🇹🇩🇷🇼🇨🇩⚡- Kivu News, Rwanda-based pro-M23 outlet, claims Russian Wagner instructors will join Chad-based rebel group 'FACT' in its deployment to eastern DR Congo to fight M23.

Note, Kivu News has been accusing the Wagner Group of fighting in DR Congo for 10 years now, without evidence.

🇨🇩⚡- Attack by CODECO leaves over 55 dead in the Ituri region, northeast Democratic Republic of Congo.

🏳️⚡- Islamic State of the Khorasan Province claims responsibility for the attack in Kunduz, Afghanistan, that left dozens dead, mostly Taliban.

🇺🇸🇲🇽⚡️- Apple Maps now officially displays the name “Gulf of America.”

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡- "If Trump continues his method of pressuring the Palestinians and Arabs, he will lead the region to a new cycle of severe conflicts with Israel," - Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary General of the Arab League.

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡- "Evacuating historical Palestine of its indigenous inhabitants is something that cannot be accepted in the Arab world," - Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary General of the Arab League.

🇨🇳🇵🇸⚡- "Gaza belongs to the Palestinians and is an integral part of the Palestinian territory, and we oppose the forced displacement of its people," - China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israel, by dropping leaflets and via loudspeakers, is demanding the 7,000 residents of Nur Shams, West Bank, to evacuate immediately.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: "The Israel-Hezbollah Ceasefire Monitoring Committee informs Beirut of Israel's request to remain in Southern Lebanon positions until February 28, beyond the 14 February deadline," - Sonia, Iraqi outlet.

🇷🇺🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "There are threats from Israel and the United States to resume the military operation in Gaza, and we are seeking to prevent this from happening," - Sergei Lavrov, Foreign Minister of Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin Spokesman, rejects Ukrainian President Zelenskyi's plan to swap territory.

"Russia has never discussed and will never discuss the issue of exchanging its territories, this is impossible. Ukrainian units will be expelled from Russian territory or destroyed," - Peskov.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The chance of releasing the hostages on Saturday has greatly diminished, and this is very worrying," - Axios.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Netanyahu told the cabinet that Israel will get American support to destroy Hamas and do whatever it wants in Gaza," - Axios.

🇰🇿⚡- Irina Smirnova, Member of Kazakhstan's Mazhilis, proposes that the country adopts a law on 'Foreign Agents', similar to those passed in Russia and Georgia.

🇺🇸🇹🇷🇵🇸⚡- Ahmet Davutoglu, former Prime Minister of Turkey, proposes holding a referendum in the Gaza Strip and annexing the territory into Turkey. The Strip will given independence once a Palestinian state has been established. Davutoglu says the US and Israel wouldn't dare seize Gaza if the region is under Turkish control. Davutoglu also proposes sending Israelis to the 'abundant lands in the US'.

🇪🇺🇦🇲⚡- The Armenian Parliament adopted a bill on the beginning of the country's accession process into the EU, with 63 deputies voting in favor.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- Russian media denies Steve Witkoff's visit to Moscow was for Ukraine-Russia negotiations, and says Witkoff's visit was solely to carry out a US-Russia prisoner exchange, in which Russia has released Marc Fogel.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇧🇪⚡- Ukrainian Defense Minister Umerov met with US Defense Secretary Hegseth for the first time as part of the Rammstein format in Belgium.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "The release of American citizen Vogel by Russian authorities is not a step towards ending the Russian-Ukrainian war," - Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "A Russian who is in an American prison will be returned to the Russian Federation in exchange for the release of American Vogel," - Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin Spokesman.