📸 Ukraine’s new energy minister speaks about the country’s energy crisis to the nearly empty parliament chamber.

Japanese Defense Minister Koizumi became dehydrated, was checked by a medic after his military workout with Hegseth.

Russia’s ambassador to Denmark says Moscow has no claims on Greenland, flatly denying any interest in the territory.

Reporter: What did you mean by the new world order?

Carney: The architecture, the multilateral system is being eroded—undercut. The question is what gets built in its place...

CIA Director John Ratcliffe met Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas, the highest-ranking US official to visit since the U.S. kidnapped Maduro.

Source: NYT

A Danish school teacher:

I have followed the history of Indigenous peoples, and it was a nightmare to think: now it’s our turn.

Mossad Director David Barnea arrived in the U.S. Friday for consultations on Iran amid protests and possible U.S. military action.

He is set to meet White House envoy Steve Witkoff, who has been in contact with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

Source: Axios

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen:

The idea of a world where we have no alliances, where we have abrogated the international world order, is not safe. It’s not safe for Americans. It’s not safe for Danes.

And the only people who benefit from that sort of world are the autocrats in Moscow and Beijing and other autocrats around the world.

The US is urging allies to move faster on reducing reliance on Chinese critical minerals, planning a Feb. 4 meeting of foreign ministers to strengthen and diversify supply chains.

Source: Bloomberg

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Zelensky:

Until this morning, we had several systems without missiles.

As of today, thank God, this morning we received a serious package.

A BBC investigation reveals an unusual power struggle within the Taliban, pitting hardliners in Kandahar against more pragmatic leaders in Kabul.

A leaked audio clip shows supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada warning that internal divisions could bring down the Islamic Emirate. Despite official denials, the BBC identified two camps:

Kandahar loyalists enforcing strict isolationist rule, and a Kabul-based group seeking limited global engagement, economic stability, and modest easing of restrictions, including on women’s education.

The rift surfaced publicly in September 2025 when Akhundzada ordered a nationwide internet shutdown—an order later overturned by senior ministers Sirajuddin Haqqani, Abdul Ghani Baradar, and Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, in a rare act of defiance.

Source: BBC

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa will pay an official visit to Germany next Tuesday, where he is scheduled to meet with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

Source: SANA

Syrian Army forces are preparing limited strikes against towns occupied by the YPG/SDF terror group in northern and eastern Syria to compel them back to stalled negotiations.

Source: Reuters

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U.S. leadership approval across NATO has collapsed, down to 21%, the lowest since Trump’s first term.

Türkiye 🇹🇷 stands out as the only NATO country where approval of U.S. leadership rose sharply (+12 points).

Source: Gallup

Cuban military official at the march in honor of 32 Cuban soldiers killed in a U.S. attack on Venezuela:

"Only over my dead body will they take or assassinate President Maduro," Colonel Humberto Alfonso Roca Sánchez said.

NOTE: Colonel Sánchez was leading the Cuban soldiers protecting Maduro and his wife.

Cuban military official:

They (the U.S.) would have to kidnap millions or erase us from the map.

Even then, our ghosts would haunt them forever.

Cuban military official:

If we are attacked, we will fight with the same fierceness handed down through generations.

There will be no surrender.

There will be no concessions.

Spain's Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares Bueno:

Europe must move forward to have our security in our own hands.

Starting with intermediate steps such as the integration of the defense industry.

And the formation of a coalition of volunteers for the security of Europe with those who want to progress faster.

And that ends in a genuine European army.

X (Twitter) just crashed, again.

Humanitarian Aid In Sudan Is On The Brink Of Running Out

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Trump mocks Macron again:

I said, Emmanuel, "yes, Donald, Donald thank you so much for calling." I said you are not going to like this talk, you have to get your drug prices up, "no, no, no, no I will not do that!"

I said 100% you will do it.