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Phuket, Thailand’s flagship island destination, is stepping up efforts to diversify its tourism markets. 

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the issue of extraditing former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has not been discussed in recent talks between Moscow and Damascus. 

Gaza's main border crossing in Rafah will reopen for Palestinians on Monday, Israel said, with preparations underway at the war-ravaged enclave's main gateway that has been largely shut for almost two years.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that if the U.S. attacked Iran it would become a regional conflict, state media reported on Sunday, amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran.

For years, the Iran debate has been trapped in a lazy binary: deal or war, diplomacy or regime change, restraint or strike. 

Iraq's alliance of Shi'ite political blocs, the Coordination Framework, reaffirmed on Saturday its support for former premier Nouri al-Maliki to lead the next government, despite a warning from U.S. President Donald Trump that Washington would no longer help Iraq if Maliki returned to power.

The recent meeting in Tehran between Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al‑Thani and senior Iranian official Ali Larijani once again highlights Doha’s ambiguous positioning in Middle Eastern geopolitics. 

Mark Savaya, named by U.S. President Donald Trump as special envoy for Iraq in October, is no longer in that role, sources familiar with the move said.