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Newly released infrared footage dated January 14, filmed by videographer and explorer Anders Otteson, who runs a channel called Uncanny Expeditions on YouTube, shows an unidentified triangular-shaped aircraft flying over Area 51 and the Nevada Test and Training Range.
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President Donald J. Trump speaking earlier today on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, about the current situation surrounding Iran.

Reporter: โ€œThere are assets moving into the Gulf, obviously, carriers and other things. So a lot of people are wondering whether that's a prelude to further action?โ€

Trump: โ€œWell, we hope there's not going to be further action. But, you know, they're shooting people indiscriminately in the streets. And they were going to - look this was a big thing for me - they were going to hang 830, hang 837 mostly young people.โ€
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While speaking Wednesday in front of the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Donald J. Trump announced that the United States has ordered an additional 25 B-2 โ€œSpiritโ€ Long-Range Stealth Bombers, citing their usefulness during last Juneโ€™s strikes against nuclear facilities in Iran. However, President Trump is likely talking about the B-21 Raider not the B-2, as the production line for the B-2 was ceased by Northrop Grumman in 2000, and has since fully transferred to production of the B-21.
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The Trump Administration is actively seeking regime change in Cuba by the end of the year, emboldened by the recent ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolรกs Maduro, with senior officials in the administration searching for Cuban government insiders who could help cut a deal to push out the Communist-led government in Cuba by the end of the 2026, people familiar with the matter have told the Wall Street Journal.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announces at todayโ€™s summit for the World Economic Forum in Davos that Ukraine, Russia, and the United States will hold their first trilateral talks on Friday and Saturday, January 23-24, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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Franceโ€™s President Emmanuel Macron announced today that the French Navy, supported by allies, intercepted, boarded, and seized an oil tanker originating from Russia in the Mediterranean Sea. The tanker, believed to be part of Russiaโ€™s โ€œShadow Fleetโ€ is under sanctions from the European Union and is suspected of flying a false flag, with an investigation having been opened and the vessel directed to a nearby port in Europe.
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During his speech today in front of the 56th Annual Summit of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized Europe for its inability to properly defend against or punish Russia, specially stating, โ€œEurope loves to discuss the future, but avoids taking action today. Action that defines what kind of future we will have. That is the problem. Why can President Trump stop tankers from the Shadow Fleet and seize oil, but Europe doesn't? Russian oil is being transported right along European shores. That oil funds the war against Ukraine. That oil helps destabilize Europe.โ€

Less than a hour later, France announced that it has intercepted, boarded, and seized a sanction stateless oil tanker with the Russian Shadow Fleet in the Mediterranean.
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The Russian crude oil tanker that was boarded and seized earlier today near the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco by the French Navy, with reported support from both Britain and the United States, has been identified as the M/T GRINCH, a sanctioned stateless tanker operating under Russiaโ€™s โ€œShadow Fleetโ€ that was falsely flying the flag of Comoros. The Grinch had departed the Arctic port of Murmansk in Northern Russia earlier this month, likely heading towards the Suez Canal, with the ship now being escorted to the French port of Marseille.
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The United States is expected to complete preparations across the region in the coming days for a possible attack against Iran, according to Channel 12 in Israel.
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According to an exclusive report from the Wall Street Journal, Washington is considering a complete withdrawal of the roughly 1,000 American Servicemembers who remain in Syria, as Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has moved to wrest control of the northeastern part of the country from the American-backed Kurdish-led paramilitary group known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), seeking to fully unify Syria under the new government in Damascus.
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Several Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.4s with the No. 12 Squadron of the British Royal Air Force, based out of RAF Coningsby and operated jointly with ground and maintenance crewmembers from the Qatar Emiri Air Force, have been deployed to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar from RAF Akrotiri, amid escalating tensions with Iran. According to the U.K. Ministry of Defense, the deployment was at the request of the Qatari Government under the U.K.-Qatar Defence Assurance Agreement.
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Newly released footage, alleged to be from the night of January 8-9, which is claimed to show a member of Iranโ€™s Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) firing an automatic rifle at anti-regime protesters from the back of a pickup truck in the capital of Tehran.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting earlier this afternoon with President Trumpโ€™s special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner at the Kremlin in Moscow, prior to tomorrowโ€™s trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi between Ukraine, Russia, and the United States, which will be led by Witkoff and Kushner.
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President Donald J. Trump stated earlier in a post on Truth Social:

โ€œMaybe we should have put NATO to the test: Invoked Article 5, and forced NATO to come here and protect our Southern Border from further Invasions of Illegal Immigrants, thus freeing up large numbers of Border Patrol Agents for other tasks.โ€
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President Donald J. Trump announces that Canada and Prime Minister Mark Carney are no longer invited to his โ€œBoard of Peaceโ€ following Carneyโ€™s dominating speech this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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Speaking to reporters earlier today onboard Air Force One while on the way back from the 56th Annual Summit of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, President Donald J. Trump spoke about Iran and the ongoing buildup of military assets in the Middle East:

โ€œWeโ€™re watching Iran. Weโ€™re watching Iran. We have a lot of ships going that direction just in case. We have a big flotilla going in that direction. And we'll see what happens. We have a big force going towards Iran. I'd rather not see anything happen, but we're watching them very closely. I stopped 837 hangings on Thursday. They would have been dead, every one of them would have been hung. This is like from a thousand years ago. This is an ancient culture. Very smart people, by the way. It's an ancient culture. 837 mostly young men were going to be hung on Thursday, and I said: โ€˜You hang those people, you're going to be hit harder than you've ever been hit. It'll make what we did to your Iran nuclear look like peanuts.โ€™ And an hour before this horrible thing was going to take place, they canceled it. And they actually said they canceled it. They didn't postpone it. They canceled it. So that was a good sign. But we have an armada - we have a massive - we have a massive fleet heading in that direction. Maybe we won't have to use it. We'll see.โ€
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President Donald J. Trump was asked earlier on Air Force One about an unusually large bruise that was visible on his left hand during todayโ€™s events in Davos, to which he responded, โ€œI'm very good. I clipped it on the table. So I put a little - what do they call it? - cream on it. But I clipped it. I would say, take aspirin if you like your heart, but don't take aspirin if you don't want to have a little bruising. If you take the big - I take the big aspirin. When you take the big aspirin they tell you, you bruise.โ€
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