A bombing struck the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque in Homs, Syria, on Friday killing six people and injuring 21.

The attack began Friday afternoon in the northern city of Beit Shean, where the Palestinian man crashed his vehicle into people, killing one man and injuring a teenage boy.

Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved a record defense budget plan exceeding 9 trillion yen ($58 billion) for the coming year, aiming to fortify its strike-back capability and coastal defense with cruise missiles and unmanned arsenals as tensions rise in the region.

Israel on Friday became the first U.N. member state to formally recognize the Republic of Somaliland's independence three decades after its creation.

Myanmar will hold the first phase of a general election on Sunday, its first vote in five years and an exercise that critics say will neither restore the country's fragile democracy undone by a 2021 army takeover,

Thailand and Cambodia were engaged in combat along their border on Friday, even as the two countries held talks to try to put an end to armed clashes that erupted in early December, breaking a ceasefire that had been reached five months earlier.

Venezuela's government announced the release of 99 people detained after the country's 2024 presidential election amid a prolonged political crisis.

Fourteen people were injured in a stabbing attack in a factory in central Japan in which an unspecified liquid was also sprayed, authorities said.