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Now+ biting and stabbing animals: when is it serious?

When the insect season is in full swing, mosquitoes emerge with the changing weather. Your skin doesn’t always react the same way to a bite or sting: sometimes you get a bump, sometimes you have a limb that stays swollen for weeks. When is it serious? When an insect bites or stings you, the barrier […]

Backstory

Dog of Johan Derksen asleep: ‘Has been in between us for twelve years’

Cuby, Johan Derksen’s dog, has passed away. The four-legged friend was ill and was therefore euthanized last weekend, it was announced on Friday evening in Shownieuws. “He has been lying between us for twelve years,” the television analyst responded in the SBS6 program. “We really have to get used to it in bed,” he said.

General

13 dead and 23 girls missing due to bad weather and floods in Texas

Heavy rainfall and flooding have claimed the lives of at least thirteen residents of Texas. In addition, 23 girls who were at camp in the American state went missing. Texas is currently being ravaged by severe thunderstorms and rainfall. As a result, deadly floods occurred along the Guadalupe River in the south of the state

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Dangerous substance released at company in Gelders Borculo, NL-Alert sent

The Noord- and Oost-Gelderland safety region sent out an NL-Alert on Friday evening due to a hazardous substance that was released at a company in Borculo. Dark yellow clouds can be seen above Borculo in images. A spokesperson for the safety region tells the ANP that a chemical reaction with various substances has occurred in

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Road free for cease-fire in Gaza: Hamas positive about American proposal

Hamas is positive about an American proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza. According to the US, Israel agrees in broad terms with the plan for a sixty-day ceasefire. This seems to pave the way for a ceasefire. The current proposal is based on the plan of the American envoy Steve Witkoff, which was already presented

Sport

Defending champion Alcaraz reaches eighth finals Wimbledon with convincing victory

Carlos Alcaraz extended his winning streak at Wimbledon on Friday. The Spanish defending champion was too strong for German Jan-Lennard Struff in four sets in the third round: 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 and 6-4. The 22-year-old Alcaraz was quickly done with the thirteen-year-older Struff (ATP-125) in the first set, which made a simple victory for the

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