Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s choice for Director of the Office of Management and Budget | Photo Credit: AP The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down an agency that was created to protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage-lending scandal. … Read more
Israeli forces withdrew from a key Gaza corridor on Sunday, Israeli officials and Hamas said, part of Israel’s commitments under a tenuous ceasefire deal with Hamas that is moving ahead but faces a major test over whether the sides can negotiate its planned extension. Israel agreed as part of the truce to remove its forces … Read more
The present period is proving to be an unpredictable one for most parts of the world. Violence is raging across parts of Europe and in West Asia, while several other regions are facing internecine conflicts to varying degrees. At the risk of repetition, it can be said that the world order after 1945 has broken … Read more
President Donald Trump meets with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. | Photo Credit: AP US President Donald Trump’s plan to take over Gaza will imperil attempts to forge landmark ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel and fuel anti-American sentiment in the … Read more
New Zealand’s Foreign Minister voiced “significant concern” on Sunday as close Pacific partner the Cook Islands prepared to sign a cooperation deal with China. Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown will make a state visit next week to Beijing, where he is expected to sign a “joint action plan” for a “comprehensive strategic partnership” with … Read more
Elon Musk and Donald Trump. U.S. President Donald Trump said in remarks airing on February 9, 2025, that Mr. Musk, who is presiding over a purge of U.S. government jobs, will help find “hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud” in federal agencies. | Photo Credit: AFP U.S. President Donald Trump said in remarks aired … Read more
President Donald Trump is pictured before boarding Air Force One at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in New Orleans, on February 9, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP President Donald Trump said he will announce on Monday (February 10, 2025) that the United States will impose 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports, … Read more
Bengali signage was installed at the Whitechapel station in 2022 to pay tribute to the Bangladeshi community’s contribution to East London. Photo: X/@RupertLowe10 A British MP has received support from tech billionaire Elon Musk after objecting to a signage written in English and Bengali at London’s Whitechapel station and demanding it be in English only. … Read more
Family photographs on the floor in a room of the vandalized residence of Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Bangladesh’s security forces arrested 1,308 people under “Operation Devil Hunt”, launched overnight amid nationwide vandalism as unrest gripped the country for the past four days, … Read more