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As countries on the eastern Mediterranean experienced an early heatwave, Spain's Costa Blanca region and the island of Majorca were both inundated by Storm Tamara, prompting local officials to declare weather emergencies. Both destinations are popular with British tourists, and the rain will have dampened holidays for many hoping to escape the disappointing spring in the UK. At Majorca's Palma airport, local media said 44 square meters of rain fell in just one hour on Tuesday - flooding the runway and grounding at least 100 flights. And in Murcia, rain lashed down hard, with several videos posted online showing fast moving water flowing through the southeastern city's streets.

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The man, in his 50s, was on a kayaking group trip on the river Durance near Briancon, in the southeast of France, on Tuesday afternoon.

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British tourists in Rhodes have described 'the whole airport shaking' in the wake of a 4.8 magnitude earthquake that hit the Greek island on Wednesday night.

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The depopulated village Sambuca di Sicilia has seen huge surge in demand for its properties since the first two auctions in 2019 and 2021.

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Ecologists in Action has named and shamed the worst offenders in a report highlighting problems including chemical pollution, marine waste, over-development and sewage discharges.

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Scotland have the honour of opening the tournament by facing Germany in the first match tomorrow, and supporters have already made their presence felt in the Bavarian capital.

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The unsettling footage comes asdeputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev issued a scathing condemnation of the West and called on Moscow to inflict 'maximum harm'

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Footage shows the shockingly skinny black bear in its concrete enclosure at the Jiulongtan Scenic Area Zoo in Panzhou, in China's south-western Guizhou Province.

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Russian corporal Nadbit Dabaev, 23 (top right), and unit commander Nikolai Senenko, 37 (bottom right), were both identified by investigators following harrowing testimonies given by their victims. The younger Russian allegedly twice raped a young woman after he tore her away from her parents' house in a village near Kyiv in the early days of the war following the February 2022 invasion by Vladimir Putin's forces. Senenko meanwhile is said to have sexually abused a pregnant 16-year-old after having threatened to call a company of 20 men to gang-rape her if she did not comply. The cases form part of an ever-expanding dossier being compiled by Ukrainian and international investigators of war crimes committed by Putin's invaders.

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Footage taken by shocked bystanders showed dozens of beer boxes and broken bottles strewn across the Siemensstrasse in Berlin at around 7pm yesterday. Onlookers captured how the entire street was blocked by the debris as frothy booze flowed into the roadside drains, with authorities now investigating the cause of the accident. The truck was carrying £2 bottles of Berliner Kindl beer en route to several bars prior to the tragic smash. The Berlin City Cleaning Service was busy cleaning the street until after midnight, according to local outlets. Such a disastrous loss of beer has left many footy fans feeling heartbroken ahead of the hotly anticipated Euros, whose first match kicks off tomorrow.

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WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES. Doctor Orlem Brandon Serrao made the gruesome discovery on Thursday as he tucked into an ice cream cone at his home in Mumbai, India.

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Neighbours fans have rushed to point out the resemblance between Tony Blair 's statue and a former star of the long-running Australian soap opera.

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The French President is backing the proposals made in a report earlier this year by a panel of experts over the negative effects of tech and social media use on children and teenagers

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More than 1.5million Muslim pilgrims have arrived inMecca ahead of the start of the Hajj later this week, with more worshippers set to join, according to Saudi officials.

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Pictures show topless and heavily tattooed inmates lined up under the watchful eye of armed guards at the Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), a maximum security facility in Tecoluca

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Three Samyang Foods noodle products were assessed to have dangerous levels of capsaicin, the active component of chilli peppers.

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The rise of populist right-wing parties is raising major questions for global stability amid potential impacts on policies from migration to security and climate. Now, an expert on European politics and identity has analysed the situation across the continent for MailOnline to look at the key geopolitical issues moving forward. DR GABRIELA BORZ said the pandemic and economic climate had helped create a 'consolidation' of the populist vote at last week's European Parliament elections . She also cited false narratives circulating via TikTok and Facebook in Italy, Spain and Germany for trying to induce fear and mistrust, with the Russians blamed. EU officials have been attempting to battle disinformation in the run-up to the elections, and there are concerns about how the changing political landscape could impact support for Ukraine against the invasion by Vladimir Putin 's forces. But the senior lecturer at the University of Strathclyde insisted there were more signs of 'future stability than instability' in the context of the ongoing conflict.

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The band were performing in the Greek capital on the European leg of their 'Music of the Spheres' tour when Martin spotted the audience member making a beeline for the set. Dramatic footage captured the moment Martin, 47, hushed the band and began shouting 'stop, stop, stop!' at the oncoming man, who fell as he attempted to clamber over a lighting rig close to the edge of the stage. Martin and guitarist Johnny Buckland were seen rushing to the lip of the set where they looked down at the individual desperate to make it onto the stage as crew members and security flooded the scene. It later transpired the man in question was Israeli social media influencer Guy Hochman, who shared clips of himself brandishing his country's flag in the crowd before he made his ill-fated attempt that ultimately ended in a broken rib. Hochman, 35, was recently condemned for making jokes about the killing of Palestinians amid the Israel-Hamas war.

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Several Russian aircraft have been intercepted in recent days by three separate NATO fighter squadrons of Germany , Italy and Spain launching from bases in the Baltics

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Relations between the two Koreas - technically still at war - are at one of their lowest points in years, with the North sending hundreds of balloons full of trash and faeces into the South

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Emergency services descended on the chateau early this afternoon to extinguish the blaze as tourists and staff members flooded out of the storied building and into the sprawling gardens

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The two have been bitter rivals ever since 'sofa*gate', which saw von der Leyen being left without a chair at a meeting between Turkey and the European Union in 2021 to discuss women's rights.

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The 26-year-old was pictured huggingDitza Or, the mother ofAvinatan Or, who is one of several people taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 and into Gaza.

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A row erupted into the fistfightover a controversial government proposal that opponents say will further impoverish Italy's poorer south. One opposition politician was taken to hospital, reports said. Video of the fight on Wednesday showed politicians converging on Leonardo Donno, of the 5-Star Movement, who opposes the changes.

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