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Defiance. It is the word I heard more than any other during my week in Cuba.

A teenager alleged to be a member of the criminal cyber hacking group Scattered Spider - which was linked to attacks on M&S and Transport for London - has been arrested, according to US authorities. 

At least 59 people have been killed in flooding in Ivory Coast, according to a government spokesman,

A man has been found guilty of attempting to murder three children in Dublin.

Three pre-dawn firebomb attacks apparently targeting the residences of members of Greece's governing conservative New Democracy party have left five people in hospital, with one in a serious condition, police have said.

At least six people have been killed in a fire at an apartment block in Belgium, police have said.

All three ransom notes sent to media outlets following the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie were fake, according to the FBI.

A makeshift bomb which detonated outside a residential building in Monaco has injured three people, with reports suggesting a Ukrainian tycoon is among them.

Red alerts for extreme heat have been issued in Italy and the Balkans as a record-breaking heatwave continues to bake the European continent.

At least 14 children have been killed after the roof of an under-construction tutoring centre collapsed in Pakistan.