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Palestinians walk past the rubble of buildings destroyed during the Israeli offensive, on a rainy day, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City February 6, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

Middle East

Israel orders army to prepare for 'voluntary departure' of Gazans after Trump unveils plan

Defence Minister Israel Katz hailed Trump's announcement that the United States would aim to take control of Gaza, resettle the more than 2 million Palestinians living there and transform the...

In a joint conference with Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump announced plans for the US to ‘take over’ the Gaza strip. Photo: Reuters.

USA

US military prepared to look at all options for Gaza, US defense secretary says

The scariest aspect of the Trump presidency is that he promotes unpredictability and disruption as his principal techniques of governance and foreign policy. Photo: Reuters

Panorama

The US must avoid isolationism, a path to nowhere

US President Donald Trump looks on as he signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, US, 31 January 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

USA

Hundreds of US government websites go offline

Posters to be distributed to community members ahead of anticipated raids by U.S. Immigrations and Customs (ICE) are stacked on a table in Denver, Colorado, U.S., January 29, 2025. REUTERS/Cheney Orr/File Photo

World+Biz

Trump plans to invoke obscure 18th century wartime law in bid for mass deportations

Representational image. Photo: Reuters

World+Biz

Dollar surges on Trump's tariffs, sending peers to multi-year lows

File photo of icddr,b headquarters in Dhaka. Photo: Mumit M/TBS

Bangladesh

Over 1,000 icddr,b employees laid off due to US funding cuts

Bangladesh Ambassador to Mexico M. Mushfiqul Fazal (Ansarey) meets Chief of Protocol at Mexican Foreign Ministry Jonathan Chait Auerbach on 30 January 2025. Photo: Bangladesh Embassy in Mexico

Bangladesh

Ambassador Mushfiq Fazal for enhancing diplomatic, trade ties with Mexico

US President Donald Trump shows a signed executive order during a rally on the inauguration day of his second Presidential term, inside Capital One, in Washington, US 20 January 2025. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Analysis

How Trump's tariffs can become a curse for US

A Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, 16 November 2018. File Photo: Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Rohingya Crisis

Bangladesh urges US to rehabilitate more Rohingyas

US Science Envoy for Air Quality Dr Jamie Schauer speaks at an event on 16 January 2025. Photo: UNB

Environment

US Science Envoy stresses advanced air quality monitoring in Dhaka

The wind whips embers while a firefighter battles the fire in the Angeles National Forest near Mt. Wilson as the wildfires burn in the Los Angeles area, during the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, U.S. January 9, 2025. Photo: Reuters

USA

Los Angeles wildfires devour thousands of homes, death toll rises to 10

A signal light goes green on the Pacific Coast Highway as a wildfire burns in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of west Los Angeles, January 7. REUTERS/Daniel Cole

World+Biz

Pacific Palisades fire may spell an end to cheap homeowners insurance in California