🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "If Trump has plans to expand at Russia’s expense, why not?" - Volodymyr Zelenskyi, President of Ukraine, on Trump's expansion plans.

🇺🇳🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "There is a risk that Israel will seek to annex the West Bank, which is a complete violation of international law," - Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations.

🇺🇦🇦🇿⚡- "Azerbaijan and Ukraine are strategic partners with common goals and objectives," - Ukraine's Embassy in Baku.

🇬🇧🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- Britain has urged its citizens to refrain from travelling to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border area.

🇵🇸🇪🇬🇮🇱⚡- Israel and Egypt agree to hand over the Rafah crossing to the Palestinian Authority, PA. The PA will therefore operate the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.

However, there is still no agreement on the Philadelphi Corridor.

🇺🇸⚡️- Tom Homan says "mass deportations are officially underway," saying that ICE is going into sanctuary cities.

As of now, there is no proof of any operations underway.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "Israel said it will maintain control of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip during the first phase of the ceasefire with Hamas." - Associated Press.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump says he supports Elon Musk acquiring TikTok, as it only has 90 days to be sold to an American company before being fully restricted.

🇺🇸⚡️- Silk Road founder and libertarian drug trafficker Ross Ulbricht has been released from prison following President Trump's commutation of his sentence.

🇮🇷🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "We didn’t know about October 7. Actually, we were supposed to have a meeting with the Americans on JCPOA renewal on October 9. [But] this was undermined and destroyed by this [Hamas October 7th] operation," - Mohammad Javad Zarif, Vice President for Strategic Affairs and former Foreign Minister of Iran, blasts Hamas for sabotaging Iran-US nuclear talks at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland.

🇦🇲🇨🇭⚡- Armenia's Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, to travel to Davos, Switzerland, tomorrow to attend the World Economic Forum.

🇺🇸🇦🇿⚡- "During the Biden-Blinken administration, the United States showed bias against Azerbaijan , as a result of which bilateral relations were drawn into a crisis," - Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

🇾🇪⚡️- Ansarullah has released the crew of the Galaxy Leader, a vessel Ansarullah seized in November 2023.

The release of this crew was facilitated by Oman, at the request of Hamas.

🇷🇺🇧🇾⚡- "Belarus not only has a problem, but has an opportunity to put pressure on Putin as well. Belarus is the weakest point for Putin, and by helping Belarusians to gain our country back, it will be the biggest sanction on Putin ever," - Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarusian opposition leader, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

🇸🇴⚡- "The civil war has ended in Somalia," - Hassan Sheikh, President of Somalia, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

🇨🇳⚡- "Transformation not seen in a century is accelerating across the world. With imminent tariff wars and trade wars, tug of wars, and intense rivalries. Global governance is undergoing profound adjustments. Human society has once again come to a critical crossroads," - Ding Xuexiang, Chinese Vice-Premier, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

🇨🇳⚡- "At present, some international hotspot issues and conflicts are dragging on and having a serious impact on global peace and stability," - Ding Xuexiang, Chinese Vice-Premier, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

🇺🇳🇮🇷⚡- "I hope the Iranians understand that it is important to make it clear once and for all that they would renounce to have nuclear weapons," - Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

🇺🇳🇮🇷⚡- "The Iranians must engage constructively with the other countries of the region to have a new security architecture in that region, one that respects independence, territorial integrity and non-interference," - Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

🇮🇶⚡️- Iraq's parliament has lowered its legal age of marriage to 9 years old for girls following the passage of a bill sponsored by some of Iraq's major Shiite parties.

Iraqi parliamentarians defended the bill as a means to align Iraq with Islamic principles and reduce Western influence on Iraqi society and culture.