🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡️- Piracy incident reported by UKMTO in the Red Sea, near Hudaydah.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- American airstrikes against Iranian-backed positions in Deir Ez-Zor, Syria.

🇮🇱 - Times of Israel, today.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡️- US CENTCOM reports that a Singapore-flagged Maersk merchant vessel was struck by a Houthi missile. No injuries were reported, and responding naval vessels assessed that the ship was still seaworthy.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡️- AFP reports that 10 Houthis were killed by American strikes against their boats in port at Hudaydah.

— 🇺🇸/🇬🇧/🇾🇪 BREAKING: The United States and the United Kingdom are planning to launch a wave of airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen – The Times

Under the plans the U.K. would join with the U.S. and possibly another European country to unleash a salvo of missiles against pre-planned targets, either in the sea or in Yemen itself, where the militants are based.

It is understood that 'an unprecedented statement' is dur to be released by the U.K. and the U.S. in the coming hours which will warn the Houthis to stop attacking commercial vessels or face the military might of the West – The Times

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇩🇰 - Danish queen Margaret II will abdicate the throne.

🇮🇷🇾🇪⚡️- The 94th Naval Flotilla of the Iranian Navy has entered the Red Sea near Yemen.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Hamas has launched a massive rocket barrage towards Tel Aviv and Sderot, right as the New Year has come.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Rocket alerts across all of central Israel.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Israeli media reporting 20 missile strikes in central Israel, mostly heavy M90 rockets fired by Hamas just moments ago.

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- Multiple Israeli aircraft airborne over northern Israel and southern Lebanon.

🎉 - Happy New Year!

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡️- Clashes between American warships and Houthi gunboats in the Red Sea.

🇮🇱🇸🇾⚡️- Red alerts in southern Golan. Rockets inbound from Syria.

🇯🇵⚡️- A 7.5 magnitude earthquake has struck western Japan, followed by tsunami waves.

🇮🇱⚡️ - Israel's Supreme Court strikes down Netanyahu's planned judicial reform.

🇺🇸⚡️- The copyrights for Mickey Mouse have expired, bringing Mickey Mouse into the public domain.

🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 - BRICS has officially welcomed its new members:

🇸🇦 - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
🇪🇬 - Arab Republic of Egypt
🇦🇪 - United Arab Emirates
🇮🇷 - Islamic Republic of Iran
🇪🇹 - Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

🇰🇷⚡️- Lee Jae-Myung, the leader of the liberal opposition Democratic Party of Korea, as well as a member of the National Assembly, has been stabbed in the neck during a press conference in Busan.

🇰🇷⚡️- Footage of his stabbing.