French police on Friday arrested a man suspected of stabbing three women in the Paris metro as the capital's end-of-year festivities were in full swing, prosecutors told AFP.

Russia has boosted the production of arms and ammunition by 22 times during the course of the Ukraine conflict, President Vladimir Putin said Friday.

Israel on Friday formally recognised Somaliland as an "independent and sovereign state" and signed an agreement to establish diplomatic ties, as the region's leader hailed its first-ever official recognition.

A Malaysian judge sentenced former prime minister Najib Razak to 15 more years in jail on Friday after convicting him of abuse of power and money laundering in a sovereign wealth fund graft scandal.

China on Friday opened to traffic a 22.13-km-long tunnel, which it claimed to be the "world's longest", in Xinjiang province.

A Palestinian from the Israeli-occupied West Bank killed a man and a woman in a stabbing and car-ramming attack in northern Israel before he was shot and wounded...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that he would meet US President Donald Trump this weekend to discuss efforts to end Russia's invasion.

Beijing imposed sanctions on Friday against 20 US defence-related companies and 10 executives, a week after Washington announced large-scale arms sales to Taiwan.

After two Indian students in Toronto were killed in a span of one week, Canadian journalist Daniel Bordman has highlighted concerns over a culture of "anti-India sentiment" rising in the country.

Hindus in Bangladesh's troubled capital Dhaka in an exclusive conversation with NDTV's Ankit Tyagi, who is at ground zero, narrated the horrors they faced and concerns they have as attacks on them by radical Islamists.

A lawyer aligned with the pro-Pakistan Jamaat-E-Islami Bangladesh has issued a death threat to Tarique Rahman, just hours after the Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader landed in the country after 17 years in exile.

Bangladesh Crisis LIVE: Another Hindu man has been beaten to death in Bangladesh, days after Dipu Chandra Das was lynched and his body was set ablaze, local media reported on Thursday. 

An Israeli reservist soldier with a rifle slung on his back rammed an ATV into a Palestinian man who was praying on the side of a road in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Israeli military has said.

An explosion hit worshippers at a mosque in a predominantly Alawite area of Syria's Homs on Friday, state media said, killing at least eight in the latest attack on the minority community.

India said Friday it had spoken to the US over thousands of cancelled H1B visa interviews, which were scheduled from December 15 onwards and then postponed abruptly by months, as late as May 2026 in some cases.

India has reacted sharply to the latest killing of a Hindu man in Bangladesh, describing a string of recent incidents targeting members of the minority community as "worrisome" and warning that such violence cannot be ignored.

Fourteen people were hospitalised after a stabbing attack in a factory in central Japan, when an unspecified liquid was also sprayed, local media reported.

A suicide attempt at Masjid al-Haram in Makkah was prevented after a member of the mosque's security forces stepped in, sustaining injuries while trying to stop the man from jumping from an upper level.

Fresh anti-India protests have erupted in Dhaka as Bangladesh remains tense ahead of February general elections. Anti-India slogans were raised at a massive procession after the Friday prayers at Dhaka University, reports NDTV's Ankit Tyagi.

The people of Saudi Arabia woke up to a winter wonderland as snow covered parts of the kingdom for the first time in nearly three decades.