🇮🇶 ⚡️ — Al-Nujaba Movement opens volunteering across Iraq to "defend Islam and the oppressed".

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🇮🇱 ⚠️ — Channel 12: Immigration from Israel rises by 40% as Israelis leave and new immigrants do not stay.

🔴 New immigrants are leaving.

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🇮🇶 🇮🇷 ❗️ — Sheikh Nazem Al-Saidi, the head of the Executive Council of the Al-Nujaba Movement, said:

"In response to the call for defending the right made by our brother, the Mujahid, the Secretary-General of the Hezbollah Brigades, and based on the words of Allah: 'Indeed, Allah loves those who fight in His cause in a united front, as if they were a firmly built structure'; the Al-Nujaba Movement announces the opening of the door for volunteering throughout Iraq, through our offices located in all provinces, with the aim of defending Islam and the oppressed."

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🇮🇷 ⚡️ — According to Iranian news, Mr. Khamenei visited the Jamkaran Mosque. Such visits usually precede decision-making.

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⚡️ — Gold has hit $5,400 USD per oz.

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🇨🇴 💥 — Colombia: 15 people, including a member of parliament, killed in a plane crash in the northeast of the country, according to an air force source.

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🇮🇱 ❌ 🇵🇸 ❗️ — Urgent | The Israeli army demolishes houses in Rafah, southern Gaza.

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🇵🇸 💥 — Heavy rain is currently falling on Gaza and the northern sector.

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🇮🇱 🇵🇸 ⚡️ — Deployment of infantry forces from the occupation 'army' at the Cinema Roundabout in the center of Jenin city

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🇦🇺⚡️ — NEW: CCTV shows a 31-year-old Warwick man allegedly throwing a homemade nail bomb into a crowd at an Invasion Day rally in Perth's Central Business District on Monday (26 January).

🔴 Man threw the item from a first‑floor walkway into a crowd of about 2,500 people before fleeing.

🔴 Police say the device was a “homemade improvised explosive device containing a mixture of volatile and potentially explosive chemicals, with nails and metal ball bearings affixed to the exterior,” but it failed to detonate.

🔴 A member of the public alerted officers, the suspect was taken into custody, charged, remanded in custody and the incident is being investigated as a potential terrorist act.

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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 🇹🇷 ⚡️ — Turkish authorities arrested 6 individuals suspected of being iranian spies who allegedly were collecting information about the american Incirlik base in Turkey

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🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️ — NEW: A new "non-kinetic effects cell" helped push cyber operations to the forefront of the operation that captured Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, Brig. Gen. R. Ryan Messer told the Senate Armed Services Committee’s cybersecurity panel.

🔴 The operation used cyber effects that targeted radar, internet, and the city's power grid, causing a temporary blackout.

🔴 U.S. spy agencies stood up crisis action teams and the NSA provided geolocation support and signals monitoring to Special Operations Command and Southern Command.

🔴 Pentagon leaders say the cell is part of a wider push — including "Cyber Command 2.0" and a Cyber Innovation Warfare Center — to recruit cyber specialists and speed development of cyber tools.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺🇫🇷⚡️ — REPORT: Key developments from day 1,435 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

🔴 The death toll from a Russian attack on a passenger train in Kharkiv region rose to six after additional remains were recovered; separate Russian strikes injured people in Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk and a Ukrainian attack killed one person in Belgorod.

🔴 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said France will deliver more “French aircraft, missiles for air defence systems, and aerial bombs” this year after a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron.

🔴 Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko said 639 apartment buildings in Kyiv remain without heat with temperatures forecast to drop to -23°C overnight.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — NEW: A US court sentenced Carlisle Rivera to 15 years for his involvement in a plot to assassinate Masih Alinejad that the US Justice Department said was directed by the government of Iran.

🔴 Rivera, 50, was arrested in November 2024 before carrying out the plan.

🔴 Masih Alinejad, 49, urged the United States to "take action against (those) in power in Iran" and to arrest Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after the sentencing.

🔴 John Eisenberg, assistant attorney general for national security, said the sentence "underscores the consequences of conspiring with a regime that relies on violence and intimidation"; co-defendant Jonathan Loadholt will be sentenced in April; Alinejad faced a separate foiled attack in summer 2022.

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🇳🇪 💥 — Continuous gunfire and powerful explosions are being reported near Niamey International Airport in Niger.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️ — NEW: U.S. President Donald Trump is weighing targeted strikes on Iranian security forces and leaders to inspire protesters, sources say

🔴 Options discussed include hitting commanders and institutions blamed for the violence and a larger strike against ballistic missiles or nuclear enrichment programs

🔴 Arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier and warships in the Middle East has expanded capabilities, but Trump has not made a final decision

🔴 A senior Israeli official said airstrikes alone cannot topple the Islamic Republic; HRANA puts the death toll at 5,937 while official figures say 3,117

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