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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities say a stampede in Kenya during celebrations to mark an annual public holiday killed at least four people on Friday and injured 100 others. Police said the stampede happened when thousands of people struggled to get inside Kericho stadium in western Kenya at dawn on Friday. The stadium was the

By The Associated Press Protesters gathered at Iraq’s border crossing with Jordan on Friday to show solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and call for an end to Israel’s blockade, while in Indonesia’s capital, demonstrators marched from several mosques to the heavily guarded U.S. Embassy in Jakarta to denounce American support for Israel and

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Gale-force winds and floods have struck several countries in Northern Europe as the region braces for more heavy rain. One person was reported dead in Scotland after being swept into a river and authorities searched for a man thought to be trapped in his vehicle.

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has welcomed European Union leaders to the White House. The meeting comes as he tries to assure the leaders that the United States can deliver on promises to send tens of billions of dollars’ worth of aid to wartime Ukraine and Israel. It also

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Cuts to U.N. funding for refugees living in Rwanda is threatening the right to education for children in more than 100,000 households who have fled conflict from different East African countries to live in five camps. A Burundian refugee told The Associated Press on Thursday how

By ANDI JATMIKO Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Protesters marched from several mosques to the heavily guarded U.S. Embassy in Indonesia’s capital Friday to denounce the staunch American support for Israel and demand an end to Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. Similar protests also took place in front of the United Nations mission,

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government has decided against canceling a Chinese company’s 99-year lease on strategically important Darwin Port despite U.S. concerns that foreign control could be used to spy on its military. The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet said on Friday after an investigation of the

By ALFIAN KARTONO Associated Press JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua province have killed a construction worker and seriously injured three others in an attack at a construction site. Nineteen other workers were unharmed “but experienced trauma” from the attack, which occurred on Thursday, according to a statement from a police spokesperson.

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he spoke by phone with U.S. President Joe Biden about Washington’s future support for Kyiv. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a military base near the Ukrainian border, as the warring countries laid plans for the winter and next year’s combat

By JESSE BEDAYN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press/Report for America COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado funeral home where 189 decaying bodies were discovered this month appears to have fabricated cremation records and may have given families fake ashes, according to information gathered by The Associated Press from customers and crematories. The families that

By ISABEL DEBRE and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — When Omar Khodari and his family heeded the Israeli military’s warning last week advising them to head from the northern Gaza Strip to the south, they thought they were fleeing to a safer place. They figured they would wait out the

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — World shares retreated as the prospect of a 5% yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury for the first time since 2007 added to pressure on Wall Street, though the yield held steady below that level early Friday. Germany’s DAX fell 1% to 14,868.33 and the CAC

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Actor and comedian Marlon Wayans says he is being unfairly prosecuted for disturbing the peace over a dispute with an airline employee who he alleges targeted him because of his race. Attorneys for Wayans, who is Black, made the allegations in a court filing Thursday that asked

By GARANCE BURKE and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As hospitals and health care systems turn to artificial intelligence to help summarize doctors’ notes and analyze health records, a new study led by Stanford School of Medicine researchers cautions that popular chatbots are perpetuating racist, debunked medical ideas, prompting concerns that the