Agent says 'the news is not good' as author, subject to Iranian death fatwa, remains in hospital; police arrest Hadi Matar, who reportedly has sympathies for Shia extremists

Knife attack comes 33 years after Iran's supreme leader called on followers to rapidly execute author who was accused of insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad

Condition of author, who was speaking at event in New York State, not immediately clear; his novel 'Satanic Verses' prompted calls for his death and a bounty of over $3 million

Tehran says religious ruling against weapons of mass destruction remains in place after top official said Iran was capable of making atomic bombs

Unclear if ruling issued by Ali Khamenei will be enforced; foreign films showing unscarved women can be screened in Iran, but locally made productions are banned from doing so

After Sudan's leading scholars ruled against normalization, their peer Abdel-Rahman Hassan Hamed assessed that Islamic principles are more flexible, and wrote a fatwa backing ties