🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump will sign order reorganizing USAID merging it into the State Department, Marco Rubio will then be the acting head.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- After Trump's special envoy, Richard Grenell, met Venezuelan President Maduro, Venezuela released 6 US citizens.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Hamas releases two hostages Ofer Calderon and Jordan Bibas, both were handed over to the Red Cross.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump formally recognizes February 2025 as National Black History Month.

🇮🇩⚡- A massive explosion at a toy warehouse in Pantai Indah Kapuk, Jakarta, Indonesia. Nearby residents have been evacuated due to toxic fumes.

🇷🇸⚡- "The problem is not that they want to overthrow me, the problem is that they [the opposition] want to destroy Serbia. And what we see in recent months is the direct demand of foreign intelligence agencies acting to destroy our country," - Alexander Vucic, President of Serbia.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Hamas releases a third Israeli hostage today, handing him over to the Red Cross.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- The spokesman of the al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obaida, was allegedly present during the exchange.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Hamas had the three released Israeli hostages sign a document which included a "commitment not to return to service in the IDF."

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israel has begun transferring the Palestinian prisoners for exchange from Ofer Prison in Israel.

🇨🇩⚡- Southern African Development Community, SADC, announces it will withdraw all of its peacekeepers from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The decision came after an emergency summit was held by the SADC countries, after SADC forces took heavy casualties in eastern DR Congo in recent days. In a statement, SADC admitted that "the set goals were not achieved."

🇸🇾⚡- 2 Syrian government forces were killed and another injured after they were ambushed by a pro-Assad cell in al-Mukhtariya, Latakia, western Syria.

🇺🇸🇱🇾⚡- The US military and the 166th Battalion of the Khalifa Haftar-led Libyan National Army hold joint training in Sirte, Libya.

🇺🇸⚡️- Ken Martin has been elected the new Chair of the DNC, Martin was previously the chair of the Minnesota Democrats and Vice Chair of the DNC.

🇸🇦🇸🇾⚡- Saudi outlet, al-Arabiya, believes Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa will visit Saudi Arabia tomorrow.

🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡️- Labour party is under investigation by the Electoral Commission over receiving funds from the EU during the election last year

🇺🇸🇸🇴⚡- US President Trump orders airstrikes on Islamic State positions in Puntland, northern Somalia.

🇺🇸🇸🇴⚡- "This morning, I ordered precision military airstrikes against the senior ISIS attack coordinator and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia. These killers, whom we found hiding in caves, were threatening the United States and our allies. The message to ISIS and anyone else who attacks Americans is this - We will find you and we will kill you," - Donald Trump, US President.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Mainstream conservative and pro-Israel media in the United States have been pushing a story of a Chinese student, Liu Lijun, being arrested and her visa revoked for pro-Palestine demonstrations at the University of California Los Angeles.

The original FOX News clip comes from May 2024 of a pro-Palestine campus protester of Asian descent being arrested and unmasked by authorities.

In fact, there has been no expulsion or deportation of this student, and this story is false.

🇺🇸⚡️- After no candidate received a majority of the vote, the DNC Vice Chair vote will hold a second round. The top 3 contestants in the last round were Artie Blanco with 117, David Hogg with 61, and Malcolm Kenyatta with 54.