NEWS OF THE DAY
From Around the World
_1 Missing sailors: The U.S. Navy on Thursday released names of one sailor who died and eight who were missing after the destroyer John McCain collided Monday with an oil tanker near Singapore. Divers recovered the remains of Electronics Technician 3rd Class Kenneth Aaron Smith, 22, from New Jersey. The military says five sailors were injured and 10 were missing following Monday’s collision. The missing sailors include Dustin Doyon, 26, of Connecticut; Charles Nathan Findley, 31, of Missouri; Timothy Eckels Jr., 23, of Maryland; Kevin Bushell, 26, of Maryland; Corey George Ingram, 28, of New York; John Henry Hoagland III, 20, of Texas; Logan Stephen Palmer, 23, of Illinois; and Jacob Daniel Drake, 21, of Ohio.
_2 Boat disaster: A Brazilian commuter boat carrying more than 100 passengers flipped and sank Thursday in northeast Brazil, killing at least 18 people and leaving dozens missing in rough ocean waters. It was the second fatal accident involving passenger boats this week in the South American nation, where aquatic travel of all kinds is common. Navy Lt. Col. Flavio Almeida said the vessel went down in the morning while traversing the Bay of All Saints off the coast of the city of Salvador. Twentyone people were rescued by naval teams, and private boats.
_3 Swiss mudslide: Rescue workers used a helicopter and dogs to search for at least eight people still unaccounted for in a Swiss Alpine valley on Thursday, a day after a mudslide and rockslide hit a small village near the Italian border. The village of Bondo, about 80 miles north of Milan, has been evacuated. The slide Wednesday morning sent about 140 million cubic feet of material crashing down, causing an impact equivalent to 3.0 on the Richter scale, police said.
_4 Attack suspects: Spain’s National Court says that one of the four suspects in deadly attacks last week in and around Barcelona has been conditionally freed because of a lack of evidence against him. Judge Fernando Andreu ruled that Salh El Karib’s passport should be confiscated and that he will be required to show up in court once a week while he remains under investigation. El Karib, who worked in a cybercafe in Ripoll, the Catalan town where the extremist cell was allegedly formed, had been in police custody since investigators found that he purportedly purchased plane tickets for some of its members. On Tuesday, the judge freed with similar restrictions another suspect and sent to jail two others. Eight more people connected to the attacks are dead, six of them shot by the police.
_5 Philippines battle: President Rodrigo Duterte traveled Thursday to the main battle zone in southern Marawi after Philippine troops finally recaptured a main mosque where Islamic State-linked militants had taken cover with their hostages in the three-month siege of the city, the military said. More than 760 people, including 595 militants, have died in the Marawi fighting.
_6 Drones for medicine: Drones soon will be used in Tanzania to deliver medicines to health facilities across the East African country, continuing a trend of African governments embracing drone networks to deliver critical services. With its harsh landscapes of desert and rain forest and extremes of rainy seasons and drought, Africa is burdened with what the World Bank has called “the worst infrastructure endowment of any developing region today.”