🇺🇸⚡️ — President Trump made a TikTok with Nicki Minaj.

Minaj: I'm with my favorite President, the best President of all time.

Trump: And I'm with the Queen of Rap.

📸 Nicki Minaj and Trump holding hands together today.

Niger's air defenses are active over Niamey International Airport, engaging with unidentified projectiles.

🇬🇧Starmer-Xi🇨🇳 meeting live: UK prime minister says he wants ‘more sophisticated’ relationship with China

Starmer tells Xi Jinping during Beijing meeting that it has been ‘too long’ since a British PM has visited China.

'Are we going backwards from whatever we gained in terms of achieving a casteless society?'

Supreme Court Stays UGC Equity Regulations 2026.

• On January 29, 2026, the Supreme Court (bench: CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi) stayed the UGC (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2026, keeping them in abeyance.

• The Court found the rules prima facie vague and capable of misuse, and discriminatory toward general category students. It issued notice to the Union government and UGC (returnable March 19) and directed that the 2012 UGC Regulations continue in force meantime.

• The decision came on petitions by Mritunjay Tiwari, Vineet Jindal, and Rahul Dewan challenging the regulations' constitutionality. The Court suggested revisiting them, possibly via a committee of eminent jurists.

🇵🇦 - In Panama, monkeys of one species started to steal babies of monkeys of a totally different species and trying to raise those as their own.

Scientists suspect that monkeys reached conclusion that stealing others' babies and raising as own is simpler than being pregnant.

🍌🍚🇸🇴🇺🇸 "Bananas and rice" girl Nasra Ahmed, whose claim to fame is making absolutely no sense, was arrested earlier today in Minneapolis for allegedly participating in a riot.

🇸🇪 - This fall, Sweden will ban smartphones for all junior and middle school students.

~ Foreign Minister, Islamic Republic of Iran.

🇬🇧 Beautiful Birmingham

🇺🇸⚡️🇮🇷 The U.S. Air Force's E-11A, the sleek "Wi-Fi in the sky" powerhouse officially known as the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) aircraft, has surged into the Middle East theater amid escalating regional tensions.

🇫🇷📵 French lawmakers have passed a bill that would ban social media use by under-15s.

The French National Assembly has approved a bill banning social media access for children under 15.

The legislation, supported by 130 parliamentarians with 21 opposing, mandates age verification.

Backed by Macron, the bill now proceeds to the Senate and, if approved, could take effect by September 2026.

The bill also prohibits access to 'social media functions' embedded in other platforms. Macron cited Australia's ban on social media for those under 16 as a model.

🇮🇱 Netanyahu: "I have decided not to be dependent on the US Aid, Israel must build a strong, independent arms industry!

We will pursue joint development and production of advanced weapons with India, Germany and the US"