aljazeera.com reported a large slice of Western Europe looks set to experience heatwave conditions in the coming days. Temperatures from Portugal to Poland are expected to reach the 30C mark.
A large area of high pressure is becoming established across much of the region. Weather fronts, and the attendant cool Atlantic breezes, are being increasingly confined to northwestern parts of the UK. [So if you are reading this in Edinburgh or Glasgow, sorry, you will probably see temperatures no higher than 16C in the coming days.]
The warmer air is coming from the south or southeast, meaning that very warm air from the Mediterranean and Africa is making northward progress. Read Article
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rt.com reported an alert about Londoners’ sexual health has been sounded as new figures show five times more people were diagnosed with syphilis in London last year than in any other region in England. The report, published Wednesday by Public Health England, says the number of cases have more than doubled in the capital in […]
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dailymail.co.uk reported can this summer get any worse in France? Four-day Eurostar strike adds to tourist woes after wildfires, strikes, football violence and terror attacks Eurostar workers in Britain have gone on strike for four days It comes as France struggles to get to grips with wildfires near Marseille The fires came in the wake […]
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enews.earthlink.net/AP reported British border agents moved in Sunday to help French officials ease the gigantic backups for travelers trying to cross the English Channel into France. By Sunday afternoon, police said the backlog that saw some motorists waiting up to 10 hours or more had eased but that delays and disruptions can be expected on […]
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BBC.com reported German police are engaged in a huge anti-terror manhunt in the city of Munich after six people died in a shopping mall shooting. Police confirmed six deaths at the Olympia mall and several wounded. The attackers are still on the run. Witnesses said they had seen three with guns. Police urged people to […]
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‘The worst catastrophe our region has seen’ theguardian.com/ Jessica Reed reported Minutes ago the president of the Nice region, Christian Estrosi, held a press conference. He said: This is the worst catastrophe our region has seen in modern history. We now have to mobilise all of our services, all the psychologists, volunteers who are trained […]
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telegraph.co.uk reported a German man has been sentenced to eleven years and seven months in jail for the murder of a British expat in Berlin, in a killing widely believed to have been motivated by xenophobia. The parents of Luke Holland looked on as their son’s killer was sentenced in a Berlin court room on […]
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telegraph.co.uk reported at least 27 people were killed and dozens more injured on Tuesday when two trains crashed in a head-on collision in the southern Italian region of Puglia, writes Josephine McKenna in Rome. The two trains collided on a stretch of isolated track surrounded by olive trees around 11.30 a.m. between the towns of […]
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telegraph.co.uk reported Italian prosecutors have launched a murder investigation into the death of an American university student whose blood-stained body was found floating in Rome’s Tiber river on Monday. Beau Solomon, 19, a finance student from Spring Green in Wisconsin, had just arrived in Rome for a five-week summer course at John Cabot University, a […]
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nydailynews.com reported Disneyland Paris guards stopped a gunman carrying two weapons and a copy of the Koran inside the park’s hotel, local media reported.The man was arrested after hotel security spotted him with a pair of low-caliber handguns, a box of ammo and the religious text. Read Article
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