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Protests erupted in Stockholm, Helsinki and Paris against Israel's actions in Gaza and Lebanon, with demonstrators calling it ‘genocide’ and urging a halt to arms sales. The world is watching.

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An official from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip 'has become a place of death, not a place of healing.'

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Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has told the UN rights chief that hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh must return home to Myanmar, from where they had fled waves of violent persecution.

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The occupation state forces have detained seventeen Palestinian journalists and media workers in its prison, according to Beirut-based Journalists Support Committee on 1st August 2022.

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India on 22nd July 2022 donated $2.5 million to United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, to help Agency’s services, that includes education, health care, relief and social services for Palestinians.

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United Nations human rights experts on 14th July 2022, urged Israel to immediately release Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Manasra, 20, who was detained at 14 years old and has been suffering serious mental health conditions.

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On the 27th anniversary of the atrocity that killed 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, the Netherlands apologized to the relatives of victims and survivors for Dutch peacekeepers' failure to prevent the slaughter.

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The UN's World Food Programme has announced further reductions of food aid to war-torn Yemen as a result of funding gaps, price rises, the global shortage of wheat supplies, caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the worldwide lockdowns and the Ukraine war.

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The UN Human Rights Office today published a report that, following rigorous assessment and statistical analysis of available data on civilian casualties, estimates that 306,887 civilians* were killed between 1 March 2011 and 31 March 2021 in Syria due to the conflict. This is the highest estimate yet of conflict-related civilian deaths in Syria.

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New US laws prohibiting the entry of goods from China`s Xinjiang region have taken effect. Firms must prove that imports from the region are not made with forced labour in order to comply with the requirements. According to US officials, members of the region`s minority Uyghur group, which is largely Muslim, have been arrested and forced to work.

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The administration of UP had bulldozed the homes of those people who were allegedly involved in protests against BJP leaders' offensive remarks against Prophet Muhammad [PBUH]. Activist Afreen Fatima's house was among the structures that had been demolished.

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India is facing major diplomatic outrage from Muslim-majority countries after top officials in the governing Hindu nationalist party made derogatory references to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad [PBUH].

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This gathering, the ultranationalist flag march marking 1967 occupation and subsequent annexation of East Jerusalem, was one of the sparks that 2021 ignited a war in Gaza, and civil strife between Jews and Palestinians.

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Uyghur county in China has highest prison rate in the world. China continues its crackdown on Muslim-minority Uyghurs with an imprisonment rate 10 times higher than in the US.

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The Senegalese International midfielder missed a Ligue 1 game during which players were to wear rainbow jerseys in support of the LGBTQ movement. Messages of support for Gueye have poured in on social media and from leading figures in politics, the arts and sport.

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A genocide determination does not necessarily mean fresh punitive measures against Myanmar. The formal declaration of genocide could be followed by further limits on aid and other penalties. US also believes it will bolster international efforts to hold the junta accountable.

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Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have welcomed an announcement by the US that it considers the violent repression of largely Muslim ethnic group in Myanmar a genocide. About a million Rohingya refugees live in camps in Cox's Bazar, many residents expressed their enthusiasm.