Category: 4. World

About 2,500 police and soldiers in Brazil launched a massive raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, arresting 81 suspects and sparking shootouts that left at least 60 suspects and four police officers dead, officials said.

National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University) is pleased to announce this Call for Papers for applications to present scholarly reports at the XXVI April International Academic Conference named after Evgeny Yasin (XXVI April Conference)….

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A cruise passenger in her 80s, who had just embarked on a 60-day luxury tour around Australia, was found dead after being left behind on a tropical island.
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Hurricane Melissa made landfall in eastern Cuba early Wednesday with 193 kph winds after battering Jamaica as one of the Atlantic’s strongest recorded hurricanes, threatening to worsen the island nation’s severe economic crisis as officials evacuated over 700,000 people.

The devastating…

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The death toll in Gaza from overnight Israeli strikes has climbed to 81, hospital officials said Wednesday.

Previously, at least 60 people, including many children, were…

Hurricane Melissa made landfall over eastern Cuba near the city of Chivirico early Wednesday as an “extremely dangerous” Category 3 storm, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said, after pummeling Jamaica as one of the strongest…