🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Trump spouts nonsense; the idea that 800 executions were canceled is baseless. A large number of our cases and indictments will proceed." - Tehran Chief Prosecutor Ali Salehi.

🇮🇷⚡️- An image has just emerged showing IRGC snipers positioned on rooftops in Isfahan, Iran, during the peak of last week’s riots to suppress riots and violence.

🇸🇾 - Syrian flag raised in the center of Raqqah city.

✍️ - I didn't cover much of the VERY sudden SDF crackdown, but TL;DR the SDF/Kurds/PKK have been fucking turbo-nuked.

Combine this with utter failure to infiltrate Iran (PJAK fighters got slaughtered) and you can safely assume Kurdish factions and their allies are in a very bad situation across the whole Middle East.

🇬🇧⚡️- An outbreak of tuberculosis infected 10 workers in an Amazon warehouse in Conventry, UK.

🇫🇷🇸🇾⚡️- French President Emmanuel Macron held a phonecall with his Syrian counterpart Ahmed Al-Sharaa and expressed "concern over the escalation of violence in Syria" per the AFP.

✍️ - Preparing a recap on WEF2026

🌐🇨🇭⚡️- The World Economic Forum 2026 will start tomorrow in Davos, Switzerland, and will last for 5 days. The world's most influent individuals will discuss "Which 2050 do we want ?" and will cover 5 major themes :

How can we cooperate in a more contested world ?
How can we unlock new source of growth ?
How can we better invest in people ?
How can we deploy innovation at scale and responsibly ?
How can we build prosperity within planetary boundaries ?

Here are a few examples of programmed subjects within these themes :

"Banking Accelerated"
"Governments as Economic Super Actors"
"Scaling AI : Now Comes the Hard Part"
"Return of Creative Destruction"
"Migration : A New Approach"
"The Intelligent Co-Worker"
"When Food Becomes Security"
"Can We Afford Longevity?"
"Realignments and Surprises in the Middle East"
"A Prosperity Agenda for the Middle East"
"Venezuela: What Next?"
"Is Democracy in Trouble?"

🌐⚡️- There will be notable guest speakers with their own public speech slots, including but not limited to :

🇮🇷Abbas Araghchi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
🇫🇷Emmanuel Macron, French President.
🇩🇪Friedrich Metz, Federal. Chancellor of Germany.
🇺🇸Scott Bessent, US Secretary of the Treasury .
🇺🇸Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir.
🇺🇸Jamie Dimon, CEO and Chairman of JPMorgan Chase.
🇺🇸Donald J. Trump, President of the USA.
🇸🇾Ahmed Al-Sharaa, President of Syria.

🌐🇩🇪⚡️- This yearly World Economic Forum will be the first without the presence of its founder, Klaus Schwab.

Klaus Schwab fully retired from the WEF last April after nearly 50 years of leading the organization without a clear reason given to medias.

The WEF has been led by Børge Brende since 2017.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "There are enough Hetz [Arrow air defense] missiles to intercept Iranian missiles. Production of the Hetz has been running around the clock.

Our interceptors are designed to destroy incoming missiles, 90 per cent were intercepted during the last clash [in June 2024, with Iran]," - Boaz Levy, President of the Israel Aerospace Industries.

🇮🇷⚡- Iranian state media, IRIB, was hacked and began airing Reza Pahlavi's speeches and videos of the recent protests.

⚡️🌐⚡️- IT IS MIDNIGHT.

WEF 2026 STARTS TODAY UNTIL THE 23RD.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- "The Trump administration is discussing whether to offer British Jews asylum in the US, citing a rise in anti-Semitism in the UK.

Trump’s personal attorney Robert Garson said that Britain is 'no longer a safe place for Jews,'" - The Telegraph.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- The story of Iranian Erfan Soltani being beaten to death in custody for protesting has been debunked by the original Israeli source, who stated that he did not make the claim and merely reported it from others.

Unsurprisingly, many major channels quickly broke the story without verifying it beforehand. Rerum Novarum did not.

🇯🇵⚡️- BREAKING : Sanae Takaichi, Japan's Prime Minister, just announced in a press conference that she will dissolve the Japanese Parliament this Friday January 23rd.

🇯🇵⚡️- Snap elections will take place on February 8th.