🇨🇳🇾🇪⚡- "China supplies militias in Yemen [Ansarullah] with weapons to attack ships in the Red Sea in exchange for not targeting its ships," - i24, Israeli outlet.

🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: Tahreek-e-Taliban kidnapped a Pakistani Special Forces Commander along with two of his assistants - Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa region, Pakistan.

🇵🇰⚡- "It's time to root out Tahreek-e-Taliban once and for all" - Shehbaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan.

🇵🇰⚡- "There are agents sitting abroad, disguised as friends, but are propagating against Pakistan. This is a significant threat," - Shehbaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan.

🇵🇰⚡- "We are also aware of the foreign hands who are hatching conspiracies against Pakistan from within Balochistan," - Shehbaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan, likely calling out Iran.

🇺🇸⚡️- House Speaker vote currently ongoing.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Speaker vote is currently down to two potential candidates.

🔵 Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)
🔴 Mike Johnson (R-LA)

At this time, it's currently tied up, however it's highly likely that Johnson will be re-elected.

🇺🇸⚡️- Al Green (D-TX) attempted to make a semi-speech in casting his vote for Jeffries. He was laughed at and called to order for disruption of the vote.

🇺🇸⚡️- Incumbent Johnson in the lead against Jeffries, 90 to 82.

🇺🇸⚡️- Thunderous applauses from opposing sides of the aisle as each respective candidate casted their vote for themselves.

🇺🇸⚡️- Thomas Massie (R-KY) cast a protest vote against Mike Johnson.

🇺🇸⚡️- Ralph Norman (R-SC) cast a protest vote for Jim Jordan.

🇺🇸⚡️- Mike Johnson failed to acquire enough votes to be elected Speaker of the House. Second vote for speaker expected.

🇬🇱🇩🇰⚡- "Greenland's Prime Minister emphasised his desire to pursue independence from Denmark during his New Year speech," - Reuters.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Large-scale Turkish airstrikes against SDF positions near the Tishrin Dam, Manbij direction.
Footage from SDF-controlled town of Meskene.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Turkish jets flying low over Ain al-Arab, SDF-controlled northern Syria.

🇺🇸⚡️- Mike Johnson has been elected Speaker of the House

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡️- Nigel Farage and Reform UK leadership are reportedly angry at Elon Musk over his support for Stephen Yaxley (aka Tommy Robinson) and are directly telling GOP leadership, including Musk, why Yaxley is not actually a political prisoner and shouldn't be supported.

This comes as a member of Keir Starmer's inner circle says that Elon cannot maintain support for the AFD in Germany and Reform UK while part of the Trump Administration saying that doing so is "in effect declaring war on the main US allies in Europe".

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes against Latakia, western Syria.

🇱🇾 a military operation was launched in Zawiya and the western coast of Libya