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Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who won the top prize at the Cannes film festival on Saturday, is a twice-jailed arthouse cinema veteran whose films are banned in his homeland.

The 64-year-old is a symbol of artistic defiance who repeatedly challenges his country’s strict censorship laws to produce movies about Iran’s social and cultural struggles.

His latest production “It Was Just an Accident” tells the story of five formerly imprisoned Iranians who are confronted with a man they believe to…

The Palestinian group Hamas has condemned Israel for committing a “horrific massacre” on Saturday morning, targeting the home of a physician who works at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, and killing nine of her 10 children while critically injuring her husband, Anadolu reports.

The attack exposed Israel’s dark side and the “deep-rooted vengeful spirit driving (Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu and his gang of murderers,” Hamas said…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday met with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Istanbul, Anadolu reports.

Erdogan welcomed al-Sharaa with an official ceremony at the Dolmabahce Presidential Office.

The meeting was attended by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, National Defense Minister Yasar Guler, Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin, head of Turkiye’s Defense Industries Secretariat Haluk Gorgun, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad…

Israeli forces detained multiple Palestinians during military raids Saturday, while settlers escalated attacks on Palestinian properties in separate incidents across the occupied West Bank, Anadolu reports.

In eastern Nablus city, troops stormed the Balata al-Balad area, arresting two brothers after raiding their home, eyewitnesses told Anadolu.

Another youth was detained during a separate operation in the city’s Rafidiya neighborhood.

Simultaneously, illegal…