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    Alligator kills 71-year-old man fishing near Lake Apopka in Florida

    On Friday, 16 October, around 5 p.m. local time, an alligator pulled a 71-year-old man into the water at a park in Winter Garden, Florida. Other alligators hampered the rescue, and the animal was later killed or removed.

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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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Demography and migration

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

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