Mourners began gathering Tuesday for days of funerals and processions for Iran’s late president, foreign minister and others killed in a helicopter crash. For Iran’s Shiite theocracy, mass demonstrations have been crucial since millions thronged the streets of Tehran to welcome Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979 during the Islamic Revolution. Whether President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and others draw large crowds remains in question, particularly as Raisi died in a helicopter crash, won his office in the lowest-turnout election in the country’s history and presided over crackdowns on all dissent. Prosecutors have warned people over celebrating his death and a heavy security force presence has been seen on the streets of Tehran since the crash.

Germany’s foreign minister has arrived in Kyiv in the latest public display of support for Ukraine by its Western partners. Annalena Baerbock renewed Berlin’s calls for partners to send more air defense systems as Russia pounds Ukraine with missiles, glide bombs and rockets. Germany is the second-biggest supplier of military aid to Ukraine after the United States. But deliveries of promised weapons and ammunition from NATO countries like Germany have been slow and have left Ukraine vulnerable to a recent Russian push along parts of the front line. Ukraine’s depleted troops are trying to hold off a fierce Russian offensive along the eastern border in one of the most critical phases of the war, which is stretching into its third year.

Israeli forces have raided a militant stronghold in the occupied West Bank, killing at least seven Palestinians, including a doctor. That's according to local authorities. The raid on Tuesday sparked some of the deadliest recent violence in the territory, which has seen a surge of fighting since the war in Gaza erupted seven months ago. The military said its forces hit militants during an operation in Jenin, a city in the northern West Bank. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group said its fighters battled the Israeli forces. However, the director of a local hospital said its surgery specialist was among the dead.

Nine Egyptian men will go on trial in southern Greece, accused of causing a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants and sent shockwaves through the European Union’s border protection and asylum operations. The defendants, most in their 20s, face up to life in prison if convicted on multiple criminal charges over the sinking of the “Adriana” fishing trawler on June 14 last year. International human rights groups argue the defendants' right to a fair trial is being compromised as they face judgment before an investigation is concluded into claims the Greek coast guard may have botched the rescue attempt.

World leaders are expected to adopt a new agreement on artificial intelligence when they gather virtually Tuesday to discuss AI’s potential risks but also ways to promote its benefits and innovation. The two-day AI Seoul Summit co-hosted by the South Korean and U.K. governments. is a follow-up to November’s inaugural AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in the United Kingdom. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are to meet other world leaders virtually Tuesday. An in-person meeting of digital ministers is slated for Wednesday. A senior Korean presidential advisor said the AI agreement will include the outcomes of discussions on safety, innovation and inclusivity.

In a landmark trial, a Paris court will this week seek to determine whether top Syrian intelligence officials were responsible for the disappearance and deaths of a French-Syrian father and his son. The hearings from Tuesday are expected to air chilling allegations that President Bashar Assad’s regime has widely used torture and arbitrary detentions to keep power in Syria’s civil war, now in its 14th year. The French trial comes as Assad has been regaining an aura of international respectability, starting to shed his long-time status as a pariah that flowed from the violence unleashed on regime opponents. Human rights campaigners involved in the French case hope it will refocus attention on alleged atrocities.

The alleged leaders of a suspected far-right plot to topple the German government are among nine suspects going on trial in Frankfurt Tuesday, opening the most prominent proceedings in a case that shocked the country in late 2022. The defendants will face judges at a special temporary courthouse built to accommodate the large number of defendants, lawyers and media dealing with the case. About 260 witnesses are expected at a trial that the Frankfurt state court expects to extend well into 2025 — one of three trials that in total involve more than two dozen suspects. The defendants include a self-styled prince, a former far-right lawmaker and former soldiers.

The Associated Press rode one of the longest trains in India — 1,800 miles from New Delhi to Kanyakumari — to interview voters about an election that will be decided in June. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to win and reappoint Prime Minister Narendra Modi — the leader for the past decade — for another five years. A man who runs a food stall said Modi isn’t doing enough for the poor. A Muslim man said Modi's Hindu-centric policies are hurtful and divisive. But many passengers said they supported Modi, and credited him with improving India's economy and its global image.

A Russian court has started the trial of a theater director and a playwright facing charges of justifying terrorism over a play they staged, the latest step in the unrelenting crackdown on dissent in Russia that has reached unprecedented levels during Moscow's war in Ukraine. Zhenya Berkovich, a prominent independent theater director, and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk have been jailed for over a year. Authorities claim a play they staged justifies terrorism, which is a criminal offense in Russia. In the play, women arrested after attempting to go to Syria to marry members of Islamic militant groups tell a judge what made them vulnerable to being wooed by extremists online. The women told the court Monday their intent was to prevent terrorism.