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5 months, 4 weeks ago

‘It’s hell outside': Sizzling heat wave in parts of southern and central Europe prompts alerts

BELGRADE, Serbia — Weather alerts, forest fires, melting pavement in cities: A sizzling heat wave has sent temperatures in parts of central and southern Europe soaring toward 40 degrees Celsius in some places. Rome’s municipal authorities issued a digital app to help people locate public drinking fountains as temperatures reached 38 C on Thursday. “It’s hell outside.” Mendim Rugova, a …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

Recalling the Event that Triggered Democracy’s Third Wave

News 18

“The third wave of democratisation in the modern world began,” says Samuel P. Huntington, “implausibly and unwittingly, at twenty-five minutes after midnight, Thursday, April 25, 1974, in Lisbon, Portugal, when a radio station played the song ‘Grandola Vila Morena’. However, the revolutionary Left, as Harvey tells, “ran up against the brick wall first of Church’s influence in northern Portugal and …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Acropolis’ midday closure leaves many tourists in the lurch as a heat wave lashes southern Europe

Associated Press

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Disgruntled tourists bemoaned the temporary closing of the Acropolis in Athens on Friday as Greek authorities proactively shut the world monument’s gates between midday and early evening amid a heat wave that continues to grip southern Europe. In Italy, the country’s health ministry on Friday warned residents of 10 cities from Bologna to Rome to avoid being …

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2 years ago

Europe kicks off 2023 with a record-setting heat wave

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Europe broke heat records last year, and 2023 is shaping up to be no different. A winter heat dome descended on the continent right just in time for New Year's Day, crushing thousands of standing high-temperature records. Climatologist Maximiliano Herrera told CNN it's "the most extreme heat wave in European history." Climate researchers say the science linking climate change to …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Europe creaking under weight of new wave of Ukrainian refugees

The Telegraph

Europe is experiencing a fresh wave of Ukrainian refugees who are being forced from their homes because Russian attacks on power stations have left them without heat and electricity. Exact numbers of refugees staying in Hungary are unclear as Ukrainians have a visa free travel agreement with the EU, but 27,993 asylum applications have been approved so far out of …

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2 years, 2 months ago

New Omicron subvariant expected to drive Covid wave in Europe

Hindustan Times

A new omicron subvariant is poised to become dominant in Europe and will probably drive another increase in Covid-19 cases, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said. Representational image The BQ.1 subvariant, and its sublineage BQ.1.1, will probably dominate in Europe by mid-November to the beginning of December and help send cases up in “coming weeks to months,” …

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2 years, 5 months ago

New wildfires in Greece as Europe braces for more heat

Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece — Battered by heavy winds, firefighters in Greece struggled to contain new fires Wednesday around the capital of Athens while other countries in southern Europe took stock of the damage caused during the latest severe heat wave and prepared for the return of scorching temperatures. “Given the conditions created by climate change, we have new fires expanding,” Greece’s …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Extreme weather made worse by climate change

China Daily

Water is used to cool down a sheep rescued from a forest fire in Boa Vista, Portugal, on Tuesday. Piet Filet, a flood expert, said reducing the impact of floods in and around the Sydney Basin "will require a long-term resilience building program with communities in flood-prone catchments". Filet, from the Australian Rivers Institute at Griffith University, said the history …

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2 years, 6 months ago

EU warns of dire climate season ahead with droughts, fires

India Today

The European Union’s executive warned on Thursday that the continent is facing one of its toughest years when it comes to natural disasters like droughts and wildfires because of increasing climate change. With extremely dry weather hitting several Mediterranean nations, EU Commissioner Maro efovi told legislators on Thursday that “the present drought in Europe could become the worst ever.” Fires …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Europe Bets On COVID-19 Christmas Miracle As Third Wave Looms

Huff Post

LONDON — From behind his Downing Street desk, a self-isolating U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson proclaimed on Monday that an “escape route” from COVID-19 was now finally in sight. “Either we break a third wave at Christmas or we make a third wave at Christmas,” Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, who plans to celebrate only with his wife and …

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