News 10/05/26

The first passengers and crew from the MV Hondius have disembarked in Tenerife after the cruise ship arrived earlier this morning, according to officials.

The voyage began in southern Argentina on the first of April and two passengers died during the journey. All one hundred and forty nine people onboard, including twenty two Britons, are not showing symptoms of hantavirus.

Iran has warned vessels from countries complying with United States sanctions could face difficulties crossing the Strait of Hormuz.

Comments carried by Tasnim news agency were attributed to Iranian army spokesperson Mohammad Akraminia. Iranian lawmakers say they are drafting legislation to formalise management of the waterway, including clauses forbidding passage to vessels from hostile states.

Sir Keir Starmer is facing the first explicit threat of a leadership challenge from one of his MPs.

Former minister Catherine West’s interview with Radio Four’s PM programme raised eyebrows around Westminster. Labour MPs across the party reportedly said they did not expect the comments, with one figure on the Left asking what was going on while another simply said crikey.

Two men who filmed themselves verbally abusing a Jewish man in northeast London for social media content have pleaded guilty to an antisemitic hate crime.

Adam Bedoui and Abdelkader Amir Bousloub travelled to Clapton Common and filmed the encounter on TikTok. Metropolitan Police said the pair tried to flee but were detained by officers before appearing at Thames Magistrates’ Court.

The MV Hondius has arrived within the port of Granadilla de Abona in Tenerife after uncertainty over how passengers would disembark.

There had been disagreement until late last night over whether the ship would remain offshore or come into port. Spanish health officials have now boarded the vessel to carry out final checks and begin disembarking passengers, according to the country’s health ministry.

More than two hundred thousand people have arrived in the UK in small boats since records began eight years ago.

Sky News understands the milestone was reached on Friday when new arrivals brought the total to two hundred thousand and thirteen. The Home Office says seventy people crossed the English Channel on Friday, bringing this year’s total to seven thousand three hundred and eighty. Around forty one thousand people crossed the Channel in twenty twenty five, a thirteen percent increase on last year.