A Cessna 402 operated by the airline Flamingo Air crashed in the Bahamas on Friday, killing ten people. Prime Minister Philip Davis declared Independence Day a day of mourning.
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For the second time in five days, Cuba's national power grid collapsed on Friday afternoon, plunging the entire country into darkness and prompting emergency protocols. State utility UNE initially gave no reason for the failure, which officials linked to an ageing grid and a near-total halt in oil deliveries tied to US sanctions.
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More than two weeks after two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela, authorities have confirmed at least 4,118 deaths. The government in Caracas says nearly 18,000 people lost their homes, while UN estimates suggest up to 50,000 may still be missing.
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At least twelve people, including children, have died in a devastating forest fire in the southern Spanish province of Almería. 23 people are still considered missing, and more than 1,400 people have been evacuated. Over 500 emergency personnel are battling the flames, which have already destroyed nearly 4,000 hectares of land.
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An embankment fire on Friday morning damaged several signal cables on the railway line between Düsseldorf and Cologne, forcing a full shutdown of the section and disrupting both local and long-distance services. Germany's state security unit has taken over the investigation into whether the blaze was set deliberately, while Deutsche Bahn said it could not yet say when trains would run again.
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On a Ryanair flight from Thessaloniki to Memmingen on Friday, a cabin window shattered, and a passenger was partially pulled out of the aircraft. The crew immediately descended the plane and returned to Thessaloniki, where the man was taken to a hospital.
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A 64-year-old Austrian woman was seriously injured on Friday morning when a mother cow attacked her during a walk near the Finstertaler Stausee reservoir in Kühtai, Tyrol. The animal struck her with its head, causing her to lose her balance and tumble roughly ten metres down a rocky embankment toward the lake before she was airlifted to hospital in Innsbruck.
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At the Traiskirchen outdoor pool in the district of Baden, a 36-year-old man was pulled motionless from the water on Thursday and resuscitated. The patient was airlifted to Wiener Neustadt hospital by the ÖAMTC emergency medical helicopter "Christophorus 3".
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In Oberlienz in East Tyrol, a 51-year-old racing cyclist was seriously injured in a collision with a turning car. The 29-year-old car driver had noticed the woman too late when turning into a municipal road, the Lienz police station reported.
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While celebrating the French national football team's semifinal qualification, a 17-year-old lost her life in the northern French town of Aulnoye-Aymeries. According to rescue services, the girl had climbed onto a tractor unit, fallen off, and been run over.
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A 31-year-old kitchen employee suffered severe burns to both legs from hot frying oil on Friday morning in a restaurant kitchen in Gröbming, Styria. After receiving initial emergency medical care, she was flown by the rescue helicopter Christophorus 14 to LKH Graz.
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On July 10, 2026, a serious traffic accident involving a Lamborghini worth 500,000 euros occurred on the A555 autobahn near Bornheim. The 32-year-old driver lost his life, while his passenger was critically injured. Police are investigating on suspicion of an illegal street race.
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Eleven people have died and nineteen remain missing after a wildfire tore through the village of Bedar in Spain's southern Almeria province, officials said. The blaze is one of several burning across Spain and France as Western Europe endures its third heatwave in six weeks.
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ASFINAG is sounding the alarm: More and more vehicles are burning on Austria's highways because of the ongoing heat. In the first half of 2026, 151 cars and trucks have already been consumed by flames, in addition to 20 embankment fires.
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