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Three people have died in a suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship, according to ABC News. Hantavirus is a rare rodent-borne virus that can cause severe respiratory illness in humans. Health officials are expected to investigate how exposure occurred on board and whether other passengers or crew are at risk. The deaths have raised questions about sanitary conditions and disease monitoring on cruise vessels.

Emmanuel Macron announced that the French Navy boarded the tanker DF Peak more than 450 nautical miles south of Réunion. The vessel is suspected of sailing under a false flag and transporting fuel illegally. Macron said France is determined to combat the so-called ghost fleet wherever it operates in the world, signalling continued action against unflagged tankers linked to sanctions evasion.

The Italian Navy's historic training ship Amerigo Vespucci is in Ravenna as part of its ongoing tour, continuing a series of public visits and on-board events. The vessel has been making stops in Italian ports, with recent appearances including Trieste, where officials hosted events aboard. The tall ship, one of the world's oldest still in service, typically opens to visitors at each port of call.

A Royal Caribbean cruise ship declared an 'Oscar' emergency code and circled for hours after a passenger went overboard following an incident involving an inflatable ring. The captain's announcement signaled a man-overboard situation, with the vessel returning to search the area. Searches and rescue operations of this kind are rare and typically draw widespread attention because of the difficulty of spotting a person at sea.

Posts are claiming that a ship in the Strait of Hormuz was not damaged by a mine but was instead struck by a torpedo fired from an Iranian semi-submersible torpedo boat. The claim comes amid heightened tensions between Iran and the United States in the region. There is no confirmation of the vessel's identity or the cause of the damage from official sources.

Several shipping stories are circulating in Russian media at once. The EU reportedly failed to assemble ten ships for its Red Sea mission, a drone sank a vessel near Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, and US CENTCOM said it destroyed 13 tankers linked to Iran's IRGC. Domestically, Northern Fleet warships arrived in Dudinka and sailed the Shokalsky Strait for the first time in Russian naval history.

Kaliningrad is drawing attention after Russian officials warned of readiness for a nuclear response if NATO blockades the Kaliningrad region. NATO members condemned what they called Russian nuclear threats over the territory. Separately, the regional emergency ministry said it had received no information about the reported towing of the vessel Sunny Faith, leaving the ship's status unclear.

Russian regions reported a massive overnight drone attack, with the defence ministry saying 479 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed. Rostov Oblast was among the hardest hit: six people were injured, bridges, homes and vessels were damaged, and 25 trains were delayed. Authorities also reported drone shootdowns in Yaroslavl, Tver and other regions, and air quality checks after smoke in Rostov.

Russia's Defence Ministry says its forces hit a bulk carrier in the Black Sea that was delivering a military cargo to Ukraine. Reports say the vessel was carrying supplies for Ukrainian forces to the port of Odesa, with some outlets also citing the port of Chornomorsk as the destination. The strike adds to ongoing attacks on shipping infrastructure in the region.

European action against Russia's so-called shadow fleet is intensifying. The French navy has cut a supply line of one of the tankers used by Moscow to evade sanctions and keep exporting oil, while reports detail how Europe is hunting Putin's tankers. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has warned that aging, poorly maintained vessels along European coasts pose a serious risk of an oil spill, adding urgency to the crackdown.

A vessel reportedly carrying LNG or oil has caught fire at the port of Sochi in Russia, sending a huge column of black smoke and flames into the sky. Footage shared by local residents shows the ship ablaze at the Black Sea port. The cause of the fire and any casualties have not yet been confirmed.

The US military has attacked another ship shortly after it left Iran, according to a report by WEB.DE. The strike, described as a renewed attack, follows a series of recent incidents involving vessels in the region. The search term 'frachtschiff' (freighter) is drawing attention in Germany as people seek details on the targeted cargo vessel and what the escalating maritime strikes mean for shipping and regional tensions.

Shipping analytics firm Kpler published a dry bulk outlook examining the capesize ballaster list and India's seaborne coal imports, with India's coal demand a key driver of ton-mile demand for capesize vessels. Market watchers are using the analysis to gauge how ballasting patterns and Indian buying will shape freight rates in the dry bulk segment.

The US military says it disabled a cargo vessel that was attempting to run a blockade around Iran. The operation, reported by Reuters, involved stopping the ship in waters near the Gulf region, with Oman among the countries drawing attention as regional tensions grow. The vessel's crew, cargo and onward movements remain subjects of ongoing reporting.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced that French forces carried out an operation to seize a tanker believed to be part of Russia's so-called shadow fleet in the Indian Ocean. Russia is thought to use hundreds of ageing vessels to transport oil around the world in breach of Western sanctions, and the seizure marks a rare direct interception of one of these ships.

A woman jumped from a cruise ship off Greece and spent around 20 hours adrift in the sea before Greek coastguards rescued her. Le Télégramme reports she had 'wanted to get off' the liner. Her survival after so long in the water is drawing astonishment and questions about how she fell unseen from the vessel.

Reports from Sweden indicate an attack on a ship in the Gulf of Oman. The incident, flagged by regional media as a US-related story, adds to ongoing concerns about shipping security in the strategic waterway linking the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea, where vessels have repeatedly been targeted in recent years.

The cruise ship Queen Anne has been photographed sailing out of the Singapore straits at sunset, with the scene captured in black-and-white. The images show the vessel silhouetted against darkening skies and water, drawing attention for the atmospheric view of the busy shipping passage at dusk.

A ferry and a cargo ship collided in waters off Ogijima, near Takamatsu in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. TBS News Dig reports that no injuries were confirmed and no oil spill was detected following the incident. Details about the vessels' damage or the cause of the collision have not yet been released, and authorities are presumably investigating the circumstances of the accident.

Football star Lionel Messi is putting a luxury catamaran up for rent, with reports highlighting that the vessel was built at a shipyard in Danzig, Poland. The story is drawing attention in German-speaking media, combining interest in Messi's off-pitch business ventures with curiosity about the high-end yacht and its northern European shipbuilding origins.