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Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram were back up on Tuesday after a more than two-hour outage that was caused by a technical issue and impacted hundreds of thousands of users globally.

A party advocating for the independence of the Rif region in Morocco has officially opened an office in Algiers on Tuesday, a move that risks exacerbating already tense relations between the two North African neighbors.

The Council of Europe sounded the alarm on Tuesday over the perilous state of freedom of expression in Turkey, expressing deep concerns about the risk of self-censorship among journalists in the face of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's power.

King Abdullah II of Jordan convened a meeting on Monday with the head of the Hadash-Ta'al list in the Knesset, MK Ayman Odeh, along with members MK Ahmad Tibi and MK Youssef Atauna. 

Ships will have to obtain a permit from Yemen's Houthi-controlled Maritime Affairs Authority before entering Yemeni waters, Houthi Telecommunications Minister Misfer Al-Numair said on Monday.

A team of United Nations experts reported on Monday that there were "reasonable grounds to believe" sexual violence, including rape and gang rape, occurred at several locations during the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas militants.

Inflation in Turkey accelerated once again year-on-year in February, reaching 67.1% compared to 64.9% in January, according to official data released on Monday.

Israel's military spokesperson said on Monday the UN aid agency UNRWA in Gaza employed over 450 "military operatives" from Hamas and other armed groups, and that Israel has shared this intelligence with the United Nations.

U.S. Special Envoy Amos Hochstein said on Monday that a truce in Gaza would not necessarily bring an automatic end to hostilities across Lebanon's southern border and he warned about the risks of an escalation of the conflict.

The United States called for its citizens to leave Haiti "as soon as possible" after violence escalated over the weekend, which saw 15,000 more people flee the fighting and armed men break thousands of inmates from Haiti's largest prison.

Turnout in Iran's parliamentary election was around 41%, the country's interior minister said on Monday, the lowest participation since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution that swept the clerical rulers into power.

Egypt is studying further expansions of the Suez Canal to extend and complete a second channel of the waterway, the canal's head said on Monday, a move that could allow for higher volumes of shipping and prevent blockages from halting traffic.