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In what officials are calling a deliberate act, a 50-year-old German cruise passenger died on February 6 after falling from the Costa Smeralda while the vessel was docked at Pier 12 in the Port of Civitavecchia.

Two German naval ships are taking a longer, safer route around Africa rather than risk passage through the Red Sea, where Yemen’s Houthi rebels have recently escalated attacks on maritime traffic.