According to two senior Iranian Health Ministry officials, up to 30,000 people could have been killed on the country's streets on January 8 and 9 alone. They reported this to TIME magazine. The mass killings by Iranian security forces on Thursday and Friday so overwhelmed the government system that authorities were unable to cope with the disposal of bodies. Supplies of body bags were exhausted and 18-wheeler trucks were being used instead of ambulances, the sources said.

A 60-year-old Russian, Mikhail Timofeev, an assistant and political ally of the former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal, was detained in Georgia. This was reported by the Tbilisi Life Telegram channel. The Georgian court arrested Timofeev for three months - during this period the Russian side was given the opportunity to send an official request for extradition. Timofeev was detained on January 23 at the request of the Georgian prosecutor's office.

The oil tanker GRINCH (IMO: 9288851), which is under sanctions from the European Union, Great Britain and the United States and belongs to the Russian “shadow fleet,” was delivered to the coast of southern France and handed over to the prosecutor’s office of Marseille. This is reported by BFMTV with reference to the Mediterranean Maritime Prefecture. The ship is anchored in the Gulf of Foz, approximately 50 kilometers northwest of Marseille, near the oil terminal of the port of Marseille-Foz.

An international group of plaintiffs has filed a class action lawsuit against Meta Platforms, accusing the company of misleading users about the privacy of WhatsApp conversations. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in San Francisco, Bloomberg reports . The plaintiffs claim that Meta and WhatsApp, despite claims of end-to-end encryption, allegedly store, analyze and technically can access the content of user messages.

News The Insider January 25, 2026 Svetlana Surina The Insider found out that investigator of the Ryazan Investigative Committee Svetlana Surina, who for the second time, despite the position of the prosecutor’s office, has decided not to initiate a criminal case into the torture of anarchist Ruslan Sidiki, is the daughter of the former chief of police of the Ryazan region, Vladimir Surin.

The captain of the oil tanker GRINCH (IMO: 9288851), sailing from the Russian Murmansk and belonging to the Russian “shadow fleet”, was placed in custody by the French authorities. BFM TV reports this with reference to the Marseille prosecutor's office.

News The Insider January 25, 2026 Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said the state's National Guard has been activated and is on duty in Minneapolis amid protests over the killing of a local man by federal immigration officials. In response to a question from reporters, Walz said that the decision was made last week: Guard units were transferred to state duty in order to be able to respond more quickly if the situation worsened.