By Kate Holton and William James LONDON (Reuters) -Firefighters worked overnight to damp down wildfires and engineers raced on Wednesday to fix train tracks that had buckled on Britain’s hottest day, triggering warnings that efforts to tackle climate change needed to be stepped up. The London Fire Brigade endured its busiest day since World War …
By Alasdair Pal COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s imposing presidential secretariat which was stormed by a sea of protesters in early July, forcing out then incumbent Gotabaya Rajapaksa, was almost deserted on Wednesday as his replacement was voted in. Parliament’s selection of Ranil Wickremesinghe, a six-time prime minister, as Sri Lanka’s next president was a …
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MILAN (Reuters) – Fire brigades in Tuscany battled a wildfire on Wednesday that forced hundreds to evacuate and caused gas tanks to explode, as smoke from a blaze in northeast Italy forced shipbuilder Fincantieri to shut down a 3,000-staff plant. Wildfires have broken out in several parts of Italy this week as temperatures keep rising. …
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By Renee Maltezou ATHENS/LONDON (Reuters) – A wildfire fuelled by gale-force winds raged in mountains near Athens on Wednesday, forcing hundreds including hospital patients to evacuate, as Britain counted the cost of its hottest ever day. Wildfires have ravaged Europe this month, breaking out in Greece, France, Spain, Turkey, Italy and Portugal and fuelled by …
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PRAGUE (Reuters) – As a heat wave rolls over Europe, bringing temperatures as high as 33 Celsius (91 Fahrenheit) in Prague on Tuesday, the ICE PUB in downtown Prague offers a brief escape to Arctic conditions. The bar, just a minute’s walk from the capital’s renowned Charles Bridge, serves vodka-based cocktails in cups made of …
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By Kate Holton and Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) -Britain was braced for temperatures to hit 40C for the first time this week, with ministers urging the public to stay at home as the heatwave caused train services to be cancelled, one London airport to shut its runway and some schools to close. Much of Europe …
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By Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin met Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran on Tuesday, stressing closer ties in the face of Western pressure over the war in Ukraine, where Russian forces struck more targets across the country. During his Iran visit Putin also met Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan …
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By Kate Holton and Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) -Britain recorded its hottest day ever on Tuesday, with the temperature exceeding 40C (104F) as a heatwave gripping Europe intensified, forcing train tracks to buckle and fuelling a spate of fires across London. The Met Office said a new provisional record temperature of 40.3C (104.5F) was recorded …
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By Kylie MacLellan and Dominique Vidalon LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) – Firefighters in southwestern France battled on Tuesday to contain massive forest wildfires and Britain recorded its highest ever temperature, while Portugal reported more than 1,000 heatwave-related deaths as Europe scorches. Southern and western Germany and Belgium were also braced for potentially record-breaking temperatures as the heatwave, …
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By Guy Faulconbridge and Parisa Hafezi LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin had talks with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran on Tuesday, the Kremlin leader’s first trip outside the former Soviet Union since Moscow’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. In Tehran, Putin also held his first face-to-face meeting since the invasion with a …
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