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US envoy Steve Witkoff has announced the start of phase two of President Donald Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza, with a technocratic Palestinian government established in the territory, BBC reported. 

Under phase one, Hamas and Israel agreed a ceasefire in October, as well as a hostage-prisoner exchange, a partial Israeli withdrawal, and an aid surge.

Witkoff said phase two would also see the reconstruction and full demilitarisation of Gaza, including the disarmament of Hamas and other Palestinian groups, according to BBC. 

The US and UK are reducing the number of personnel at the Al-Udeid air base in Qatar, as US President Donald Trump considers whether to take action against Iran over its crackdown on anti-government protests, BBC reported. 

Officials have told CBS, the BBC's US partner, that the partial American withdrawal was a "precautionary measure". The BBC understands some UK military personnel are also being removed. 

A Qatari government statement said the measures reportedly being taken by the US were "in response to the current regional tensions".

Denmark's foreign minister has said there is a "fundamental disagreement" with the US over Greenland after talks at the White House, BBC reported. 

Lars Lokke Rasmussen said the meeting with Vice-President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday had been "frank but constructive". But he added that US President Trump was insisting on "conquering" Greenland which was "totally unacceptable". 

"We made it very, very clear that this is not in the interest of [Denmark]," he said, according to BBC. 

The Special General Convention of the Nepali Congress has elected Pradeep Paudel and Gururaj Ghimire as party General Secretaries.

The general convention representatives unanimously elected Paudel and Ghimire as the party general secretaries.

Similarly, Gagan Kumar Thapa has been unanimously elected as the President and Bishwo Prakash Sharma and Pushpa Bhusal as the Vice Presidents.