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ShareThree people have died after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship sailing in the Atlantic Ocean, the World Health Organization (WHO) has told the BBC. One case of Hantavirus has been confirmed, with five more suspected cases under investigation, it said. One British national is reportedly in intensiveContinue Reading

ShareRelatives of jailed Iranian human rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi and the Nobel Peace Prize Committee have called for her to be transferred to adequate medical facilities following a sharp reported deterioration of her health. On Friday her family said the 54-year-old had been taken from her prison in north-west IranContinue Reading

ShareA man has been sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of four toddlers at a nursery school in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, earlier this month. On 2 April, Christopher Okello Onyum, 38, entered the Ggaba Early Childhood Development Program and fatally stabbed the infants – Eteku Gideon, Keisha Agenorwoth,Continue Reading

ShareThe terrorism threat level in the UK has been increased by the government from “substantial” to “severe” – meaning that a terrorist attack is considered highly likely in the next six months. It comes after two Jewish men were stabbed in north London on Wednesday in an attack the MetropolitanContinue Reading

ShareThe detained former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to house arrest, the country’s state media has reported. The 80-year-old Nobel laureate has been held in detention – probably in a military prison in the capital Nay Pyi Taw – since she was removed from office inContinue Reading

ShareMyanmar’s junta must restore the recently revoked publication licenses of three local news agencies — the Khonumthung Media Group, Chin World, and Myatmaukkhit News Agency — and cease its persecution of independent media groups, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. The military bans, effective on April 9 and formallyContinue Reading

ShareA landmark royal commission into antisemitism, called in the aftermath of the Bondi shooting, has recommended that gun reforms be prioritised and policing arrangements for Jewish holidays extended to other Jewish festivals. The commission – Australia’s most powerful form of public inquiry – was announced in January, three weeks afterContinue Reading

ShareThe youngest son of Zimbabwe’s late former leader Robert Mugabe is to deported from South Africa immediately, a court in Johannesburg has ordered. Bellarmine Mugabe has also been in trouble with the law in Zimbabwe. The youngest son of Zimbabwe’s late former leader Robert Mugabe is to deported from SouthContinue Reading