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NEW: Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will represent Türkiye at the “Board of Peace” meeting in Davos.

Türkiye has agreed to join the “Board of Peace.”

Reports claim senior PKK/SDF commander Sipan Hamo was killed by drones of unknown nationality in Qamishli that targeted a meeting last night.

He was seen as the de facto leader of the PKK’s Syria wing.

Just days earlier, he publicly said:

“Israel is a powerful state in the region, and we hope that the stance it has taken to protect the Druze will also be extended to include the Kurds.”

On French TV, judge Magali Lafourcade revealed that people sent by the U.S. Embassy under the Trump administration came to her office during Marine Le Pen’s embezzlement trial, allegedly trying to frame it as a “purely political trial” to block Le Pen from running for president.

“Very quickly the conversation turned to Marine Le Pen’s trial.”

“The idea was to find elements showing this was a purely political trial.”

“I was so taken aback… that I did something I never do with foreign diplomats: I informed the French Foreign Office.”

“There is a political project behind all of this.”

Canada’s military has modeled how it would respond to a hypothetical U.S. invasion, after President Donald Trump publicly talked about the country as a “51st state.”

Planners assumed U.S. forces could overrun Canada in days, so defense would rely on asymmetric tactics like ambushes, sabotage, drones, hit-and-run, similar to past guerrilla warfare.

Source: Bloomberg

WATCH: Terror group PKK supporters openly claim they are organizing across Europe to occupy train stations, state institutions, and parliament buildings, framing it as coordinated “civil disobedience.”

“All train stations in Europe, all state institutions will be occupied.”

“We won’t let Europeans sleep at night anymore.”

“They won’t find peace.”

Steve Witkoff on the Board of Peace:

What we’re going to do here, what Trump is going to do here, will be game-changing for the world.

Source: Bloomberg

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Q: We’ve seen Russia continue their attacks on critical infrastructure, most recently energy infrastructure, leaving thousands, maybe millions of Ukrainians without power, without heat. Do you think Putin is truly here for a peace deal?

Witkoff: Well, first of all, they’re in a war and so they’re shooting at each other. And we don’t condone that. We think it’s unfortunate.

Source: Bloomberg

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Steve Witkoff on Russia-Ukraine:

We think people are suffering on both sides.

It’s cold there. And not to have heat is terrible.

Source: Bloomberg

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Trump arrives in Switzerland for World Economic Forum.

Steve Witkoff:

The Russians have invited us to come, and that’s a significant statement from them. And Kirill (Dmitriev) was here yesterday and working on this with us.

So I think everybody is embedded in the process and wants to see a peace deal happen.

Source: Bloomberg

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Steve Witkoff:

Iran needs to change its ways. They need to do that.

And if they do, if they indicate that they’re willing to do that, I think we can diplomatically settle this.

Source: Bloomberg

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Polish President Nawrocki:

Poland won with the Soviets and Bolsheviks.

Finland won with the Soviets and Bolsheviks.

Japanese and Afghans won with the Soviet Union.

So we are ready in our countries to secure our independence but we need some relations to be stronger.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent:

The size of Denmark’s investment in U.S. Treasury bonds, like Denmark itself, is irrelevant.

NEW: The European Parliament voted to refer the EU-Mercosur trade deal to the EU Court of Justice, delaying approval by at least a year.

The tight vote (334–324) suspends the process while judges assess whether the agreement complies with EU treaties.

Keir Starmer:

I will not yield, Britain will not yield, on our principles and values about the future of Greenland under threats of tariffs.

Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of Bashar al-Assad and brother of Hafez al-Assad, died aged 88 in the UAE.

He lived mostly in exile and briefly returned to Syria in 2021 before fleeing again after the regime’s collapse in 2024.

He is widely accused of major atrocities, including the 1982 Hama massacre (10,000–40,000 dead) and the 1980 Tadmor prison massacre, earning the nickname “the Butcher of Hama.”