Russian Shahed drones can now fly at ultra-low altitudes under manual control. This makes them harder to detect on radar, allowing them to appear seemingly out of nowhere for several days in a row.
However, Ukrainian media report that the use of such drones remains limited.
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The U.S. has returned a seized tanker to Venezuela for the first time
This is the first known case of the Trump administration returning a tanker. The vessel in question is the Panama-flagged M/T Sophia.
Officials did not disclose the reason for the return, and it remains unclear whether the tanker was empty or carrying cargo.
The U.S. Coast Guard, with military support, intercepted the Sophia on January 7, just days after a U.S. special forces operation to capture Maduro. At the time, Washington said the vessel was under sanctions, “stateless,” and part of Venezuela’s “shadow fleet.”
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After noticing that attention deficit disorders had sharply increased among pupils in the past five years, a Cape Town high school decided to turn phone-free. Expecting a backlash, it got none. This comes as increasingly more countries are worrying about the impact of phone use and social media on children and teenagers’ learning capacity and concentration. So far, 400 South African schools have adopted this measure.
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Espionage: EU reporting requirement for Russian diplomats in forcehttps://t.co/Pv7t5kYXKB
— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) January 29, 2026
How BP’s interests drive UK support for wars, coups and dictators.
Fast forward 40 years, and MI6 was reportedly involved in two coups in oil-rich Azerbaijan, in 1992 and 1993, to promote British – specifically BP’s – oil interests in the country. markcurtis.info/2023/08/19/h…— Emin Bred (@emin_bred) Jan 29, 2026
People’s Artist Emin Agalarov (EMIN) has released a new song. It is the first official single from his highly anticipated English-language album Maybe Tomorrow, due out in March 2026, Azernews reports.
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On January 29, Goga Gulordava, a former Georgian Dream MP, was elected Chair of the Communications Commission (ComCom), Georgia’s state media regulator, for a three-year term. He was the sole candidate for the position and was unanimously approved by ComCom members in a secret ballot.
He will thus assume leadership of the institution that has played a key role in enforcing parts of the recently enacted restrictive legislation targeting the media, particularly laws affecting radio and television broadcasters, introducing stricter content regulations and bans on foreign funding.
Gulordava replaces Kakha Bekauri, who had headed the Commission for two terms since 2017 and is currently under sanctions of Lithuania and Ukraine. Bekauri was also named in a European Parliament resolution as part of what it described as Bidzina Ivanishvili’s “network of enablers, elite entourage, corrupt financial operatives, propagandists,” and the resolution called for EU sanctions against those individuals.
Gulordava joined as a ComCom member in December 2025. He served as a Georgian Dream MP for the Western Georgian constituency of Tsalenjikha from 2016 to 2020 and earlier headed the Tsalenjikha Municipality Administration between 2013 and 2016. He is a lawyer by profession.
According to ComCom, Gulordava previously worked for two years as a financial monitor and auditor at the pro-government TV Imedi. From 2020 to 2025, he served as an adviser to the General Director of the Georgian State Electrosystem and later as the agency’s Director of Internal Audit.
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