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1. Jailed Iranian Nobel laureate's health condition 'very dangerous,' husband says

   

   The family of Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Narges Mohammadi say she remains in critical care after she was transferred to a Tehran hospital as a result of "intensified international pressure," over her deteriorating health condition.

2. Hundreds flee homes in Haiti amid new wave of gang violence

   

   A new wave of gang violence in Haiti has forced hundreds of people to flee their homes, leaving them scattered on Monday along a road leading to Haiti's main airport.

3. Ground zero: NATO’s drone war comes down to earth in Latvia

   

   Latvian and Canadian troops are testing battlefield ground drones on a major NATO exercise, drawing directly on Ukrainian combat lessons as autonomous warfare rapidly evolves. The war games are unfolding amid a political crisis triggered by a wayward Ukrainian drone strike — a stark warning of how electronic warfare and unmanned systems are reshaping modern conflict.

4. 3 more passengers, Spanish, French and American, evacuated from cruise ship test positive for hantavirus

   

   Passengers from a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak were being flown home Monday to more than 20 countries and quarantined, including a Spaniard, a French woman and an American who tested positive.

5. 4 Canadians from hantavirus-hit cruise ship isolating for minimum 21 days, B.C. health officer says