🇺🇸🇦🇲⚡- The US and Armenia sign a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement.

🇹🇷🇷🇺⚡- A Russian Geran-2 drone washed up on the coast of Ordu, northern Turkey.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has departed for the US, taking a limited delegation with him (which excludes his wife Sara – a rare instance).

🇷🇺⚡- Russia's mass censorship continues, with Roskomnadzor beginning to partially restrict access to Telegram across the country.

— 🇮🇷🇨🇳 The Chinese military ambassador presented the commander of Iran's Air Force with a model of the J-20 stealth fighter

🇨🇿 | @duckdiaries

🇺🇸 A 16-year-old student opened fire at a Maryland high school, shooting a classmate

Thomas S. Wootton High School was placed on lockdown Monday afternoon after the shooting, police said. One student was wounded and is in stable condition.

The suspect, also a student, was arrested shortly afterward near the school.

The motive for the shooting has not yet been reported.

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🇷🇺⚡- "Telegram does not comply with Russian legislation. Telegram and a number of messengers have still not eliminated violations of Russian law to have the restrictions lifted," - Roskomnadzor.

🇫🇷⚡️- Yaël Braun-Pivet, President of the French National Assembly, has publicly opposed the creation of a parliamentary investigative commission centered on Epstein and his ties with French nationals.

The official reason given is that an independent Parliament-backed investigation would impede on the investigations of the French justice. So far, the said French justice has only investigated Jack and Caroline Lang for their ties to Epstein.

🇺🇸🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- After becoming the first ever sitting President / Vice-President to visit Armenia, JD Vance arrives in Baku, Azerbaijan.

🇺🇸🇦🇿⚡- Vice President JD Vance meets Azerbaijan's Ilham Aliyev.

🇺🇸🇦🇿⚡- The US and Azerbaijan have signed a strategic partnership agreement.

The agreement will see enhanced cooperation between the two nations in transport infrastructure, in particular the strategic Trump Corridor (TRIPP), the energy sector, but more importantly, in defense and security.

The agreement will also see the creation of a corridor for rare earth metals from Central Asia, in particular Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, where the US signed key major deals last year.

🇻🇪🇮🇱⚡- "Venezuela is sending its first crude oil cargo to Israel in years as the Latin American country’s exports open up following the capture of its president Nicolas Maduro.

The cargo is being transported to Bazan Group, the Mediterranean country’s top crude processor," - Bloomberg.

🇪🇺⚡️- Today, the EU Parliament adopted changes to the EU asylum procedure regulations to enable faster processing of asylum requests.

With 408 in favor, 184 against and 60 abstentions, the EU Parliament endorsed the creation of an "EU list of safe countries of origin". MEPs also approved the deal on the regulation on application of the safe third country concept, with 396 in favor, 226 against and 30 abstentions.

This will allow the European Union to streamline the deportation process of denied asylum claims through asylum hubs hosted outside the EU's borders. This resolution will be active active as soon as this June.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- President Trump tells Barak Ravid of Israeli Channel 12 that he prefers to have a "great deal" with Iran. He adds "Iran can't have nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles." Trump also said that he is considering sending "another aircraft carrier" to join USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East.

🇺🇸 - Nancy Guthrie was abducted on February 1st at around 2-2:30am PST. Furthermore, her pacemaker app showed that she had been separated from her phone at 2:28am, when motion was detected both inside and outside her home. Additionally, blood stains identified as Guthrie’s were found at the scene.

Afterwards, unverified ransom notes were received by TMZ and the Tucson CNN affiliate, KOLD News. Last week, a ransom of $6 million was set to be transferred to an unidentifiable Bitcoin wallet. The Guthries released a statement saying they were prepared to pay the ransom.

Notably, Nancy Guthrie requires daily medication for a health condition, which, most likely, she has not received since her abduction.

The local and federal authorities have been stonewalled in the investigation, with the latter not contributing much to the success, thus continuing a trend of incompetence under FBI Director Kash Patel.

🇺🇸🇨🇩🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Blackwater founder Erik Prince deployed two Israeli-trained battalions to help the Congolese army, FARDC, retake Uvira, South Kivu region, from the M23 in mid-December, Reuters reports.

The report states Israeli advisors were present on the ground, but played an 'advisory role only'.

Uvira sits north of Lake Tangayaka, and was defended primarily by the Burundian army and the anti-M23 alliance known as Wazalendo. Uvira is just nine kilometers from Bujumbura, Burundi's largest city.

M23 seized the city in early December, with Washington threatening retaliation. In return, the M23 withdrew as a 'goodwill gesture'.

Reuters reports Erik Prince's Israeli-trained battalions could continue to act as a deterrent to the Rwandan-backed M23 forces.

Note, La Libre first noted "white mercenaries" operating in Uvira in early December. For instance, a video that was spread on social media showing Wazalendo factions fleeing, with a truck operated by a White individual following behind.