🇺🇸 ❌ 🇬🇧❗️ — REPORT: U.S. Coast Guard removed the captain and first officer of a Russian-flagged oil tanker from UK territory after the vessel was brought to the Moray coast in Scotland, prompting criticism from Scotland’s justice secretary over “Scottish jurisdiction and Scots law.”

🔴 Scotland’s Court of Session had issued an interim order (sought by the captain’s wife) aimed at preventing UK/Scottish authorities from removing the crew from Scottish jurisdiction, but the court lifted it after being told the U.S. had already transferred the two officers from the tanker Marinera onto the USCG cutter Munro and out of the court’s territorial reach.

🔴Scottish officials said they were not given full information and received limited notice as events unfolded; Justice Secretary Angela Constance cited lack of communication, no advance notice that the vessel would be sailed into Scottish waters, and raised concerns about public confidence and respect for Scottish legal processes.

🔴 The U.S. Department of Justice had approached Scotland’s prosecutors for mutual legal assistance (a step typically linked to extradition processes) on January 16, but withdrew that request on Monday; Scottish authorities said they never detained or controlled the captain, first officer, or crew.

🔴 The remaining 26 crew members—reported to include Russian, Indian, Georgian, and Ukrainian nationals—are seeking to leave the UK voluntarily; plans are being made to fly five to the U.S. and the rest to their home countries.

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🇮🇷 🇦🇿 ⚡️ — Azerbaijan says they will not allow their airspace to be used in an attack on Iran.

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🇮🇱 ❌ 🇵🇸 ⚡️ — Occupation forces raid Dheisheh refugee camp in the city of Bethlehem, south of the West Bank

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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 ⚡️ — Trump:

we have many large and very powerful ships that are sailing to Iran at the moment. It would be great if we didn't have to use them.

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🇺🇸 🇨🇺 ⚡️ — Trump signs executive order declaring a "national emergency" over Cuba, and will impose additional tariffs on countries supplying Cuba with oil.

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⚡️ — The martyr leader Ra'fat Salama with the martyr leader Muhammad al-Sinwar, in 2005.

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🇮🇱 🇵🇸 ⚠️ — BREAKING: Israel is constructing large camps in Gaza equipped with surveillance and facial recognition technology to house the population.

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🇮🇱 ❌ 🇸🇾 🇺🇳 ⚡️ — Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ibrahim Olabi:

The occupied Syrian Golan is Syrian land, and Israel is mistaken if it believes that our engagement with it in security talks constitutes a concession of the rights of the Syrian people.

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🇮🇱 ⚡️ — THAAD reinforcements are being deployed in Israel

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🇮🇱 💥 — Urgent | Casualties reported in an Israeli airstrike on a tent in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis.

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