AFP: Police on Sunday extended the detention of a Kuwaiti arrested last week for allegedly burning an Iranian flag in protest at a Shiite tweeter’s apparent insult to the Prophet Mohammed, a legal source said.

AP: U.S. officials say Turkey’s prime minister is updating U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton about his recent nuclear talks with Iran.

AFP: Iran on Sunday backtracked on reports that five Iranian “engineers” abducted in Syria had been freed — the second time in months it retracted news of their liberation.

AP: South Korean officials said Saturday that they will continue working with the U.S. to reduce oil imports from Iran after President Barack Obama greenlighted potential sanctions against countries that continue to buy Iranian oil.

AP: The Obama administration is seeking to advance talks among Saudi Arabia and its neighbors on a missile defense system against Iran, while slowing any plans among Arab Gulf states to intervene militarily in Syria.

BBC: Former Argentine President Carlos Menem is to stand trial for allegedly obstructing an investigation into an attack on a Jewish cultural centre in Buenos Aires, officials have said.

AP: A federal judge has awarded $2.16 billion to victims of the 1983 suicide truck-bombing of U.S. Marines in Beirut, his third award in two weeks to plaintiffs who had sued Iran over the attack.

Reuters: Uruguay will ask Iran if the South American country can export rice in exchange for oil, the government said on Friday.