World·2026-07-11T04:06:56+00:00
Spain battles to contain one of its deadliest wildfires as at least 12 killed
In 1984, 20 people died in a fire on the Canary Island of La Gomera, while in 1979, 21 people, including nine children, died in a forest fire near Lloret de Mar in north-eastern Spain. 'Really frightening, unbelievably quick': Witnesses describe fleeing deadly Spain wildfire Wildfire in southern Spain leaves at least 12 dead and 23 missing France records 2,025 excess deaths at peak of heatwave as Europe. Hundreds of firefighters and other specialists have been deployed around the village of Bedar where 12 people have been killed - among them four Britons, according to Spanish authorities.
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Local·2026-07-11T11:59:11+00:00
Nigeria says army has killed 300 bandits in north-western state of Zamfara
Vigilantes also took part in the fight that raged all night and the following morning, residents say Nigerian soldiers killed more than 300 members of kidnapping and cattle bandit gangs in the north-western state of Zamfara this week, according to a government official. Government troops targeted the gangs in Gummi district in a two-day operation that “led to the elimination of more than 300 terrorists”, Zamfara’s information commissioner, Mahmud Muhammad Dantawasa, said in.
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World·2026-07-11T17:23:19+00:00
Venezuela quake death toll passes 4,300 as scale of recovery effort looms large
Nearly 17,000 injured and thousands more listed as missing amid calls by president Delcy Rodríguez and UN for financial help The death toll in Venezuela’s serious twin earthquakes has passed 4,300, the government said on Saturday. At least 4,333 people were killed and 16,740 injured in the back-to-back quakes on 24 June that flattened entire districts in the coastal state of La Guaira, the Venezuelan parliament chief, Jorge Rodríguez, wrote on Telegram.
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