Two more passengers evacuated from the cruise ship test positive for Hantavirus including a French woman and an American.
Passengers from the ship began flying home aboard military and government planes on Sunday. Personnel in full-body protective gear and breathing masks escorted the travelers from ship to shore in tenerife.
Three cruise ship passengers have died and there are at least six confirmed Hantavirus cases according to the World Health Organization.
The United States and Iran were in a deepening standoff Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump rejected Tehran’s latest offer to end the war. Officials said the proposal included some concessions on its disputed nuclear program.
The stalled diplomacy and recent exchanges of fire could tip the middle east back into open warfare and prolong the worldwide energy crisis sparked by the conflict . . . with Iran’s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz and America’s blockade of Iranian ports still in place.
A U.S. brokered ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine was due to expire Monday with both sides accusing each other of breaching the seventy two hour arrangement . . . as American and European officials considered how they might steer the warring countries into further talks.
Ukrainian authorities said Monday that Russian drones . . . bombs and artillery shelling struck civilian areas of the northeastern Kharkiv and southern Kherson regions, killing at least two people and wounding seven others . . . including a fourteen year old boy.
Reagan Boschulte can be reached at bosc3829@stthomas.edu.
