🇺🇸⚡️- ICE launched an immigration enforcement operation today in Maine, titled “Operation Catch of the Day.” The operation began in Maine’s greater Portland area, where up to 50 illegal immigrants were arrested.

ICE Deputy Assistant Director Patricia Hyde stated the operation targeted 1,400 illegals with national backgrounds such as Senegal, Somalia, Honduras, Guatemala, and the Congo.

Hyde’s comments signal a willingness from ICE to be more transparent, as escalations have only risen since the excursion into Minneapolis and the deadly shooting of Renee Good, along with administrative leaks to the press communicating President Trump’s concern about the “look” of the ICE operations. - POLITICO.

🇺🇸 - Four aerial tanker from Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, perform something very unusual over Montana, and then head back home.

🇪🇹🇸🇴⚡- Somali separatists, the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), have declared the 2018 peace deal with Addis Ababa nullified. ONLF announced it will restart military operations, advocating for the independence of Ogaden from Ethiopia.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡️- "Emboldened by the U.S. ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration is searching for Cuban government insiders who can help cut a deal to push out the Communist regime by the end of the year.

The Trump administration has assessed Cuba’s economy as being close to collapse and that the government has never been this fragile after losing a vital benefactor in Maduro, these people said. Officials don’t have a concrete plan to end the Communist government that has held power on the Caribbean island for almost seven decades, but they see Maduro’s capture and subsequent concessions from his allies left behind as a blueprint and a warning for Cuba, senior U.S. officials said." - The Wall Street Journal

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- American's approval of the military operation to oust Maduro has skyrocketed in the weeks after its success.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- “Our finger is on the trigger, and we warn America and the Zionist entity against making any miscalculations.” - IRGC Commander Major General Mohammed Pakpour.

— 🇮🇳 Four Indian Army personnel have reportedly lost their lives in a road accident this morning.

— Several other injured personnel have been airlifted to Udhampur hospital for medical treatment.

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— Death toll rises to 10.

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🇺🇸🇨🇭⚡- President Trump and other world leaders sign the Charter for the Board of Peace in Davos, Switzerland.

Most of Europe and the far-east Asia have decided against joining the organization. Russia and China have yet to officially join as well.

🇸🇾⚡- Syrian government forces have advanced in the Ayn al-Arab direction, approaching the major town of Qanaya from three different directions.

The SDF are mounting a stiff resistance in the town, with violent clashes ongoing.

🇪🇸⚡️- Another accident occured today as a train directly hit a crane in Carthagena, Spain.

🇺🇸🇫🇮🇷🇺⚡- "What the United States did in Venezuela in 12 hours is an operation that the Russians wanted to do in Ukraine, but with total failure. Don't buy into this narrative that Russia is somehow winning the war.

Russia lost 34,000 soldiers, dead soldiers, in December, for what? To take Kupyansk? They didn't even take Kupyansk," - Alexander Stubb, President of Finland, at the WEF summit in Davos.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- “The US has no plans to offer security guarantees to oil companies that plan to operate in Venezuela, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Thursday.” - Bloomberg.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡️- “The Trump administration is actively seeking regime change in Cuba and hopes to cut a deal to end communist rule on the island by the end of the year, according to a report. 

The Jan. 3 military operation to arrest Maduro required help from an asset within the Venezuelan dictator’s inner circle.

To identify a similar potential asset in Cuba, the Trump administration has been meeting with Cuban exiles and civic groups in Miami and Washington, US officials told the Journal.” - NYP.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇭⚡- President Trump met with Ukraine's Zelensky on the sidelines of the WEF summit in Davos. The meeting lasted 90 minutes.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇭⚡- "The meeting [with Ukraine's Zelensky] was good," - President Trump.

🇺🇦🇨🇭⚡- "Last year I ended my speech here that Europe must know how to defend itself. A year has passed, nothing has changed," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, at the WEF summit in Davos.