🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- Reuters reports the U.S. and India reached an interim framework for a trade agreement yesterday.

"The framework reaffirms a commitment to negotiations toward a broader bilateral trade agreement." - Joint statement by both governments.

🇷🇺⚡️- Sergey Tropin, Russia’s former Deputy Justice Minister, was found "drowned in his own bathtub" by Moscow's authorities.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Benjamin Netanyahu will meet Donald Trump in Washington D.C. this next Wednesday.

🇩🇿🇦🇪⚡- Algeria has begun cancelling its 13 years old air service agreement with the UAE.

Relations between Algiers and Abu Dhabi have deteriorated, notably over UAE's allege support for Kabyle and Tindouf separatists, the Malian junta, and Khalifa Haftar-led Libyan National Army.

🇮🇱⚡- Netanyahu's Press Office announces a mini security cabinet meeting as well as a Likud-bloc Coalition meeting for tomorrow.

🇺🇸✝️⚡️- Three time World Series champion Terrance Gore has passed away at age 34.

Gore made his mark as one of the fastest Baseball players in the league playing for the Kansas City Royals, Chicago Cubs, LA Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, and the New York Mets.

Gore died via complications during routine surgery.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "There is concern over a possible agreement between Washington and Tehran that does not meet our security needs and leaves the threats unresolved." - Maariv quoting an Israeli official.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "Netanyahu believes negotiations must address limiting Iran's ballistic missiles and its support for the axis." - Prime Minister's Office.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will demand the following from President Trump during their meeting:

1: Complete cancellation of the Iranian nuclear program,
2: Zero uranium enrichment on Iranian soil,
3: Zero uranium enrichment capabilities,
4: Removal of all enriched uranium from Iran,
5: Limiting the range of Iranian missiles to 300 kilometers,
6: Dismantling the 'Shiite axis',
7: Intense, real and qualitative supervision over Iran."

Source: Israeli Channel 14.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Omer Tischler, the upcoming Israeli Air Force Commander, who's set to replace current Tomer Bar, will accompany Prime Minister Netanyahu on his visit to the White House.

🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: "Merchants at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar—where the protests first flared up in late December—are calling on shopkeepers nationwide to take to the streets again on February 17-18, days that mark the end of the traditional 40-day mourning period for killings that occurred January 8-9," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇮🇷⚡- "A second wave of popular anger is building in Iran.

Medical students in Shiraz held a sit-in for several days this week, chanting slogans in support of protesters who had been killed and doctors who were arrested for treating the injured. High-school students are also engaging in collective acts of protest. Students at their school are refusing to sing the national anthem in the morning," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇺🇸🇦🇲🇦🇿 - C-17s landing in Armenia or Azerbaijan have nothing to do with the ongoing US military build-up in the region amid the tensions with Iran, but are preparing for the Vice President's visit to the region later this month.

Vice President JD Vance is currently visiting the Winter Olympics in Northern Italy, and will then stop-by in the South Caucasus to see the implementation of the historic US-backed Trump Corridor, TRIPP, deal, signed last year.

🇮🇷🇵🇸🇮🇱 - Israeli Democracy Institute (Israeli-based Think Tank):

- 50% of the Israeli public believe Israel should intervene in a war with Iran, only if Israel is attacked first.

- 44% of the Israeli public support a coordinated attack on Iran with the US from the outset.

- 51% of the Israeli public support Netanyahu's decision to join Trump's Board of Peace for Gaza.

- 51% of the Israeli public believe Trump's Board of Peace will not be capable of solving Gaza's problems and maintaining Israel's security.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- A large squadron of Israeli jets enter southern Syrian airspace, currently over the Daraa region.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli jets are likely operating as cover for an ongoing IDF ground incursion near the town of Ma'araya in the Yarmouk Basin, Daraa region, southern Syria.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡- BREAKING: An armoured battalion from Iraq's 9th Division has entered the Green Zone, Baghdad, and have set-up defensive positions around US installations, including the embassy.

🇸🇾🇮🇱 - Syrian media, 10 minutes after Rerum Novarum, have confirmed the ongoing IDF incursion in the Yarmouk Basin, Daraa region of southern Syria.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- At least 20 Israeli vehicles are currently taking part in the large-scale incursion in the Yarmouk Basin, southern Syria – Syrian sources report.

🇸🇩🇹🇩 - Border skirmishes between the Chadian military and the Rapid Support Forces were reported earlier today along the Chad-Sudan border.

This follows a RSF drone strike on a Chadian military outpost last December, killing two soldiers.