Iranian Gen. Masoud Jazayeri has said Iran will not allow Israel to harm the security of the region, and that a response will be made to the Israeli aggression in Syria, Ynet news reported May 5, citing Jazayeri's statement on Iranian television station Alalam.

Clashes in Dhaka between Bangladeshi police and Islamist protesters under the banner of Hefazat-e-Islam left at least one person dead and dozens injured May 5, Xinhua reported.

Sadiq Zaman Khattak, a parliamentary candidate for Pakistan's secular Awami National Party in upcoming elections, was shot and killed along with his three-year-old son in Karachi on May 3, a police spokesman said, AFP reported.

Two senior Chadian generals and a member of parliament allied with President Idriss Deby were arrested May 2 for alleged involvement in a foiled coup plot on May 1, a government prosecutor said, Reuters reported.

Police in Athens on May 2 stopped a group from the far-right Golden Dawn party from giving out free food to residents on Syntagma Square, where the Greek Parliament is located, the BBC reported.

Kenneth Bae, an American detained for nearly six months in North Korea, has been sentenced to 15 years of "compulsory labor" for unspecified crimes against the state, Pyongyang announced May 1, AP reported.

Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators gathered in central Istanbul on May Day, Reuters reported May 1.

An Iranian workers' union urged Tehran to increase salaries and battle inflation May 1, AFP reported, citing a report from the Iranian Labor News Agency.