French health officials are contacting and testing more than 20 people who may have been exposed to a person infected with hantavirus. Some are also being isolated in hospital as a precaution.

Hospitals in Haiti’s Cite Soleil evacuated their patients and aid group MSF suspended its activities there ‌as fighting between armed groups operating in the area that began a fortnight ago deteriorated over the weekend.
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MSF, or Doctors Without Borders, said hundreds of residents sought refuge in its hospital in the neighborhood – an impoverished part of the capital Port-au-Prince – where one of its security guards was shot by a ​stray bullet while inside the compound.

The U.S. government on Monday announced sanctions against three people and ​nine companies, including four based in Hong Kong and four in the United Arab Emirates, for ‌aiding Iran’s shipment of oil to China. The ninth company is based in Oman.

Ukrainian authorities named President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s powerful former chief of staff as a suspect in a ​major corruption probe, a move likely to pile pressure on ‌the president’s office at a sensitive moment in the war with Russia.

A fire set off ‌by a potential gas explosion killed one person in Brazil’s biggest city Sao Paulo on Monday, while also damaging around ​10 homes and leaving three people injured, ​the local fire department said.

A 27-year-old man suspected of plotting a violent ​attack and of planning to ‌join Islamic State in Syria or Mozambique had sought to target ​a Parisian museum and the ​Jewish community, though no specific ⁠target was identified, a source ​close to the investigation said.

South African President ​Cyril Ramaphosa faced down calls to resign over a scandal in which thieves stole bundles of ‌cash in foreign currency hidden in a sofa on his ranch.

The hantavirus-hit ​MV Hondius departed the Spanish island of Tenerife for the Netherlands as the last six passengers and some crew members were evacuated from the luxury cruise ship.

Two alleged hit men have been arrested and charged after a months-long investigation into an alleged plot to take out a prominent underworld figure.

Groups of passengers and crew disembarked from a cruise ship hit by ​a deadly hantavirus outbreak on Sunday to be evacuated to their home countries where they will isolate according to national protocols to prevent further spread of ‌the disease.

President Donald Trump’s swift rejection of Iran’s response to a U.S. peace proposal ​sent oil prices surging higher on Monday amid concerns the 10-week-old conflict will drag on, keeping shipping through the Strait of Hormuz paralyzed.

Not enough has been done to help younger generations enter the housing market since Labor was re-elected last year, the prime minister has admitted ahead of the federal budget.