Around 1,500 ships and their crews are trapped in the Gulf due to the Iranian blockade in the strait of Hormuz, the secretary general of the UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) said in Panama on Thursday. The war in the Middle East...
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The World Health Organization insisted Thursday that a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic did not mark the beginning of a Covid-like crisis. “This is not the start of an epidemic. This is not the start of a...
UK police said Thursday they had arrested a man wielding a weapon who “was behaving in an intimidating manner” close to the home of former prince Andrew in eastern England. Norfolk police confirmed they had been called to an incident...
A patient evacuated from the hantavirus-hit MV Hondius cruise ship has tested positive for the disease, the treating Dutch hospital said on Thursday. “The RIVM (Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment) has confirmed that...
The World Health Organization said Thursday there were now five confirmed hantavirus cases from the Atlantic cruise ship outbreak, with three more suspected — and warned further cases were possible. Despite the three fatalities, the WHO...
A Danish citizen who travelled on the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship Hondius and disembarked on April 24 has gone into self-quarantine the Danish Patient Safety Authority said Thursday. The health authority said the person showed “no symptoms...
Two Singapore residents who had been on board a hantavirus-hit cruise ship have been isolated as they await test results for the rare respiratory disease, Singapore’s Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) said on Thursday. Two men aged 65 and 67...
A total of 30 passengers left the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius on April 24 during its call at the remote British island of Saint Helena, the cruise ship’s Dutch operator said Thursday. “Thirty guests disembarked MV Hondius on Saint...
A Chinese military court handed suspended death sentences to two former defence ministers for corruption on Thursday, state media said, in President Xi Jinping’s latest push to root out graft. They are the harshest sentences that Beijing has...
All passengers showing symptoms of the hantavirus have now been removed from the MV Hondius, its operator said in a statement on Thursday. “No symptomatic individuals are present on board,” said Oceanwide Expeditions, following the...
Several drones entered Latvian airspace from Russia overnight, with two of them crashing and one causing a brief fire at an oil depot, the army said on Thursday. “Several unmanned aerial vehicles entered Latvian airspace” the army of the...
Japan fired surface-to-ship missiles and sank an old warship in waters between the Philippines and Taiwan as part of major military exercises that include US forces, angering China. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has accelerated Japan’s shift...
The Kremlin on Thursday said it will begin a two-day ceasefire with Ukraine starting at midnight that is meant to cover its patriotic May 9 parade, after ignoring a Ukrainian ceasefire earlier this week. “Yes, we are talking about the 8th and...
The Israeli military said Thursday it would investigate after a soldier was photographed placing a cigarette in the mouth of a statue of the Virgin Mary in southern Lebanon. An image appearing to show an Israeli soldier with his arm around the...
A flight attendant for the KLM airline is being tested for the hantavirus after showing mild symptoms and being admitted to hospital in Amsterdam, a Dutch health ministry spokesperson told AFP Thursday. The woman was undergoing tests in hospital...