By BISWAJEET BANERJEE and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — More than 120 people died Tuesday in a stampede after a large religious gathering in northern India, one of the deadliest such accidents in recent years. Authorities are investigating. The stampede among ...

By WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike slammed into a residential building next to the main medical center in Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis, wounding at least seven people, hospital authorities and witnesses said Wednesday. Nasser ...

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — As it stands on the threshold of power in France, the far-right National Rally is facing scrutiny about some of the candidates it hopes will help it secure a ruling majority in legislative elections on Sunday, including a woman it has pulled ...

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — China has requested far more patents than any other country when it comes to generative AI, the U.N. intellectual property agency said Wednesday, with the United States a distant second. The technology, which offers the potential to boost ...

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's new Cabinet was sworn in Wednesday with major changes in the defense, foreign ministry and economy portfolios as the country faces mounting public discontent and conflicts in neighboring nations. Years of economic mismanagement, the ...

By SYLVIE CORBET and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Days ahead of France's crucial parliamentary elections, renowned Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld is sticking to his advice that if voters are faced with a duel between Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally and a far-left ...

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief warned Wednesday about rising hatred and discrimination around the world in a "mega-year for elections," calling on voters to put rights of others in mind when they cast their ballots. Volker Türk made the call with major elections looming in ...

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In one of the store-front betting shops that are ubiquitous in London, a bookie howls with laughter when asked if anyone is placing bets on Thursday's election. It's not that you can't wager on politics. But the odds on the main event this ...

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer MILAN (AP) — The European Commission on Wednesday approved Lufthansa's takeover of Italian airline ITA with conditions to protect competition in a deal that Italy's finance minister called "historic." Lufthansa will invest 325 million euros ($350 ...

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African police have discovered the body of former high jump world champion Jacques Freitag after he went missing last month, local media reported on Wednesday. The reports said the 42-year-old, who won the 2003 world ...

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof gave his first speech to parliament on Wednesday, pledging that he will work hard at one of his new goverment's main aims: reducing immigration. "The biggest of those concerns is asylum and ...

By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and LEE KEATH Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike killed a prominent Palestinian doctor and eight members of his extended family on Tuesday after they complied with military orders to evacuate their home and moved into an ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A French citizen arrested in Russia has pleaded guilty to criminal charges involving illegally collecting information on military issues in the country, state news agency Tass said Wednesday. Laurent Vinatier was arrested in the Russian capital in June as tensions flared ...

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — At least seven people have been arrested in Germany and Sweden on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity and war crimes in Syria in 2012-2014, authorities in the two countries said Wednesday. In a coordinated effort ...

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain's upcoming general election is widely expected to lead to a change of government for the first time in 14 years. Many analysts believe it will be one of the country's most consequential elections since the end of World War II. Ahead of ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Dozens of members from Pakistan's civil society rallied on Tuesday in the southern port city of Karachi against the death sentence handed down to a Christian man on blasphemy charges, nearly a year after one of the worst mob attacks on Christians in the ...

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Millions of voters in Britain are going to the polls Thursday to choose a new House of Commons and a new government. Voters will elect 650 lawmakers representing as many constituencies, or local areas, and the leader of the party that returns ...

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands has a different prime minister for the first time in 14 years as Dutch King Willem-Alexander swore in the country's new government Tuesday, more than seven months after elections dominated by a far-right, ...

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations General Assembly adopted a Chinese-sponsored resolution with U.S. support urging wealthy developed nations to close the widening gap with poorer developing countries and ensure that they have equal opportunities ...

By MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH, SAMY MAGDY and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli army ordered a mass evacuation of Palestinians from much of Khan Younis on Monday, a sign that troops are likely to launch a new ground assault into the Gaza Strip's second-largest ...