🇫🇷🇷🇺⚡- "We will not tolerate any violation.

The French Navy boarded an oil tanker coming from Russia, subject to international sanctions and suspected of flying a false flag.

The operation was conducted on the high seas in the Mediterranean, with the support of several of our allies. It was carried out in strict compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea," - Emmanuel Macron, President of France.

🇫🇷🇷🇺⚡- "French authorities did not notify us [Russia] about the detention of an oil tanker that was on its way from Murmansk, northern Russia.

The Russian Embassy in France is checking whether there are Russian citizens among the crew of the tanker detained in the Mediterranean," - TASS, Russian outlet.

🇫🇷⚡️- France's National Assembly voted in favor of registering the Muslim Brotherhood on the European Union's list of terrorist organizations.

🇺🇸⚡️- Two New York Police Department officers were refused treatment at NYU yesterday after nurses and staff mistook them for ICE agents.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇩🇿⚡️- After a long-winded court battle, Mahmoud Khalil, a Colombian University grad-student, head of Columbia’s pro-Palestine protests, and detained by ICE last year, will be deported to Algeria. - NYP.

🇺🇸⚡️- “President Donald Trump said Thursday that another government shutdown is likely as Congress approaches its Jan. 30 funding deadline, even as members work to hammer out funding agreements.

“I think we have a problem, because I think we’re going to probably end up in another Democrat shutdown,” Trump said in an interview with Fox Business on the sidelines of Davos.” - POLITICO.

🇺🇲⚡- “Multiple sources familiar with the proceedings confirm a Minnesota federal magistrate judge refused to sign a complaint bringing charges against Don Lemon in connection with the church protest on Sunday.” - CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane.

🇺🇸🇬🇱⚡- "President Trump and NATO Secretary General Rutte reached a verbal agreement on Greenland. The agreement will see the US-Denmark 1951 deal upgraded, granting increased US military rights.

The agreement would also see an increase of the rest of NATO's role in the Arctic security, and block Russian and Chinese investments," - CNN.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "US and Ukraine have discussed a possible energy ceasefire to Russia. Under the idea, Russia would halt air strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, in exchange for Ukraine stopping attacks on Russian oil refineries and Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers.

Vladimir Putin is seen as unlikely to agree because strikes on Ukrainian energy networks are viewed by the Kremlin as a key source of pressure and leverage, especially during winter.

US, Ukraine and Russia are set for trilateral talks in the United Arab Emirates," - Financial Times.

🇺🇸 - Approximate location of the USS Abraham Lincoln, CVN-72, and its carrier strike group:

As of 18:00 UTC the carrier group is off the coast of India's Maharashtra region, and will enter the CENTOM area of responsibility in the next few hours.

The estimation is based on a carrier's average speed in open waters – 30 knots. If it arrives earlier, it would indicate the carrier was 'speeding'.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is holding a mini-cabinet meeting to discuss the country's military readiness.

🇺🇸⚡️- The White House is posting AI-edited images of the people being arrested, increasing the risk that a judge or jury could dismiss the arrests.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "We have a lot of ships on the way to Iran, there's an aircraft carrier on the way there. I don't want anything to happen but we'll have to see what happens." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "We have a massive armada heading in direction of Iran." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- Special Envoy Witkoff and Kushner have arrived at the Kremlin to meet Russian President Putin, Presidential Foreign Policy Aide Ushakov, and Russian Envoy Dmitriev.

🇺🇸⚡- "RECORD NUMBERS ALL OVER THE PLACE! SHOULD I TRY FOR A FOURTH TERM?" - President Donald Trump.

🇬🇧🇶🇦⚡- UK's Ministry of Defense reports the deployment of additional Typhoon fighter jets to Qatar's al-Udeid Air Base amid the regional tensions with Iran.