By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Associated Press The updates sent by friends and neighbors on WhatsApp confirmed what fisher Prince Davis already feared: Hurricane Melissa put a hole in the stern of his 50-foot (15-meter) fishing boat, and damaged the cabin and back deck. His father's boat was ...
By ELÉONORE HUGHES and GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The death toll in a massive police raid targeting a drug trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro rose to at least 121 people, authorities said Thursday. An operation launched Tuesday in two of the city's favelas ...
By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen has said that his refusal to sign a $35 billion gas agreement with Egypt has prompted his U.S. counterpart to cancel a planned trip to Israel. A statement from Cohen's office on Thursday night said that ...
By MOSHE EDRI and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men covered the entrance to Jerusalem in a sea of black Thursday to protest plans to draft them into the military, singing, clapping and holding signs saying they would rather go to ...
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An 80-year-old cruise passenger has been found dead on a Great Barrier Reef island, a day after she was accidentally abandoned there by the ship's crew. The passenger's daughter Katherine Rees on Thursday accused the cruise ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press GYEONGJU, South Korea (AP) — Silicon Valley chipmaker Nvidia plans to supply hundreds of thousands of its graphics processing units for projects with South Korean businesses and the government to advance the country's artificial intelligence ...