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A Lebanese businessman who was convicted for laundering money to Hezbollah returned to his home country after his early release.
Scientists and officials in several Muslim-majority countries have expressed concerns over the potential spread of Covid-19 at sacrificial livestock markets.
Omar Radi, who Amnesty had previously warned was targeted by Israeli spyware but accused by authorities of being a 'foreign spy', was arrested on Monday for 'public drunkenness and violence.
In today's roundup: Egyptian actor Ragaa al-Geddawy dies after contracting the COVID-19, Iran and Morocco report new record one-day virus death toll and the Gulf sees a spike in infections.
Morocco has reported 698 new cases of coronavirus infections, the highest ever daily number since March, after an outbreak at a fish canning factory in the city of Safi
Morocco has demanded Amnesty International prove that it has deployed spyware on a journalist.
Since the outbreak of Covid-19, the Algerian government has passed two laws endangering the freedoms of the Amazigh people, according to Minority Rights Group International.
In Iran, nearly 11,000 have died due to Covid-19, whereas Turkey is urging the EU to include it in the list of 'safe' coronavirus partners.
The WHO confirmed on Sunday there were more than one million cases of the COVID-19 disease stretching from Morocco to Pakistan.
Israel's security agency has accused a Lebanon-based Palestinian journalist of attempting to recruit Palestinian Israelis to join Islamist group Hezbollah.
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