🇮🇩 🇮🇹 ⚡️ — NEW: Indonesia, PT ESystem Solutions and Leonardo signed a Letter of Intent at the Singapore Airshow to advance procurement of M-346 F Block 20 aircraft.

🔴 The LOI covers localization items including support, maintenance, overhaul and training capabilities and aims to support Indonesia’s aircraft fleet modernization and replacement of aging BAE Systems Hawk jets.

🔴 The M-346F Block 20 is described with a Large Area Display cockpit, active electronically scanned radar, Link 16 data‑link, electronic countermeasures and new weapon systems to enable simulated air‑to‑air and air‑to‑surface operations.

🔴 Leonardo says the parties will move into the next stage of discussions to achieve a procurement contract signing soon; possible quantity was not disclosed.

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🇺🇸 ⚡️ — NEW: US Vice President JD Vance announced the United States intends to create an international alliance for the mining and production of critical minerals with domestic fixed prices.

🔴 Participants will establish so-called reference prices for specific minerals and maintain them at a stable level.

🔴 These reference prices will operate as a floor maintained through adjustable tariffs to uphold pricing integrity and prevent market undercutting.

🔴 The trading zone aims to create diverse centers of production, stable investment conditions and resilient supply chains; more than 50 countries attended and many have expressed desire to join.

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🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 🇴🇲 ⚡️ — An Iranian official told Reuters: "Washington's insistence on discussing non-nuclear issues could jeopardize the talks in Oman."

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🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 ⚡️ — Hebrew media citing an American source: "Following the developments, Trump is now inclined towards military action in Iran."

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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 ⚡️ — The envoy Steve Whitkopf, who was supposed to represent Washington in the talks with Iran, will leave the Middle East tomorrow and return to Miami.

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⚡️ — Regional sources to i24NEWS: Arab mediators attempted this evening to persuade the Iranians to agree to discuss additional issues. The Iranians had already informed them yesterday: "We are only prepared to discuss the nuclear topic."

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🇺🇸 🇷🇺 ⚠️ — Russia announces it is no longer "bound" by the last nuclear treaty with the United States

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🇷🇺 ⚠️ — Russia after the end of the START nuclear treaty: We will take the necessary military measures.

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🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 🇴🇲 🇹🇷 ⚡️ — The US rejected Iran's request to move the talks from Istanbul to Muscat and limit discussions to only the nuclear file, excluding ballistic missile and proxy network issues, Axios reports.

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🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 ⚡️ — Advisor to the Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard:

American soldiers will be legitimate targets for Iran.

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🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 ⚡️ — Oil prices have approached 70 US dollars per barrel since the American-Iran talks were cancelled.

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🇮🇱 🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 ⚠️ — The nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States are cancelled as of now.

🔴 Netanyahu’s office has announced that he will be holding a security cabinet meeting regarding Iran tomorrow.

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🇮🇱 🇺🇸 ⚡️ — With the failure of negotiations and Witkoff leaving the region tomorrow, it seems Netanyahu has succeeded in convincing Trump that there is no point in continuing the talks.

🔴 It appears the decision has been made.

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🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 ⚡️ — Sources close to Iran report that the US military shot down an Iranian aircraft after it clashed with the aircraft carrier "Abraham Lincoln".

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🇺🇸 🇶🇦 ⚡️ — American tanker near Qatar

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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 ⚡️ — Trump:

Khamenei should to be worried.

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🇮🇷 ⚡️ — The Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces:

We are ready for any action by our enemies. We have changed our military doctrine from defense to offense, and we adopt a policy of asymmetric warfare. We have strengthened our deterrence capability by modernizing our ballistic missiles in all their technical aspects.

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🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 ⚡️ — NEW: Elon Musk called Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez a "true fascist totalitarian" after Sanchez proposed a ban on social media use by teenagers and X's Paris offices were raided by the Paris Public Prosecutor’s office.

🔴 Musk also labeled Sanchez a "tyrant and traitor to the people of Spain" after Sanchez said social media is a "failed state where laws are ignored and crimes are tolerated" and accused X of amplifying disinformation over Madrid’s regularisation of 500,000 undocumented immigrants.

🔴 The Paris Public Prosecutor’s office raided X’s Paris headquarters in a cyber crime probe into alleged manipulation of algorithms, fraudulent data extraction and use of AI chatbot Grok to produce child abuse images and sexually explicit deepfakes; X called the raid "an abusive and illegitimate" politicized action.

🔴 Elon Musk and former CEO of X Corp Linda Yaccarino have been summoned to a voluntary hearing on 20 April; investigations into Grok and xAI are also open by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, the European Commission and Ofcom, and X said it implemented technological measures in mid‑January to prevent misuse.

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🇮🇱 🇵🇸 ⚡️ — NEW: IDF says it struck and eliminated Ali Raziana, who served as the Commander of the Northern Gaza Brigade in the Islamic Jihad organization.

🔴 Raziana was a member of Islamic Jihad’s military high command, coordinated with Hamas to carry out attacks against IDF troops, oversaw hostage holding in northern Gaza, and moved to reestablish the Northern Gaza Brigade after the ceasefire.

🔴 The IDF and ISA also announced the killing of Muhammad Issam Hassan al‑Habil, who Shin Bet interrogations tied to the killing of IDF Cpl. Noa Marciano; Israeli forces said the strike brings closure for the Marciano family.

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🇮🇱 🇵🇸 — BREAKING: Israeli strikes killed at least 23 Palestinians in Gaza, shattering the idea that a “ceasefire” is in effect.

🔴 At least 23 people were killed, many of them children, in widespread attacks across Gaza.

🔴 The strikes occurred on Wednesday, 4 Feb 2026, according to the report.

🔴 Al Jazeera characterizes the raids as undermining the notion that a ceasefire was in place.

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