MADRID -- One of the 14 Spanish evacuees from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius on Sunday has tested preliminarily positive for the virus, Spanish Health Minister Monica Garcia said Monday.
Garcia wrote on X that one of the Spanish passengers currently under isolation at Madrid's Gomez Ulla hospital had tested preliminarily positive in a PCR test conducted upon arrival.
"The person remains in isolation, without symptoms and in general good health, under continued clinical observation in accordance with established safety and epidemiological protocols," she wrote. (Spain-Hantavirus)
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that the weeks-long ceasefire with Iran remains in effect but is on "massive life support," signaling that Washington will continue pursuing diplomacy with Tehran despite rejecting Iran's latest proposal.
"I would say the ceasefire is on massive life support," Trump told reporters at the White House, describing the current truce as "unbelievably weak."
Trump again slammed Iran's latest response to the White House peace plan, which he rejected one day earlier, calling it "totally unacceptable," stressing that any peace deal between Washington and Tehran would require Iran to pledge to stop pursuing a nuclear program. (U.S.-Iran)
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TEHRAN -- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Monday that Tehran had sought only its "legitimate rights" in a new peace proposal delivered to the United States through Pakistan, which has been mediating between the two sides.
Speaking at a weekly news conference in Tehran, Baghaei said Iran's demands included ending the war in West Asia, lifting the U.S. naval blockade on Iranian shipping, releasing Iranian assets frozen abroad, ensuring safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz and restoring regional stability.
"We have not demanded any concession. The only things we demanded are the Iranian nation's legitimate rights," he said. (U.S.-Iran)
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PARIS -- At least two people were killed and six others injured in a shooting in the Moulins district of the southern French city of Nice on Monday, Nice Mayor Eric Ciotti said.
Two people have died, and among the injured, three are in critical condition, during the shooting at Place des Amaryllis in Nice, Ciotti said on social platform X.
According to French news channel BFM TV, a vehicle carrying two people drove through the neighborhood before one of them opened fire several times near Place des Amaryllis and fled the scene. (France-Nice-Shooting)
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KINSHASA -- At least 50 civilians have been killed over the past week in a series of attacks attributed to Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), local media and civil society sources said on Monday.
According to local media reports, the attacks occurred mainly in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, where ADF fighters carried out raids, kidnappings, looting and arson in several localities. (DRC-Attacks)
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The European Union (EU) members on Monday agreed on new sanctions on Israeli settlers over violence against Palestinians, after a months-long deadlock, according to a top EU diplomat.
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on social media platform X that foreign ministers of EU members had approved the move. The decision comes amid rising settler violence and settlement expansion in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. "It was high time we move from deadlock to delivery," Kallas said.
The EU has yet to publish details of the individuals and entities to be targeted by the new sanctions. (EU-Israeli settlers-Sanctions) Enditem
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