Protests in the mainly Arab-populated regions of southwestern Iran entered their second week April 5, with at least 160 people detained in the oil-rich Khuzestan province. According to local reports, anger flared after a TV show aired on state-run media showing a child fixing dolls dressed in different traditional garments onto a map of Iran without a doll representing Arab dress.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman has condemned a demand by U.S. prosecutors that a Turkish Halkbank executive get 20 years in prison for helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions.
Britain has opened its first permanent military base in the Middle East in more than four decades – a facility in Bahrain that gives the United Kingdom a stronger presence along key international shipping routes.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit U.S. President Donald Trump on April 27, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday, as differences over a nuclear deal with Iran and trade cast a shadow over the transatlantic relationship.
The Cannes film festival will open next month with Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's new film Everybody Knows.
A woman shot and wounded three people at YouTube's headquarters in California before killing herself, U.S. police say.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have agreed to speed up the delivery of S-400 air-defense missile systems to Ankara, a purchase that has raised concern among Turkey's NATO partners.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin have formally launched the construction of Turkey's first nuclear power plant – a $20 billion project in Turkey’s southern Mediterranean coastal region of Mersin.
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