🇺🇸⚡️- President Biden warns of a “tech industrial complex” in his farewell address.

🇺🇸⚡️- Donald Trump's official presidential portrait has been published ahead of his inauguration in 5 days.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Xiaohongshu, better known as RedNote, is panic hiring English speaking content moderators as millions of Americans download the app in preparation for the TikTok ban.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- American alternative streaming platform Kick has offered to purchase TikTok.

Many different parties are throwing their hat in the ring to potentially purchase TikTok in order to avert its imminent shutdown on Sunday, including Elon Musk, Jimmy Donaldson (better known as Mr. Beast) and even Rumble.

🇺🇸 - Incoming (overweight) Vice President JD Vance's official portrait is a lot less powerful, as shown in this inauguration pamphlet.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in Nir Am, next to Sderot, southern Israel.

🇪🇬🇶🇦⚡️- Egypt and Qatar are calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities, rather than waiting for the ceasefire to officially go into effect on Friday.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Ansarullah has announced the end of military operations against Israel, due to the ceasefire agreement in Gaza.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has promised his ministers that the war in Gaza would resume after the first phase of the deal, according to Israeli media reports, despite US statements that the deal would lead to a permanent truce." - Guy Elster, independent correspondent for Walla.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "Religious Zionism MK says party will likely resign from government over hostage deal." - Times of Israel.

🇬🇧⚡️- Office for National Statistics revealed that the UK economy remained stagnant in November 2024 only growing by 0.1%

⚡️Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International: The Beirut Port explosion investigation case has regained momentum again, as the judicial investigator, Judge Tarek Bitar, is preparing a list of names of people who will be interrogated in subsequent sessions, to be notified by the directives.

This activity was supposed to start in September, but due to the Pager incident and the intensification of the war on Lebanon, Bitar delayed the case.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: The Office of Prime Minister Netanyahu claims that Hamas has reneged on the ceasefire agreement, "causing a last-minute crisis blocking the deal."

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The Office of the Prime Minister also says that there will be no meeting of the cabinet to confirm the ceasefire agreement.

🇩🇪🇱🇧⚡️- German air carrier Lufthansa stated it will not be offering flights to and from Beirut until February 28th, 2025.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "Israel will not withdraw from the Philadelphi corridor." - Al-Arabiya, Saudi state outlet, quoting an Israeli security source.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 - A note for our viewers: Israel verbally agreed to this condition in the latest round of negotiations. The ceasefire deal has already collapsed, and it hasn't even gone into effect.