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The incident occurred in a remote town called Palumpa in Australia.

Authorities say massive overcrowding, insufficient exits, and other factors contributed to a deadly stampede at a religious festival in Northern India that killed at least 121 people

A Malaysian court has dismissed a bid by imprisoned former Prime Minister Najib Razak to serve his remaining corruption sentence under house arrest

A 6-month-old lion cub named Freya who was rescued from the wildlife trade in Lebanon has been relocated to a sanctuary in South Africa

Saeed Jalili is on the precipice of being elected as Iran’s next president as he faces a runoff election Friday against the little-known reform candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon

Elections in the United Kingdom have a distinct vocabulary that draws on traditions of parliamentary democracy as well as the lexicon of U.S. politics and modern political spin

Frozan Ahmadzai is one of 200,000 Afghan women who have the Taliban’s permission to work

Voters in the United Kingdom are set to cast ballots in a national election on July 4, passing judgment on British Rishi Sunak’s 20 months in office, and the four Conservative prime ministers before him

New South Wales Police Minister Yasmin Catley says a 14-year-old boy accused of stabbing a man at a Sydney university has faced previous charges, which were dismissed by a court

Migrants, police, officials and analysts say President Joe Biden’s halt on asylum has caused a wait-and-see attitude among migrants who are staying in Brazil

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Thursday for the second time in as many months as they travel to Kazakhstan for a session of an international group founded to counter Western alliances

Hurricane Beryl is expected to produce rainfall totals of 4 to 8 inches.

A towering statue of Genghis Khan dominates the landscape of rolling plains and endless skies outside Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar. The leader of the Mongols founded an empire in the early 13th century that expanded under his descendants into parts of Europe and the Middle East while subduing neighboring China and ruling it for nearly a century. Modern-day Mongolia, still large though sparsely populated, is landlocked and surrounded by two giants: Russia to the north and China to the south. The country transitioned to democracy in the early 1990s — holding its most recent election last week — after more than six decades as a single-party communist state with close ties to the Soviet Union. The Mongols who tore across the grasslands to expand the empire were skilled warriors on horseback. Millions of the animals continue to have an important place in Mongolian culture and outnumber the country's people. Almost half of Mongolia's population now lives in the capital, finding...

Taiwan says China warned Taiwan’s coast guard against interfering in the detention of a Taiwanese fishing boat in what is seen as an increasing Chinese attempt to encroach on Taiwanese territory

Taiwan says China warned Taiwan's coast guard not to interfere in detention of Taiwanese fishing boat off Chinese coast

Investment in electric vehicle manufacturing is booming in Morocco, a country that neighbors Europe and enjoys a free trade agreement with the United States

Two Russian naval ships have docked in the Venezuelan port of La Guaira during exercises in the Atlantic Ocean that Moscow says are to “show the flag” in remote, important regions

Hamas has been weakened but could recover, concerned officials admit.

Iranian presidential candidates have discussed the impact of economic sanctions imposed on their country by the United States and other Western nations, and presented their views about reviving a nuclear deal with world powers

Serious concerns have been raised as Beryl continues its course. Dwayne Francis of Spanish Town, Jamaica, shares his experience from the aftermath of the storm.

The Category 4 storm is off to a ferocious start, hitting several islands in its path, killing at least six people. ABC News meteorologist Kenton Gewecke tracks the storm.

Hannah, a 13-year-old white rhinoceros, gives hope to conservationists worldwide

Nine historians have been awarded the prestigious Dan David Prize

More than 100 people have been killed in a stampede in northern India following a Hindu religious gathering

A French bishop has put off any decision on whether to remove mosaics by an ex-Jesuit artist accused of abusing women, saying that they will stay for now on the Lourdes shrine but that eventually they should be removed

Palestinian families are streaming out of a southern Gaza city after the Israeli military ordered an evacuation of much of Khan Younis

Authorities in Mauritania say clashes between security forces and protesters rallying against the reelection of President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani have left three people dead

She highlights how tourism has shaped the world for better and for worse.

As Iran-backed Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel spark fires, locals worry about safety and environmental destruction.

The stampede occurred after a religious gathering with Hindu figure Bhole Baba as participants rushed to leave.

More than 250,000 civilians have been ordered to evacuate the southern city of Khan Younis as operations continue

Venezuela’s main opposition coalition has welcomed President Nicolas Maduro’s announcement about his intentions to jumpstart negotiations with the United States this week

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.

Police have arrested an Italian farm owner after one of his workers, an undocumented laborer from India, bled to death after his arm was cut off by farm equipment

Brazil’s national data protection authority determined on Tuesday that Meta cannot use data originating in the country to train its artificial intelligence

A judge at Lebanon’s military court has charged the gunman who opened fire at the U.S. embassy near Beirut with being affiliated to the militant Islamic State group

Taiwan says that China’s coast guard has boarded a Taiwanese fishing boat and steered it to a port in mainland China

Taiwan says China's coast guard has boarded and detained a Taiwanese fishing boat, and calls for its release

United Nations human rights experts say Russia violated international law by imprisoning Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and should release him “immediately.”

U.N. human rights experts say Russia violated international law by jailing Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich

Two plundered marble vases that marked ancient Athenians’ graves more than 2,000 years ago, including one with an emotional family scene, have been returned to Greece from Switzerland

Mexico's president says a fight between gangs over drug and migrant trafficking routes was behind the massacre of 19 men in the southern state of Chiapas

Greek officials say 240 firefighters from Bulgaria, Malta, Moldova and Romania, will be deployed in Greece from early July until mid-September as reinforcements during the height of the summer wildfire season

The deputy leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah says the only definite path to a cease-fire on the Lebanon-Israel border is a full cease-fire in Gaza

Hezbollah's deputy leader says fighting with Israel would stop "without any discussion" after a full Gaza cease-fire

At least 105 people have died in a stampede following a religious gathering in northern India, officials say

ABC News’ Matt Gutman discusses the status of getting aid to Gaza, a potential cease-fire deal and hostage release.

French prosecutors have asked the country's highest court to rule on the validity of the international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar Assad over complicity in war crimes during Syria’s civil war

The flight was traveling from Spain to Uruguay when it was diverted to Brazil.

A British neonatal nurse who is serving a life sentence for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others has been convicted of trying to kill another infant in her care