," - Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin Spokesman.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "We don't see anything new in Trump's threats to impose sanctions if a deal on Ukraine is not reached. You know that Trump, in the first iteration of his presidency, was the American president who most often resorted to sanctions methods. He likes these methods, at least he liked them during his first presidency," - Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin Spokesman.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "Trump's data on the USSR's losses of almost 60 million lives in World War II do not correspond to reality. The USSR paid the highest price for the victory over fascism, the USA helped, but for them it was just business," - Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin Spokesman.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- "Russia continues contacts with the Syrian leadership on all current issues," - Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin Spokesman.

🇷🇺⚡- Georgy Ivanov, Russia's General Staff official, proposed recognizing the international waters of Laptev Sea and Kara Sea as "internal water bodies of Russia".

🇺🇦🇸🇾🇨🇭⚡- The Foreign Ministers of Ukraine and Syria met on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.