1. Joe Biden pulls even with his Republican challenger Donald Trump in polls.

2. The death toll from a stampede at a Hindu religious congregation in northern India has risen to 121.

3. The plan for post-war Gaza that Israel pitched to US allies is to run the strip in cooperation with powerful local families.

4. India has asked power companies to order equipment worth $33 billion this year to fast track capacity additions of coal-fired power in the years ahead.

5. EU governments hesitant on Chinese EV tariffs as trade spat escalates.

6. China is far ahead of other countries in generative AI inventions like chatbots, filing six times more patents than its closest rival the US.