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US says it will try to free merchant ships stranded by Iran's blockade

Iran has warned that US interference in the Strait would be a ceasefire violation

Donald Trump has been speaking of Project Freedom which will aim to restore freedom of navigation, although Mr Trump said commercial ships wouldn't be able to return until the area became safe.

We will also bring you a report from inside Iran as Human rights groups there accuse the government of carrying out widespread arrests, torture and executions.

And three people have died in a suspected hantavirus outbreak on an Atlantic cruise ship.

(Photo: A view of Iranian-flagged cargo ship Touska as USS Spruance (DDG 111) conducts its interception; Credit: CENTCOM/Reuters)

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