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📰News: Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Education has begun enforcing a ban on hijab in schools. [@BBCWorld]

🚨New: A "major incident" has been declared and homes have been evacuated in a village near an RAF base which hosts the United States Air Force. Several men have been arrested on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act, police said. [@BBCNews]

📰News: A car smashed into the gates of a mosque in Cornwall before two people poured a liquid, thought to be oil, around the building. The incident is being treated as racially aggravated criminal damage. [@Taj_Ali1]

🚨New: At least 16 killed in an attack on a mosque in north-western Pakistan. A vehicle loaded with explosives rammed into the mosque. [@BBCNews]

📰News: A 21-year-old man, Illia Bilyk, from Forest Gate, has been charged after five Islamic buildings were sprayed with offensive graffiti in January last year. [@BBCNews]

🚨New: Saudi Arabia intercepted and destroyed a Houthi drone south of Makkah on Tuesday evening, according to the spokesman of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. [@BBCNews]

📰News: The Government is consulting on UK wedding law reforms. 🏢 Shift from Buildings to Officiants: Authorisation moves from licensed venues to individuals. Nominated Islamic officiants will be legally empowered to conduct civil marriages directly. 📍 Venue requirements: Removes requirement for ceremonies to occur in registered places of worship, allowing legal Nikahs in private homes, community halls, or outdoor locations. 📜 Single Legal Process: Integrates civil legal recognition directly into the Nikah ceremony, removing the need for a separate civil registry event. 🗣️ Religious Vows: Allows legal consent to be given through traditional Islamic rituals and consent phrases rather than mandatory civil text. Read in full: assets.publishing.service.go…

🚨New: MPs have voted against the Terminall Ill Adults (End of Life) bill. Ayes: 270 Noes: 286

📰News: Austria’s law banning headscarves in schools for girls under 14 has gone into force. The law forbids "traditional Muslim" head coverings, such as hijabs or burkas, in public and private schools across the country. [@BBCNews]

🚨New: Andy Burnham will announce a trade ban on Tuesday on Israeli settlements in the West Bank. He will say that Britain will not stand back and accept the “destruction of the two-state solution”. [@Steven_Swinford]

🚨New: The Prime Minister has said that the Government will remain neutral on the assisted dying bill.

🚨New: The Government has announced approximately £10 billion funding for council housebuilding, most of which will be for social rent. [@andyburnham]

📰News: The US has removed Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism after 47 years, lifting what it said was the "final major barriers" for private sector investment in the country and its reintegration into the global economy. [@BBCNews]

🚨New: The UK, France, Germany and Italy have condemned as "unacceptable" the Israeli government's decision to publish tenders to build a settlement that could kill off any two-state solution. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband called it a "destructive act" and summoned Israel's top diplomat in the UK. The E1 settlement project would cut the occupied West Bank off from East Jerusalem, which Palestinians consider the capital of their future state. [@Channel4News]