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Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri has called a parliamentary session for Thursday devoted to discussing an extension to the terms of office for municipal councils.

Dozens of people were taken into custody during a pro-Palestinian demonstration at Yale University on Monday, hours after Columbia canceled in-person classes to deescalate tensions on its New York campus, where police cracked down on a tent encampment last week.

Egyptian officials told the Wall Street Journal that Israel is preparing to move civilians from Rafah to Khan Yunis and other areas, where it plans to set up tent shelters, food distribution centers, and medical facilities such as field hospitals. 

U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria faced two separate rocket and explosive drone attacks in less than 24 hours, Iraqi security sources and U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday, the first reported after a near three-month pause.

Nuclear weapons have no place in Iran's nuclear doctrine, the country's foreign ministry said on Monday.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has accepted the recommendations from an independent review of U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA's ability to ensure neutrality and respond to allegations of breaches, his spokesperson said on Monday.

The head of Israeli military intelligence, who last year accepted responsibility for the failures that allowed the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, has resigned, the military said in a statement on Monday.

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi and Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif vowed on Monday to boost trade between the neighbouring nations to $10 billion a year, as Raisi commenced a three-day visit amid tight security in the Pakistani capital.

At least five rockets were launched from Iraq's town of Zummar towards a U.S. military base in northeastern Syria on Sunday, two Iraqi security sources told Reuters.

Hezbollah, often referred to as the "Party of God," has been implicated in numerous illicit activities worldwide, far beyond its roots as a Lebanese militant group.

This past weekend witnessed an unprecedented movement in Turkey as numerous locals boycotted cafes and restaurants to protest "exorbitant prices.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is set to visit Pakistan from Monday to Wednesday, in a diplomatic move that signifies the first such visit following a brief surge in tensions between the two neighboring countries in January.