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US files for warrants to seize dozens more Venezuela-linked oil tankers, sources say
The U.S. government has filed multiple civil forfeiture actions in district courts, primarily in Washington, D.C., enabling the seizure and confiscation of oil cargoes and ships that have been involved in the trade, the sources told Reuters. They declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter. The exact number of seizure warrants the U.S. has filed for, and how many it has already received, is unclear, the sources said, because the filings and legal orders are not public. Dozens have been filed, they added.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-files-warrants-seize-dozens-more-venezuela-linked-oil-tankers-sources-say-2026-01-13/

Argentina Registers Increase in Repression During Milei’s Term
The document denounces a systematic and selective increase in repression, particularly affecting retirees, journalists, human rights defenders, and minors participating in social protests. Fifty-one out of 139 demonstrations monitored between 2024 and 2025 were met with repression. Over two years, 2,585 injuries were recorded, including 155 senior citizens in 2025, five children exposed to tear gas, and 184 journalists affected by the repression. The use of rubber bullets at point-blank range, tear gas grenades, Byrna pistols, and water cannons violates international protocols.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/argentina-registers-increase-in-repression-during-mileis-term/

Plane used in boat strike off Venezuela was painted to look like a civilian aircraft, AP sources say
The plane, part of a secret U.S. fleet used in surveillance operations, also was carrying munitions in the fuselage, rather than beneath the aircraft, raising questions about the extent to which the operation was disguised in ways that run contrary to military protocol. Details of the plane’s appearance, first reported Monday by The New York Times, were confirmed by two people familiar with the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.
https://apnews.com/article/drug-boats-trump-military-law-venezuela-beb8ebd91d8c2d8950c9438ad379d5b2

Turkish-backed factions shell vicinity of Teshrin Dam
SOHR activists monitored a new military escalation in northern and eastern of Syria, where Ankara-backed factions working for the Ministry of Defence of the Interim government shelled the strategic Teshrin Dam at Euphrates River.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/376318/

Iran forms task force to study 'Gen Z anger' amid protests
At a press conference, Mohajerani acknowledged government shortcomings but said "not everything that happened was of its making". She said authorities had "heard the voice of the people", announcing the formation of a fact-finding committee and the inclusion of public demands on the government's agenda. She expressed condolences to families who lost relatives during the unrest, saying protesters were calling for "respect, a decent living, and a dignified life", and warned that Iranian society was in urgent need of solidarity.
https://www.newarab.com/news/iran-forms-task-force-study-gen-z-anger-amid-protests

US labels Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan as ‘terrorists’
The United States has designated Muslim Brotherhood organisations in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan as “terrorist” groups, the administration of President Donald Trump announces, as Washington intensifies its crackdown on Israel’s rivals across the world. The decision on Tuesday came weeks after Trump issued an executive order directing his administration to start the process of blacklisting the groups.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/13/us-labels-muslim-brotherhood-orgs-in-egypt-lebanon-jordan-as-terrorist
https://archive.ph/7w9nK

Somalia cancels all agreements with the UAE over alleged sovereignty violations
Authorities say the agreements, which span key port operations, security co-operation and defence, have been stopped because of “harmful actions” of the UAE that undermine Somalia’s unity and sovereignty. The announcement is clearly linked to Israel’s recognition in December of Somaliland, a self-declared independent region in north-western Somalia that broke away in 1991, said Abdinor Dahir, an independent Somalia analyst.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/somalia-cancels-all-agreements-uae-over-alleged-sovereignty-violations

Cosatu’s Shingange challenges Mantashe on youth unemployment claims
In an interview with South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) News, Mantashe said that young people are passive when it comes to applying for job opportunities. Shingange says maybe Mantashe has not come across young people who are applying for jobs. He says maybe the youth should hand their CVs over to Mantashe at Saturday’s anniversary celebrations taking place at the Moruleng Stadium in the North West. “If his government is of the view that the young people have not been looking for jobs, perhaps he has not come across them looking for jobs. So maybe they must give him CVs here. We agree. They have been looking for jobs and it’s not true that they have not been looking for jobs. If you have not seen them, perhaps he must receive the CVs here from them,” says Shingange.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/cosatus-shingange-challenges-mantashe-on-youth-unemployment-claims/

US State Department threatens UK over probe into Elon Musk’s X
Rogers, an appointee of President Donald Trump, has repeatedly criticized European efforts to crack down on hate speech. She was involved in last month’s State Department decision to sanction former European Commissioner Thierry Breton and four other European nationals involved in efforts to curb the spread of disinformation.
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-state-department-threaten-uk-probe-elon-musk-x-grok/
https://archive.ph/9S1YT

UK teenager goes on trial accused of preparing far-right attack
The boy, now 16 and who cannot be named for legal reasons, downloaded and shared videos of attacks, shootings and beheadings, expressed his admiration for Adolf Hitler, and kept notebooks where he wrote of his hatred for Jews and black people, prosecutor Michelle Heeley said.
https://www.newarab.com/news/uk-teenager-goes-trial-accused-preparing-far-right-attack

Attica taxi drivers launch strikes over taxes, electric transition
SATA said the compulsory shift to electric cars threatens the sector’s survival without adequate charging infrastructure, affordable electricity prices or realistic vehicle costs, adding that such a move amounts to “economic destruction rather than green development.”
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1292194/attica-taxi-drivers-launch-strikes-over-taxes-electric-transition/

Hungary grants asylum to former Polish minister amid abuse of power investigation
On Monday he said on social media that he was determined to “fight against political banditry and lawlessness”, claiming he was a victim of a “personal vendetta” from Tusk. “I have decided to remain abroad until genuine guarantees of the rule of law are restored in Poland,” he said, thanking Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, for granting him asylum.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/12/hungary-grants-asylum-to-former-polish-minister-zbigniew-ziobro-abuse-of-power-investigation

Puerto Rico announces compulsory visits to assess conditions in housing projects
The announcement comes a week after neighbors in the U.S. territory’s biggest public housing project denounced alleged subhuman conditions of an apartment where a mother and her two children were living. The investigation is ongoing, with authorities noting the family has fled.
https://apnews.com/article/puerto-rico-public-housing-compulsory-visits-3d24d7c4891f539fd04de99f6e968e2d

US Supreme Court conservatives lean toward allowing transgender sports bans
The justices heard more than three hours of arguments in appeals by Idaho and West Virginia of decisions by lower courts siding with transgender students who challenged the bans in the two states as violating the U.S. Constitution and a federal anti-discrimination law. Twenty-five other states have similar laws on the books.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-hears-challenge-transgender-sports-bans-2026-01-13/

Congressional progressives vow to block DHS funding without reforms
The declaration by the Democratic-aligned Congressional Progressive caucus comes as the Senate and House of Representatives race to meet an end-of-the-month deadline to approve a series of funding bills or risk a partial government shutdown. The debate over DHS funding has been rocked by last week’s fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent after the Trump administration ordered a surge of federal officers into the city amid its push for mass deportations.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/dhs-funding-congress-progressives

6 Federal Prosecutors Resign as Trump DOJ Pushes for Investigation Into Renee Good’s Wife
A top prosecutor in the US attorney’s office in Minnesota who for years oversaw a major fraud investigation in the state was among six federal prosecutors who resigned Tuesday as the Trump administration demanded they investigate Becca Good, the widow of the Minneapolis resident who was killed by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent last week.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/minnesota-fraud-investigation

EPA proposes limiting power of states and tribes to block major projects over water concerns
The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed limiting states’ and Native American tribes’ power to wield the Clean Water Act to block major projects like natural gas pipelines, advancing the Trump administration’s goal of accelerating the construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure and data centers.
https://apnews.com/article/water-trump-epa-section-401-data-centers-42716f21a37cadf624e2d7dee05fa3c3

Cold weather and data centres drive up US greenhouse gas emissions
Last year homes burned more gas for heating while the use of coal surged by 13% to meet rising electricity demands, the data finds. Although solar power also shot up last year, overall, greenhouse gas emissions went up by 2.4% after two years of decreases, outpacing the level of economic growth, according to estimates from the Rhodium Group. The authors say the policies of the Trump administration didn't "meaningfully impact" the rise in emissions but they expect this to change in the coming years.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9r3832j47o

LA Protester Permanently Blinded After DHS Agent Unloads ‘Nonlethal’ Round Into His Face
A young protester in Santa Ana is permanently blind in one eye after being hit in the face at close range by a “nonlethal” round fired by a Department of Homeland Security agent last week amid nationwide protests against an immigration agent’s killing of US citizen Renee Good in Minneapolis.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-protester-blinded-santa-ana

Tudeh Party of Iran, Iran on the Brink of Potentially Devastating Transformations: The Urgent Need for Immediate Action to Save the Country from Dictatorship
It must be stated clearly once again that the outbreak of the current protest uprising and its expansion over the past 15 days are rooted directly in the rapid spread of poverty, inequality, and blatant injustice, as well as corruption and the wealth accumulation of a small minority as a result of the government’s economic policies over the past three decades—not in demands for the return of monarchy or the restoration of royal rule. Moreover, alongside the heroic struggle of hundreds of thousands of people against despotism and class oppression, it is evident that certain organized elements and groups, through acts of sabotage and violence, are attempting to pave the way for direct intervention by the United States and its allies in the course of the current protests. In this way, the catastrophic consequences of the ruling theocratic regime’s domestic policies, combined with the devastating impact of U.S. sanctions on people’s lives and livelihoods, have placed the country today in an extremely difficult situation. Imperialist media outlets, once again relying on their vast resources and capabilities, have launched propaganda campaigns and disseminated fabricated narratives aimed at restoring the monarchy. They are attempting to ride the wave of the people’s legitimate protests and divert the anti-dictatorship movement from its true path. On the one hand, these media provide an excuse for regime leaders to label the people’s protest uprising as the work of the United States and Israel; on the other hand, by exaggerating monarchist currents, they seek to create obstacles in the process of building unity and practical coordination among progressive and national forces.
https://www.solidnet.org/article/Tudeh-Party-of-Iran-Iran-on-the-Brink-of-Potentially-Devastating-Transformations-The-Urgent-Need-for-Immediate-Action-to-Save-the-Country-from-Dictatorship/

TKP-ML IB: We salute the struggle of the Iranian people!
Protests that began in Iran on 28 December and quickly spread across the country have been ongoing for two weeks. At least 65 people have been killed and more than 2,300 arrested in the last 13 days. It has been reported that protests have taken place in 180 cities across 31 provinces, at over 500 locations. The Islamic Republic of Iran is not content with merely attacking and killing the Iranian people. In parallel with these attacks, it resorts to widespread internet blackouts, propagating that “external forces” are behind the actions of the Iranian people, and wages a counter-revolutionary war through the media. Despite these attacks by the reactionary Iranian regime, the people’s actions, particularly night protests, neighbourhood meetings, and chanting slogans from rooftops, continue in many cities. The actions of the Iranian people are not new. Over the last thirty years, there have been five major uprisings and many regional struggles for regime change. For example, alongside the politically-driven movements of 2006 and 2009, the urban protests that began in Mashhad in December 2016 quickly became politicised; in November 2018, the movement triggered by demonstrations against rising petrol prices and the cost of living rapidly became politicised; In September 2022, protests that began with Jina Mahsa Amini’s murder turned into the ‘Jin Jiyan Azadi’ uprising.
https://www.tkpml.com/tkp-ml-ib-we-salute-the-struggle-of-the-iranian-people/

The New York Times Support for Israel Never Ends
The New York Times’ one-sided support for Israel began with Israeli independence in 1948. Last week’s front-page piece on Israel and New York mayor Zohran Mamdani indicates it will continue to do so. The article, titled “Israeli Government Accuses Mamdani of Antisemitism Over Canceled Orders,” hardly belonged on the front page. Israel’s condemnation of Mamdani has been consistent, particularly after he became the favorite in New York City’s mayoral election. The Times has been unfairly critical of Mamdani from the start, and it is only beginning to acknowledge that he has ideas and plans that would benefit the city. Giving ammunition to Israel and the Times was Mamdani’s reversal, on his first day in office, of his predecessor’s action to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Association’s definition of antisemitism, which threatened to impinge on Americans’ freedom of speech. Mamdani made it clear in the campaign that he would move in this direction, which was opposed by the editorial staff of the Times. Several days after the front-page article, the Times followed up with a long piece that favored Israel and criticized Mamdani once again.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/12/the-new-york-times-support-for-israel-never-ends/

Loads of Somali scammers uncovered in Sweden.

Also, Nick Shirley is set to testify in front of Congress next week.

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FUCK YOU, BAD NEWS ANON! You suck!


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