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We have some updates from Tenerife, where a small group of Spanish passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit MV Hondius cruise ship has reportedly left on a plane for the Gómez Ulla Central Defense hospital in Madrid. They will be under quarantine when they reach Madrid.

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German defence minister Boris Pistorius is reportedly planning a trip to Washington to revive Germany’s offer to buy long-range systems, which was first submitted last July. The US is yet to respond to this offer.","elementId":"884f0c5c-a690-42d8-b5b9-0d6630ef974e"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"

The visit, however, hinges upon whether Pistorius can secure a meeting with Pete Hegseth, his US ​counterpart, the FT reports. “The key thing is to have the strike capabilities in Europe,” a “government insider” told the newspaper.","elementId":"ada85098-2f74-4628-9484-6e225e10b693"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"

Tomahawk land attack missiles, first used in combat in 1991, are long-range, guided cruise missiles typically launched from sea to attack targets in deep-strike missions.","elementId":"6d88612d-a7f4-4697-b0af-f05d14d3ef9d"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"

There are no European ground-launched long-range systems immediately available, according to the FT report. So the Tomahawk missiles, along with the mobile Typhon launchers Germany also reportedly wants to buy from the US, would allow the German armed forces to hit targets hundreds of kilometres deep into enemy territory if necessary.","elementId":"d89059c1-7c9c-4156-875c-f48990c29d3d"}],"attributes":{"pinned":false,"keyEvent":true,"summary":false},"blockCreatedOn":1778408652000,"blockCreatedOnDisplay":"12.24 CEST","blockLastUpdated":1778410269000,"blockLastUpdatedDisplay":"12.51 CEST","blockFirstPublished":1778409626000,"blockFirstPublishedDisplay":"12.40 CEST","blockFirstPublishedDisplayNoTimezone":"12.40","title":"Germany revives effort to buy US Tomahawks - report","contributors":[],"primaryDateLine":"Sun 10 May 2026 14.00 CEST","secondaryDateLine":"First published on Sun 10 May 2026 10.04 CEST"},{"id":"6a004e928f08d0fd2ca4bd9a","elements":[{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"

In other news, there are reports of Russian attacks continuing on Ukraine despite a ceasefire that was meant to run from Saturday 9 May to Monday 11 May.","elementId":"a3658bc6-28e0-44b3-8bef-5dc684e758b3"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"

There are reports of people being injured by Russian strikes in areas including the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson regions.","elementId":"98aeb295-2599-4e4c-811b-f4efc5732f0a"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"

Russia, Ukraine and the US president, Donald Trump, on Friday announced that a three-day ceasefire between both sides would come into effect from Saturday, when Russia held a scaled-back Victory Day parade in Moscow’s Red Square.","elementId":"2dad2308-a743-40c6-abe5-ba2340963ce8"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"

Moscow and Kyiv have traded accusations of violations amid continued drone activity and civilian casualties on both sides. The Kremlin said there were no plans to prolong the truce.","elementId":"ecf8235a-c027-401d-bc85-12c9f86f9cbb"}],"attributes":{"pinned":false,"keyEvent":true,"summary":false},"blockCreatedOn":1778405010000,"blockCreatedOnDisplay":"11.23 CEST","blockLastUpdated":1778407473000,"blockLastUpdatedDisplay":"12.04 CEST","blockFirstPublished":1778407473000,"blockFirstPublishedDisplay":"12.04 CEST","blockFirstPublishedDisplayNoTimezone":"12.04","title":"Russian attacks reportedly continue on Ukraine despite ceasefire","contributors":[],"primaryDateLine":"Sun 10 May 2026 14.00 CEST","secondaryDateLine":"First published on Sun 10 May 2026 10.04 CEST"},{"id":"6a0045c38f08f695b7fc0f16","elements":[{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"

The government has begun the evacuation of the first passengers from the MV Hondius ship which arrived in Tenerife this morning, ending a journey that started in southern Argentina on 1 April.","elementId":"3fdf69c8-9866-4e80-b465-32dba47e556c"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"

A small group of passengers, all Spanish nationals, is now headed to Tenerife’s port of Granadilla, Spain’s health ministry said.","elementId":"ef019239-2b64-4047-a61c-e9f4c3055876"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"

Good morning, and welcome to our Europe live blog. Spanish health ​officials have said all the passengers on the ‌hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius remain asymptomatic after the vessel arrived in Tenerife on Sunday, almost a month after the first passenger died of the rodent-borne disease on board the ship.","elementId":"8577e9a6-c671-47ea-8a14-b242c59212f3"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"

“The anchoring has been a success despite all the difficulties,” the health minister, Mónica García, said after intensive preparations to receive the ship in the port of Granadilla were carried out over recent days.","elementId":"4eb4ac09-807b-4e12-861e-11c8c3ac6c8a"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"

García said they were undergoing a final medical assessment before their disembarkation and confirmed that all the repatriation flights taking citizens back to their countries will take off by tomorrow.","elementId":"c59b8f66-5e2a-4df3-b875-59c6638170d7"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"

There were 146 passengers from 20 different nationalities onboard the MV Hondius, where an outbreak has killed three people and caused an international health scare. These countries included the UK, the US, Germany, Canada, the Netherlands, Denmark, the Philippines and Singapore.","elementId":"abc68198-a06c-46e7-bb1e-65bdbd4827b2"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"

Authorities have said the passengers and crew members who will disembark will have no contact with the local population in Tenerife. Health officials continue to stress that the risk of contagion for the general population is low.","elementId":"05bae1b8-dd9f-4c6d-989c-d00b4b295b84"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"

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Angelique Chrisafis

Angelique Chrisafis is the Guardian’s Paris correspondent

Five French passengers on the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship have boarded a special medical flight from Tenerife and are en route to Paris. The flight took off from Tenerife at around noon local time.

Nicolas Pillerel of the French embassy in Spain was present in Tenerife to oversee logistics. He told the French public broadcaster FranceInfo that the foreign office crisis centre had organised a special flight with medical staff on board to transport the five people to an airport in the Paris area.

The five cruise-ship passengers would then be hospitalised for 72 hours for tests and monitoring, in line with World Health Organisation guidelines.

After this, the five people would return to their homes in France where they would have to isolate for 45 days under strict monitoring and controls by French health authorities.

The French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu has called a special meeting of ministers and health officials in Paris this afternoon to discuss the situation.

We have some updates from Tenerife, where a small group of Spanish passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit MV Hondius cruise ship has reportedly left on a plane for the Gómez Ulla Central Defense hospital in Madrid. They will be under quarantine when they reach Madrid.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that he thought Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was coming to an end (see this story for more detail).

“I think that the matter is coming to an end,” Putin told reporters after a scaled-back military parade in Moscow commemorating the Soviet victory in World War Two, referring to the “special military operation” (war) in Ukraine.

Putin indicated that he would be willing to negotiate new security arrangements for Europe, saying his preferred negotiating partner would be Gerhard Schröder, who was German chancellor from 1998 to 2005, and has a background of being a close friend and ally of Putin, and history of business ties to Russia.

The German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said recently that a planned deployment of US long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to Germany – announced by the former US president Joe Biden – was being called off, at least for the time being.

Merz’s criticism of the US-Israeli war on Iran – and his suggestion that the US had been “humiliated” by Iranian negotiators – has angered Donald Trump, causing relations between Berlin and Washington to slump to a low point.

Pentagon officials are alarmed at the fact the US military fired over 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles in the first four weeks of war on Iran, according to the Washington Post.

The rapid rate of use prompted internal discussions about how to make more of the missiles available, sources told the US outlet.Germany revives effort to buy US Tomahawks - report

Germany is reviving efforts to buy Tomahawk cruise missiles from the ​US, the Financial Times is reporting.

German defence minister Boris Pistorius is reportedly planning a trip to Washington to revive Germany’s offer to buy long-range systems, which was first submitted last July. The US is yet to respond to this offer.

The visit, however, hinges upon whether Pistorius can secure a meeting with Pete Hegseth, his US ​counterpart, the FT reports. “The key thing is to have the strike capabilities in Europe,” a “government insider” told the newspaper.

Tomahawk land attack missiles, first used in combat in 1991, are long-range, guided cruise missiles typically launched from sea to attack targets in deep-strike missions.

There are no European ground-launched long-range systems immediately available, according to the FT report. So the Tomahawk missiles, along with the mobile Typhon launchers Germany also reportedly wants to buy from the US, would allow the German armed forces to hit targets hundreds of kilometres deep into enemy territory if necessary.Russian attacks reportedly continue on Ukraine despite ceasefire

In other news, there are reports of Russian attacks continuing on Ukraine despite a ceasefire that was meant to run from Saturday 9 May to Monday 11 May.

There are reports of people being injured by Russian strikes in areas including the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson regions.

One person was killed and three others injured in Russian attacks on the Zaporizhia and Polohiv regions, Zaporizhzhia’s governor, Ivan Fedorov, said in a Telegram post this morning. Ukraine’s air force said it intercepted all 27 drones launched by Russia overnight.

Russia, Ukraine and the US president, Donald Trump, on Friday announced that a three-day ceasefire between both sides would come into effect from Saturday, when Russia held a scaled-back Victory Day parade in Moscow’s Red Square.

Moscow and Kyiv have traded accusations of violations amid continued drone activity and civilian casualties on both sides. The Kremlin said there were no plans to prolong the truce.

You can read the latest developments about the evacuation efforts from Tenerife in this wrap up by my colleague Robyn Vinter:

Robyn Vinter

Robyn Vinter is a Guardian correspondent reporting from Tenerife

There has been a flurry of action as a handful of Spanish passengers have made their way off the MV Hondius in blue plastic ponchos, helped by medical teams in hazmat suits.

They were taken from the ship to the dock in a small boat and then straight onto a coach now heading for the airport only a couple of miles away.

Meanwhile, the European commissioner for equality, preparedness and crisis management, Hadja Lahbib, has said that an air ambulance has been sent from Norway to Tenerife at Spain’s request.

Following Spain’s request under the #EUCivilProtection Mechanism, a rescEU air ambulance is being deployed from Norway to Tenerife in response to the #Hantavirus situation aboard the MS Hondius.

An EU liaison officer is on site to support coordination on the ground. pic.twitter.com/inuH9QzkkS— Hadja Lahbib (@hadjalahbib) May 10, 2026 ","alt":"Air ambulance. ","index":1,"isTracking":false,"isMainMedia":false,"source":"Twitter","sourceDomain":"platform.twitter.com","isPinnedPost":false}">First group of Spanish passengers disembarks from hantavirus-hit crui