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Reports of Islamophobia increased by at least four times in the two weeks following the Christchurch massacre in New Zealand, according to a new report released by the Australian Islamophobia register.

The Lebanese Forces join a growing number of parties competing for seats in Lebanon's 2022 elections, widely seen as a referendum on Lebanon's traditional power structures.

The Hamas-run Interior Ministry announced that a second group of Gaza-based pilgrims left the coastal enclave on Tuesday, heading to Saudi Arabia to perform the Umrah after a two-year suspension due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Sudanese security forces attempted to rape a young woman during protests against military rule in Khartoum on Monday, a Sudanese ministry official said.

Advertisements for Royal Air Maroc’s Tel Aviv commercial flights were unveiled across different cities in Morocco and Israel promoting direct flights between the two countries, upsetting many Moroccans who continue to protest the normalisation deal.

GCC officials say they are considering inviting Yemen's Houthi rebels for talks in Riyadh as the country's devastating conflict enters its eighth year.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says that new US sanctions on Russia will have an effect on efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers

The Gaza-based Palestinian Water Authority announces on Tuesday that 35% of the population in the besieged coastal enclave now can drink fresh water from the tap at home after a series of projects were completed.

Detained British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had her British passport returned according to British MP Tulip Siddiq, as her lawyer said he was "hopeful there would be good news soon"

Israel said Monday it will not "bypass" Western sanctions on Moscow as Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke to Russia's president in a new bid to mediate and end to the war in Ukraine.