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Spain pushes ahead with social media, AI rules despite Big Tech lobbying pressure
2+ hour, 53+ min ago (355+ words) Spain will push ahead with new rules to make social networks and AI safer despite intense lobbying from the tech industry, its digital transformation minister Oscar Lopez told Reuters. "The profit of four tech companies cannot come at the expense…...
Tests in Italy, Spain come back negative in global hunt for hantavirus
10+ hour, 15+ min ago (597+ words) Seventeen people under observation in Italy and Spain for possible hantavirus infection have tested negative, the countries" health ministries said on Wednesday as governments around the globe track the virus to stop it from spreading. The MV Hondius cruise ship,…...
Hantavirus protocol breach at Dutch hospital as medics race to curb spread
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (1121+ words) 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. The 12 will…...
Evacuation flights leave Tenerife after cruise ship virus outbreak
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (1213+ words) 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....
Countries prepare to evacuate hantavirus ship passengers
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (573+ words) Countries prepared to evacuate their citizens from the luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly strain of hantavirus that is due to anchor near Tenerife early on Sunday, as health authorities said the risk of the virus spreading was low....
New suspected hantavirus cases found in Spain and remote Tristan da Cunha
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (928+ words) Two new suspected cases of hantavirus were reported on Friday, one in Spain and the other on the remote South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, as experts race to contain an outbreak that began on a luxury cruise ship....
Countries track passengers of virus-hit cruise ship
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (820+ words) Three people " a Dutch couple and a German national " died in the outbreak on the MV Hondius. A drone view of the cruise ship MV Hondius, carrying passengers suspected of having cases of hantavirus on board, leaves Praia, Cape Verde,…...
Canarians worry arrival of hantavirus cruise ship will bring repeat of COVID quarantines
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (530+ words) The arrival this weekend of a cruise ship hit by an outbreak of hantavirus is reviving memories for residents of Spain's Canary Islands of the quarantines they experienced during the COVID pandemic. The MV Hondius, carrying 150 people, is expected to…...
Pope will inaugurate Barcelona's Sagrada Familia tower and meet with migrants in June trip to Spain
1+ week, 7+ hour ago (595+ words) Pope Leo XIV'will inaugurate the soaring central tower of'Barcelona's famed Sagrada Familia basilica when he visits Spain next month in a weeklong trip that will also take him to a migrant reception centre in the Canary Islands, the Vatican said…...
Hantavirus-hit cruise ship heads to Spain after three people evacuated
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (1042+ words) A luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak and marooned since Sunday off the coast of Cape Verde left for Spain on Wednesday, a Reuters witness said, after three people, two of them seriously ill, were evacuated. The…...