🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump “plans to roll back tariffs on metal and aluminum goods”. - Financial Times.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "The United States will send the world’s largest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (currently deployed in the Carribbean) to the Middle East to back up the USS Abraham Lincoln," - AP.

🇿🇦⚡- "South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa announced last night that members of the South African National Defence Force will be deployed in the coming days to support policing operations in parts of the Western Cape affected by gang violence and in Gauteng where illegal mining continues to present security and economic risks," - The Southern African Times.

🇺🇸🇨🇭⚡️- Palantir is suing the Swiss magazine "Republik" following a two-part investigative report published in December 2025.

The Swiss journal's articles detailed how Palantir was actively trying to influence Swiss politics, federal authorities and the Swiss army.

However, Swiss civil authorities rejected further ties with Palantir at least 9 times, and Republik is being sued for exposing Palantir's failed attempts.

🇦🇪🇵🇰⚡- The UAE has agreed, for the second time, to roll over Pakistan's $2 billion deposits for two months.

A third tranche of $1 billion is due in July.

🇸🇩⚡- Sudanese airstrikes against Nyala, the capital of the Rapid Support Forces controlled Sudan.

🇸🇩🇪🇹🇸🇴⚡- Sudanese Armed Forces are training Ogaden-Somali separatists, ONLF, in the Galmudug region of northern Somalia, French Think Tank Africa Intelligence reports.

ONLF signed a ceasefire agreement with Addis Ababa in 2018, but after a recent congress last month, the group has decided to restart its military operations. ONLF is present in the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia.

🇫🇷⚡️- A 23 years old right-wing activist in France has been pronounced brain dead following an attack by antifas in Lyon.

🇺🇦🇨🇳🇩🇪⚡- "We appreciate that China supports the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine.

China does not directly supply weapons to Russia, there are cases of selling dual-use products. This issue is being discussed with Beijing.

China is Ukraine's main trading partner. Last year, trade between the countries reached $21 billion. We are interested in further developing cooperation.

I am grateful for Beijing’s decision to provide an additional humanitarian energy assistance package to Ukraine," - Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine's Foreign Minister, met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi at the Munich Security Conference.

🇫🇷⚡️- He has officially passed away.

Quentin was a 23 years old Catholic man. He was murdered by antifas belonging to the Young Guard as he was protecting Némésis, a right-wing feminist group, during an activist action.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump announces that he plans to visit Venezuela.

🇬🇧⚡️- Rupert Lowe has launched his new Restore Britain political party to compete with Reform UK and the Tories.

Previously polling showed a hypothetical Lowe led party would garner 10% of the national vote.

🇨🇺⚡- Fire at Cuba's largest refinery, the Nico Lopez, in Havana.

🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- "The Saudi and Emirati fight has escalated into a social media battle in which Saudis have attacked the UAE as 'Israel’s Trojan horse' and denounced the Abraham Accords, joined by the UAE in 2020, as 'a political military alliance dressed in the garb of religion.'

Emirati officials believe the Saudis are waging a deliberate incitement campaign centered on the UAE’s relationship with Israel. After Saudi Arabia bombed the UAE’s partner forces in Yemen on Dec. 30, Saudi posts criticizing Israel spiked dramatically, with 77 percent of the comments attacking the UAE as 'Israel’s proxy executing Zionist plans to divide Arab states.'

The Trump administration is said to have offered to mediate, but both sides have balked. Because of the intense personal feelings, one US official said, 'This is not something you mediate,'" - The Washington Post.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- “Anthropic’s artificial-intelligence tool Claude was used in the U.S. military’s operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro,” - WSJ.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- “The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack.” - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The next round of scheduled talks between the United States and Iran is set for Tuesday, February 17 and will be held in Geneva, Switzerland.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- “Experts say the risks to U.S. forces would be far greater in such an operation against Iran, which boasts a formidable arsenal of missiles. Retaliatory Iranian strikes also increase the risk of a regional conflict.

The same official said the United States fully expects Iran to retaliate, leading to back-and-forth strikes and reprisals over a period of time.” - Reuters.