🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡- The Aden-based and UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, STC, welcomes Trump's decision to re-designate Ansarullah as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. The STC released a statement saying it was "an important step to deal with the threat to regional and international security".

🇬🇪🇪🇪⚡- "The Russian-backed Georgian Dream party is using rigged elections to establish complete control over state institutions and suppress the opposition and civil society," - Statement released by Estonia's Parliament.

🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah have captured al-Jabara from the Saudi-backed Coalition Forces - Ad-Dali direction, Yemen.

This marks the first significant change along the frontline in this direction in years. The large town, which fell overnight, had been under siege for over a month, with the news confirmed by several Southern Transitional Council outlets.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- The Israeli Security Cabinet will meet tonight to discuss whether the IDF stays or withdraws from southern Lebanon.

🏳🇵🇰⚡- Afghanistan's Taliban government released a report accusing Pakistan of training Islamic State of Khorasan, ISKP, terrorists.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇵🇱⚡- "I want Putin to beg Ukraine and its allies for peace," - Andrzej Duda, President of Poland.

🇷🇺⚡- "Putin will hold an important international telephone conversation today," - Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin Spokesman.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "We don't see anything new in Trump's threats to impose sanctions if a deal on Ukraine is not reached. You know that Trump, in the first iteration of his presidency, was the American president who most often resorted to sanctions methods. He likes these methods, at least he liked them during his first presidency," - Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin Spokesman.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "Trump's data on the USSR's losses of almost 60 million lives in World War II do not correspond to reality. The USSR paid the highest price for the victory over fascism, the USA helped, but for them it was just business," - Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin Spokesman.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- "Russia continues contacts with the Syrian leadership on all current issues," - Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin Spokesman.

🇷🇺⚡- Georgy Ivanov, Russia's General Staff official, proposed recognizing the international waters of Laptev Sea and Kara Sea as "internal water bodies of Russia".

🇺🇦🇸🇾🇨🇭⚡- The Foreign Ministers of Ukraine and Syria met on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

🇫🇷🇩🇿⚡- Algeria's National Assembly Speaker demands France take 'responsibility for the consequences of nuclear tests on its territory during the period of colonization, without taking its consequences into consideration'.

🇺🇸🇱🇾⚡- Fathi al-Shibli, head of the Voice of the People party in eastern Libya, demands USAID to stop its subversive activities in the Murzuq region, southern Libya. Al-Shibli accused USAID employees of 'training' individuals and 'implementing hidden agendas under the guise of development and peacebuilding'.

Murzuq city is currently held by local Toubou tribes loyal to Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army.

🇬🇧🇫🇷🇺🇦⚡- "Paris and London have begun preliminary planning to send troops to Ukraine to ensure security in the event of a ceasefire," - Politico.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Israel asked Washington to allow a 30-day extension of the deadline for withdrawing its forces from southern Lebanon," - Haaretz.

🇧🇾🇸🇾⚡- A Belarusian delegation arrived in Syria to meet the head of Syria's government, Ahmed al-Sharaa.

🇧🇾🇸🇾⚡- "We are ready to support the Syrian side in its efforts with the international community to lift the restrictions imposed through sanctions," - Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Elon Musk is being falsely smeared. Elon is a great friend of Israel. He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state. I thank him for this," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- The IDF has issued a directive to residents of Jenin, West Bank, to evacuate by 5.00pm (Tel Aviv time).

🇯🇴🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "We cannot afford another war in the West Bank," - Jordan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.