U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday ​he does not think he will need China’s help to end the war with Iran, even as hopes for a lasting peace deal ‌dwindled and Tehran tightened its grip over the Strait of Hormuz.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer defied calls to resign on Tuesday, telling ministers he would get on with ​governing despite a “destabilising” 48 hours of growing calls to set out a timetable for his departure after a drubbing in local elections.

A Dutch hospital has quarantined 12 staff members as a preventive measure after blood and urine from a hantavirus patient were handled without observing strict ​protocols, as medics around the world work to stop the spread of the outbreak.

Federal prosecutors in the United States have filed criminal charges against the owner and operator of the cargo ship Dali.

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.