Morning news brief: 16 killed in Israeli airstrikes in Rafah; Jewish sites in NYC receive bomb threats; & more

Sixteen people were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip's Rafah city, the news agency AFP reported early Monday (May 6), citing medics and first responders. In other news, multiple emails containing disturbing bomb threats were sent to more than two dozen Jewish institutions and synagogues in New York City on Saturday (May 4), as per the New York City Police Department.

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Sixteen people were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip's Rafah city, early Monday (May 6). "The toll of martyrs in Rafah reached 16," emergency first responders told AFP, adding that seven people from one family and nine from another family were killed.

Multiple emails containing disturbing bomb threats were sent to more than two dozen Jewish institutions and synagogues in New York City. However, theNYPDfound the threats to be 'fake'.

Mexican authorities confirmed on Sunday (May 5) that the families of one American and two Australian surfers who went missing in Baja California on April 26 have identified their bodies, the news agency Reuters reported.

The death toll after heavy rains which led to floods in southern Brazil rose to at least 78, said local authorities on Sunday (May 5), as they scrambled to rescue people from what is being called the region’s largest-ever climate catastrophe.

Latin America's transit powerhouse Panama elected Jose Raul Mulino as its new president. Deemed an investor favourite candidate, Mulino rose to the favour of voters by pledging to revive the economy, crack down on drug cartels and shut downillegal migration routes to the United States.

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