GameStop is a troubled video-game store, which has made it a target by the large hedge funds that have betted against it in a process called short selling or “shorting”. Shorting is an investment that speculates on the decline in a stock’s price. The big bets of the financial giants of Wall Street, however, that GameStop’s stock would fall went wrong, leaving them facing billions of dollars in collective losses.

Several people were arrested in the Kaluga region of Russia on charges of involvement in Hizb utTahrir, the FSB's Public Relations Center reported on January, 27. The operation was carried out by joint forces of the FSB and the National Guard.

The United States Senate has confirmed Antony Blinken, President Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of State. Blinken is a very well-known figure in Turkey as well. Under Barack Obama, he particularly had taken part in the negotiations with Syria, ISIS and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and visited Turkey after the July 15 coup attempt.

A recent report by Afghanistan Study Group (ASG), commissioned by the US Congress, recommends the new US administration to extend the deadline of US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan, and any other further reduction of troops should be based on progress on peace talks and reduction of violence by the Taliban.