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First Thing: US-Iran ceasefire at risk after exchange of fire in strait of Hormuz

news …**  Health staff help patients on to a boat from the cruise ship MV Hondius on 6 May. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images - **Authorities around the world

Worldwide race to trace passengers from hantavirus-hit cruise ship

latest outbreak the transmission between people was documented for the first time, the WHO said. The WHO is in touch with officials in at least 12 countries who are monitoring citizens that returned home. Those

Where did the hantavirus outbreak start, and where has it spread?

latest to test positive for the virus while a French traveller has [developed symptoms](/news/2026/5/11/two-more-cruise-ship-passengers-test-positive-for-hantavirus) as the ship is being evacuated and passengers are returning to their home countries. Passengers began flying home on military

Monday briefing: Will the international effort to stop the further spread of hantavirus be successful?

latest on backbench MP Catherine West’s (likely futile) attempt to topple Keir Starmer, alongside the rest of the fallout. Today, though, we kick off with something else … the race to contain a rare, deadly

Wednesday briefing: How Trump’s attempt to reopen to strait of Hormuz brought war closer again

news***| A British crew member who became ill after a suspected outbreak of hantavirus on luxury cruise ship the MV Hondius [is to be medically evacuated](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/05/british-crew-member-dutch-mv-hondius-cruise-ship-hantavirus-cases), officials have said

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latest](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/may/07/middle-east-crisis-iran-trump-us-negotiations-deal-war-peace-proposal-hormuz-latest-news-updates). ## **Alleged suicide note written by Jeffrey Epstein unsealed by federal judge** ![The handwritten note reads: 'They investigated me for month – FOUND NOTHING!!!', and then mentions years-old charges

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latest with the US-Iran ceasefire?** The war has entered its third month, with Tehran tightening its grip over the strait of Hormuz and Washington [struggling](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/11/donald-trump-ceasefire-with-iran-on-life-support-reject-peace-proposals) to turn a fragile ceasefire into

Crew members on hantavirus cruise ship to be evacuated | First Thing

MV Hondius](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/05/mv-hondius-ice-breaking-expedition-cruise-suspected-hantavirus-outbreak) are being [prepared for medical evacuation](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/05/british-crew-member-dutch-mv-hondius-cruise-ship-hantavirus-cases) to the Netherlands, as the cruise ship continues to be marooned off the coast of Cape Verde following a suspected hantavirus

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MV Hondius is expected to arrive in Tenerife around midday on Sunday, local time. No passengers are allowed to stay in the country or take commercial flights, but travellers are expected to be repatriated