10 days · 5 summary articles
Paramedics in Michigan charged the parents of 7-year-old Casper O’Brien with murder after the boy died in their crammed home, where he weighed 225 lb and was struggling to breathe when they called for help on Friday, according to court documents . The boy’s body was found at the family’s residence in Detroit on 27 June 2026; prosecutors allege neglect and deliberate maltreatment.
Across Europe, a lethal weekend of heat and water claimed multiple lives. In Germany, six people died in swimming accidents as temperatures soared, including a six-year-old boy who drowned in the Rhine-Herne Canal . Divers recovered the body of a missing man at a busy lake near Raunheim on Saturday morning . In Slovakia, two bodies were pulled from Zlaté piesky Lake in Bratislava on Friday evening, police confirmed .
In Spain, Mossos d’Esquadra arrested a nurse in Manresa on suspicion of killing her firefighter husband by spiking his food and drink with benzodiazepines and fentanyl; the victim died in February at the hospital where she worked . In Italy, a 32-year-old woman was left with 18 percent burns to her face after an acid attack outside her mother’s home in Peseggia di Scorzè; police are hunting the assailant .
In France, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez condemned what he called “exploitation by the far right” after a 17-year-old boy, Louis, was beaten to death in a filmed ambush in Narbonne on 20 June; the footage circulated widely online . In Greece, a 17-year-old described to police how a mob of 15–20 people in Kalithea chased him before he was struck with a club and fatally wounded; he claimed the knife found in his possession was for self-defence .
In Cyprus, two women aged 38 and 58 were hospitalised in stable condition after an attempted murder in Nicosia on Saturday afternoon; officers are searching for the suspect . In the Netherlands, three people were stabbed, two seriously, in Almere on Friday; police have arrested three suspects .
In Denmark, a 21-year-old festival-goer died after being struck by a train outside the Roskilde Festival grounds early on Saturday . In Sweden, the body of a teenage girl was found stuffed in a suitcase in a tourist area of Thailand; an Australian man has been arrested for murder .
Follow us for live European news
1 further source not geolocated