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  • Jul 19

    Over 100 homes destroyed in Norway's largest residential fire since WWII

    A fire that started in a townhouse in Drammen, Norway, on Friday afternoon spread rapidly through a residential neighborhood and into forests, destroying more than 100 homes and forcing over 400 people to evacuate. Firefighters brought the blaze under control by Saturday after a rainstorm, but the cause remains unknown.

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France detains 270 in protests

Russia batters Ukraine's power grid with 320 drones

Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia hit more than 15 power-generation and transmission sites across Ukraine from Friday evening to Saturday morning with more than 320 Shahed-type drones, plus missiles and loitering munitions. Repair crews mobilised across several regions as Washington suspended parts of a sanctions law aimed at Moscow.

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Two member states agreed to lift bilateral border checks, a bilateral step with no new legal or EU-level change.

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