Brazil investigating suspected yellow fever cases:

SAO PAULO — Brazilian authorities say they’ve now confirmed 47 cases of yellow fever and 25 deaths. The Health Ministry also says it’s investigating more than 160 other suspected cases of the mosquito-borne disease. The outbreak is centered in the east-central state of Minas Gerais, whose governor declared a 180-state of emergency this month after an initial report of eight deaths. The government says it’s sent 2 million extra doses of vaccine against the disease to Minas Gerais.

Italian experts go to Egypt to probe student’s death:

CAIRO — Egypt said on Sunday it has agreed to Italy’s request to send experts to retrieve footage from security cameras at a Cairo metro station that a murdered Italian student used the day he disappeared nearly a year ago. A statement by Egypt’s chief prosecutor said the Italian experts would be accompanied by others from a “specialized” German company. Together, they will analyze the material in the hope of finding who is behind the disappearance of Giulio Regeni. Regeni’s brutally tortured body was found by the side of a suburban Cairo road nearly 10 days after he disappeared.

Hungary bus crash victim IDs could take days:

BUDAPEST, Hungary — It could take days to officially identify the 16 people killed when a bus carrying Hungarian students returning from a ski trip burst into a fireball after crashing in Italy, Hungary’s foreign minister said Sunday. There were 54 passengers and two Hungarian drivers on the bus that crashed on an Italian highway near Verona just before midnight Friday, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said. Two adults hospitalized in critical condition also have yet to be identified. Szijjarto said the causes of the accident have yet to be determined. Italian officials said the bus burst into flames after hitting a highway barrier and then ramming into an overpass support column.

Suspected U.S. drone strike kills 3 alleged al-Qaida:

SANAA, Yemen — Suspected U.S. drone strikes have killed three alleged al-Qaida operatives in Yemen’s southwestern Bayda province, security and tribal officials said, the first such killings reported in the country since Donald Trump assumed the U.S. presidency Friday. The two Saturday strikes killed Abu Anis al-Abi, an area field commander, and two others, they said, speaking on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release the information to journalists.

H.W. Bush improving, wife staying in hospital:

HOUSTON — Former President George H.W. Bush’s health continues to improve and his wife, who is also recovering from illness, has chosen to remain hospitalized one more night to be “closer to her husband,” a family spokesman said Sunday. The 92-year-old former president and his wife Barbara remained at Houston Methodist Hospital. He has been receiving treatment for breathing difficulties from pneumonia while she is recovering from bronchitis. The 41st president’s vital signs are normal and doctors hope he can be moved out of intensive care in the next day or two, said Bush family spokesman Jim McGrath.

Some question tougher penalties for attacking cops:

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Gov. Eric Greitens is pushing to toughen Missouri’s already stiff penalties for attacking a police officer, reflecting similar efforts underway in other states and pleasing many in Missouri’s law enforcement community, which has been on the defensive since the police killing of an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson more than two years ago. Whether such changes are needed is debatable — among those who think they aren’t is a fellow Republican lawmaker and legal expert who helped craft revisions of the state’s criminal code that just took effect. “We can feel like we’re doing a great thing and we’re really solving the problem,” said state Sen. Bob Dixon, a leader on criminal law and chair of the chamber’s committee on criminal laws. “This does not solve that problem.”

Samsung cites two separate battery issues:

Samsung late Sunday revealed that two separate battery issues caused one of its best-selling smartphones to catch fire this past fall. The South Korean tech giant disclosed in a report that the batteries did not properly fit in the phones and that design caused the initial round of fires, which were sometimes explosive and in certain cases led to property damage and personal injury for its owners.