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- Canada keen to expand trade, investment in Bangladesh
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- Trump reportedly asked Zelensky if Ukraine could strike Moscow
- BSB Global Network chairman Bashar placed on 10-day remand
- Consensus reached on holding referendum for amending caretaker government provision: Ali Riaz
- Archbishop invites Prof Yunus to attend interfaith dialogue in Sept
- BNP firmly opposes PR system of elections
- Govt is prioritizing efforts to prevent erosion along the Teesta: Adviser Rizwana
- Rain halts Bangladesh-Bhutan clash after first half
- Proud to stand with Bangladesh in empowering youth through skills: EU
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- Palestinian MP killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza City

Israeli forces kill two more journalists in Gaza
Two more Palestinian journalists have been killed in separate Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll to 231 since the start of the Israeli genocidal war against the besieged coastal territory in early October of last year, Press TV reports. The official Palestinian WAFA news...

Israel bombs Gaza market, water point, as total death toll passes 58,000
Israeli forces have continued to pound Gaza, striking a busy market and a water distribution point, killing at least 95 Palestinians, as the death toll from Israels war on the enclave passed the grim milestone of 58,000. The Israeli attack on the Gaza City market killed at least 17 people on...

Israel turning Gaza into ‘graveyard of children and starving’: UNRWA chief
The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees says Israel is engineering a cruel and Machiavellian scheme to kill in Gaza. The world body reports that since May, some 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid. Under our watch, Gaza has become the graveyard of...

800 killed in Gaza since May 27 trying to get aid: UN
Nearly 800 people have died trying to access aid in Gaza since late May, with most killed near the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundations sites, the UN said Friday, reports BSS. An officially private effort, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began operations on May 26 after...

Clinic in Khan Younis evacuated amid Israeli military advance
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said that an Israeli advance on western Khan Younis in southern Gaza has led it to evacuate a clinic and seriously impacted operations at another, reports Al Jazeera. In a post on social media platform X, the charity said the expansion of an Israeli military...

Reaffirmed hostages release, Hamas defeat in Trump talks: Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he discussed efforts to release hostages held in Gaza and the ongoing military campaign to defeat Hamas during talks at the White House with US President Donald Trump, reports BSS. The meeting on Tuesday was the second in 24 hours between the two...

Five Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza
Five Israeli soldiers were killed in combat in the Gaza Strip, the military said Tuesday, in one of the deadliest days for Israeli forces in the Palestinian territory this year, AFP reports. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lamented a difficult morning as he visited Washington for talks with US...

Fully independent Palestinian state would pose threat to Israel – Netanyahu
Militant groups would use a fully independent Palestinian state to undermine security, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a meeting with US President Donald Trump; reads a Jerusalem Post report. A reporter asked the US president during a dinner with Netanyahu on Monday whether...

First round of Gaza ceasefire talks ends without breakthrough
The latest round of indirect ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas have ended without a breakthrough, a Palestinian official familiar with the negotiations told the media, reports BBC. According to the official, the session lasted for nearly three and a half hours and took place in two...

From Karachi to Gaza: Pakistani startup ships prosthetics to child war survivors
As soon as eight-year-old Sidra Al Bordeeni returned from the clinic with her prosthetic arm, she jumped on a bicycle in the Jordanian refugee camp where she lives, riding for the first time since a missile strike in Gaza took her arm a year ago. Her mother, Sabreen Al Bordeeni, said Gazas...

More than 700 Palestinians killed seeking aid in Gaza
Over the past few weeks, over 700 Palestinians have lost their lives while attempting to obtain food in the Gaza Strip, according to new data from the Gaza Health Ministry. The deaths have sparked fresh criticism of a controversial aid initiative supported by the United States and Israel. The...

Trump says 'could be' Gaza deal by next week
US President Donald Trump has expressed optimism over the prospects of a Gaza ceasefire, saying a breakthrough could come as early as next week. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump welcomed Hamass statement that it had responded to a US-brokered ceasefire proposal in a positive...

Erdogan holds talks with Iranian, Pakistani leaders on trade, Gaza, regional stability
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held separate high-level meetings on Friday with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) summit in the Azerbaijani city of Khankendi, reports Daily Sabah. During...

Violence at Gaza food centres ‘untenable’: EU
The European Union has criticised the situation surrounding the food distribution sites operated by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), reports Al Jazeera. Whats happening around those distribution centres, the situation is untenable. It should not be tolerated, and the...

UN expert urges states to cut Israel trade ties over ‘apocalyptic’ Gaza situation
A UN expert on Thursday called on states to impose an arms embargo and cut off trade and financial ties with Israel, which she alleged is waging a genocidal campaign in Gaza. In a speech to the UN Human Rights Council, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca...

Over 600 killed near Gaza humanitarian convoys: UN
At least 15 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza early Friday, while 20 more died in shootings as they waited for humanitarian aid, according to a hospital morgue that received their bodies, reports UNB. The latest casualties come as the UN human rights office reported Friday...

More than 30 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes since dawn
More than 30 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since Wednesday dawn, sources in the territorys hospitals have told Al Jazeera. Among the deaths were six people killed in a drone strike on tents housing displaced people in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis in southern...

Israel agreed to conditions for 60-day Gaza ceasefire: Trump
US President Donald Trump has said that Israel has agreed to the necessary conditions to finalise a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza. During the proposed deal, we will work with all parties to end the War, Trump said in a post on Truth Social, without detailing what the conditions are. The Qataris...

Israel bombs Gaza cafe, school and aid hubs, killing 95 Palestinians
Israeli airstrikes on Monday targeted a café, a school, and humanitarian aid centers in Gaza, killing at least 95 Palestinians and injuring many others. Among the dead were women, children, and journalist Ismail Abu Hatab. The most lethal strike occurred at Al-Baqa café in northern Gaza City,...

72 killed in Gaza, including hungry Palestinians waiting for food
Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have killed dozens of Palestinians, including people seeking food at aid distribution hubs, as the already catastrophic humanitarian situation in the besieged enclave deteriorates by the day, reports Al Jazeera. Medical sources said on Sunday that at least...

100,000 Palestinians killed in Israel’s Gaza genocide: New study
Researchers have found that almost 100,000 Palestinians have been killed since the start of Israels genocidal war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023. The figure was published in a new study led by University of London economist Professor Michael Spagat and Palestinian political scientist Khalil...

Netanyahu in ‘process of negotiating a deal with Hamas’: Trump
The US President Donald Trump has praised the Israeli prime minister as a war hero in a lengthy post in which he decried Netanyahus prosecution in an ongoing corruption trial, reports BSS. Trumps latest comments, shared in a post on TruthSocial, come days after the US president called for the...

At least 66 children dead of malnutrition in Gaza
At least 66 children have died of malnutrition in Gaza over the course of Israels war, authorities in the Palestinian enclave said, condemning a tightened Israeli siege that has prevented the entry of milk, nutritional supplements and other food aid, reports Al Jazeera. The statement from Gazas...

Opioid pills discovered in US-backed food aid, Gaza authorities say
The Gaza government media office on Friday condemned the discovery of oxycodone pills reportedly discovered in flour bags distributed by American-Israeli aid centres. We have so far documented four testimonies from citizens who found these pills inside the flour bags, it said in a statement,...

Israel kills over 80 in Gaza, 3 killed in settler attack
Medical sources said Israeli forces killed more than 80 individuals in Gaza since dawn, including 14 Palestinians who were in queue near aid distribution centres, reports Al Jazeera. Sources at al-Awda and Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospitals in Gaza told the media that at least nine Palestinians were...

Great progress being made on Gaza: Trump
US President Donald Trump has said he believed that great progress was being made to bring an end Israels war in Gaza, reports Al Jazeera. I think great progress is being made on Gaza, I think because of this attack that we made [on Iran], said Trump, suggesting the US strikes on Iran could have...

US to give $30m to Gaza aid operation despite violence concerns
The US is giving $30 million to a controversial humanitarian group delivering aid in war-torn Gaza despite concern among some US officials about the month-old operation and the killing of Palestinians near food distribution sites, according to four sources and a document seen by Reuters....

Seven Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza fighting
Israels military has released the names of six soldiers who were killed in Gaza, and is withholding the name of a seventh soldier until his family has been notified of his death, Al Jazeera reported. The seven were all killed on Tuesday in Gaza, according to the military, and ranged in age from...