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Trump joined by women athletes signs the “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order on February 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. The executive order prohibits transgender women from competing in women’s sports and is the third order he has signed that targets transgender people. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Trump joined by women athletes signs the “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order on February 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. The executive order prohibits transgender wom

The US has announced the launch of ‘phase two’ of plan to end the Gaza war, but most of the goals in Trump’s 20-point plan never became a reality on the ground. Al Jazeera The US has announced the Gaza ceasefire is moving to phase two, where “demilitarisation, technocratic governance, and reconstruction” will be the focus. Hamas leaders and representatives of other Palestinian factions in Gaza are in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, for talks, but deep uncertainty remains regard

US president issues latest threat to midwestern state, where protests have continued after ICE agent killed woman. An ICE agent detains a person in Minneapolis, Minnesota [Stephen Maturen/AFP] United States President Donald Trump has said that a “day of reckoning and retribution” is coming to Minnesota, as outrage and protests have continued days after an immigration agent fatally shot a woman in the state’s largest city, Minneapolis. Trump did not provide further details on

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attacks an army base in the southeastern city of Sinja with drones. The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces reportedly launched the drone attack as a warning to government forces returning to Khartoum [File: Ashraf Shazly/AFP] The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed 27 people in a reported drone attack on a Sudanese army base in the southeastern city of Sinja, a military source told Al Jazeera. Monday’s attack co

Protesters gathered in a street in Tehran on Friday, 9 January | MAHSA / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images Iran has warned it will retaliate if attacked by the US, as protesters defied a deadly government crackdown on Saturday night. Videos verified by the BBC and eyewitness accounts appeared to show the government ramping up its response to the protests, which have spread to more than 100 cities and towns across every province in Iran. Medics at two hospitals have to

Parliament speaker warns US against any attack after Trump threatens military strikes amid nationwide protests. Human rights groups have urged restraint amid reports of protest-related casualties and mass arrests [Screengrab/Al Jazeera] Iran’s state media say dozens of members of the security forces have been killed during protests against an economic crisis, as the parliament speaker warns the United States and Israel of retaliatory strikes if Washington attacks the country

The president has said he will be “hitting them very hard” if Iranian leaders kill protesters amid widespread demonstrations calling for wholesale changes in the country. Demonstrators protested in Tehran on Thursday.Credit ...UGS/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images President Trump has been briefed in recent days on new options for military strikes in Iran as he considers following through on his threat to attack the country for cracking down on protesters, according to multi

The airstrikes followed an even larger attack in December to avenge the killing of three Americans last year. A view of the Sheikh Maksoud neighborhood amid fighting in Aleppo, Syria, on Jan. 10.Credit ...Adri Salido/Getty Images The United States carried out major airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria on Saturday, following up on even larger retaliatory attacks last month to avenge the deaths of two U.S. Army soldiers and a U.S. civilian interpreter killed in a terr

The fighting presents yet another challenge for a country struggling to forge a new path since the ousting of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad a year ago. Residents flee the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on January 9, 2026, GHAITH ALSAYED / AP Syria's army renewed strikes on a Kurdish district of Aleppo on Friday, January 9, after fighters from the minority refused to leave in defiance of a ceasefire that sought to halt days of fighting. The government and Kurdi

Renee Nicole Good was an award-winning poet/Photo Credit: BBC The woman shot dead by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis has been identified as Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had just moved to the city. She was a prize-winning poet and a hobby guitarist, who city leaders have said was there as a legal observer of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities. But the Trump administration has called her a "domestic terrorist". Good's death h