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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Nicola Slawson

First Thing: Europe, Asia and US continue to face dangerous heatwaves

Water drips from a person as they grasp at their head covering while walking in the sun through ‘The Zone’, a vast homeless encampment where hundreds of people reside, during a record heatwave in Phoenix, Arizona
Water drips from a person as they grasp at their head covering while walking in the sun through ‘The Zone’, a vast homeless encampment where hundreds of people reside, during a record heatwave in Phoenix, Arizona. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images

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The World Meteorological Organization says the heatwave in the northern hemisphere is likely to intensify. An estimated 61,000 people may have died in heatwaves last year in Europe alone.

The EU’s emergency response coordination centre issued red alerts for high temperatures for most of Italy, north-eastern Spain, Croatia, Serbia, southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro.

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