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.

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.

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.

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 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. 

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.

Shivank Avasthi was found with a gunshot wound on Tuesday, in what the police said was Toronto's 41st homicide case this year.

Days after Prashant Sreekumar, a 44-year-old Indian-origin man, died of suspected cardiac arrest while waiting for treatment at Grey Nuns Community Hospital in Canada's Edmonton, a video of his wife has gone viral.

The women know that mutilating young girls by removing their clitoris and inner labia -- framed as a rite of passage -- is still an entrenched practice in some remote villages of Narok county, around three hours from the nearest tarmac road.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement summoned Afghans residing in the US to present their documents during the holiday season, marking the latest effort by the Trump administration to crack down on migrants from the Asian nation.

Nigeria, which is battling multiple armed groups, said the US strikes were part of an exchange of intelligence and strategic coordination between the two countries.

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro released a handwritten letter on Thursday confirming that he was backing one of his sons for the 2026 presidential race.

In a significant H-1B visa policy overhaul, the Trump administration in the United States is replacing the random lottery system that selected beneficiaries with a process that gives greater weight to those with higher skills and who are better paid.

Shivank Avasthi, a 20-year-old Indian student, was shot dead near the University of Toronto Scarborough campus in Canada.

Christmas Day saw the triumphant homecoming of Bangladesh's 'dark prince' - Tarique Rahman, the son of three-time former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and a central figure in her Bangladesh Nationalist Party - after 17 years in self-exile.