🎉 - Happy New Year!

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah have shot down yet another US MQ-9 drone over Yemen.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- The SDF shot down a Turkish BP2 Bayraktar drone west of Qarqozak, Manbij direction, Syria.

🇺🇦⚡- "It is so important today to support all the nations that defend freedom. Those who do not give it up in Moldova. Those who fight for their future in Georgia. And I am sure that the day will come when we will all say 'Long live Belarus!'" - Volodymyr Zelenskyi, President of Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "We know that peace will not be given to us, but we will do everything to end the war and defeat Russia," - Volodymyr Zelenskyi, President of Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇪🇺⚡- Russia's Gazprom has stopped gas supplies to Europe via the transit route through Ukraine due to contract expiration.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺⚡- "At 7:00am, Ukraine stopped the transit of Russian gas through its territory," - Ukraine's Ministry of Energy.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are one family. No one can break our blood ties, and no one can stop the historical trend of reunification of the motherland," - Xi Jinping, President of China.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas have hit a dead end," - i24.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan's Coast Guard reports an increase in violations of its Kinmen Island's water-spaces by Chinese military vessels since the start of the new year.

🇺🇸🇵🇭⚡- Philippine Ambassador to the United States, Jose Manuel Romualdez, met with US President-elect, Donald Trump, at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Scenes from Avdeevka today. The city was captured by Russian forces on February 17th 2024.

🇺🇸⚡️- "The driver who carried out the attack got out of his truck and opened fire. This is an intentional attack." - New Orleans Police Department.

🇺🇸⚡️- New Orleans Police say the suspect is still at large.

🇺🇸⚡️- Scenes from the French Quarter, New Orleans, where the attack took place.

🇺🇸⚡️- Some foreign media are reporting that there are multiple attackers. The language of the New Orleans Police Department seems to indicate this is a terrorist incident.

🇺🇸⚡️- "The van crashed into the crowd at high speed and then the driver got out and started shooting a weapon and the police fired back at him." - CBS News.

🇺🇸⚡️- "A horrific act of violence took place on Bourbon Street earlier this morning. Please join Sharon and I in praying for all the victims and first responders on scene. I urge all near the scene to avoid the area." - Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry.

🇺🇸⚡️- The death toll in the New Orleans attack has risen to 12, according to local media.