The United Kingdom is sending military paratroopers to a remote island to assist in the care of a suspected hantavirus patient. The Dutch cruise ship has meanwhile docked in the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, after which authorities are holding a controlled evacuation and repatriation of passengers on Sunday and Monday.
Two women with wingsuits were seriously injured in an accident in Vorarlberg, Austria, on Saturday afternoon after colliding in mid-air.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is making sky-high demands for a possible meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that the norovirus has broken out on a cruise ship touring the Caribbean. More than 100 passengers and 10 crew members have already been felled by the contagious stomach flu.
A 21-year-old Dutch backpacker may have triggered an outbreak of measles in Panama. The young traveler returned last week from a long tour of South America and reported with symptoms of high fever, coughing and a blown-out rash. Doctors quickly diagnosed measles shortly after arriving in Panama City. Subsequently, the young Dutchman was placed in isolation. This is the first time in a long time that the contagious disease has appeared in the Central American country.
A reassuring message reaches us from Poland: The 14-year-old Dutch boy who had been missing for three weeks has been found in Poland. He is healthy and well and was sleeping under a blanket at a bus stop.
A suicide bombing took place on Saturday night in the city of Bannu, in northwestern Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan.
The Dutch ship has since docked in the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, after which authorities are holding a controlled evacuation and repatriation of passengers on Sunday and Monday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is celebrating Europe Day today "not in a formal way or with empty slogans," but with the understanding that Ukraine is an "inseparable part of the European family."
On the Spanish island of Fuerteventura, a 56-year-old Belgian woman was found dead in a garbage dump.