Summer storms lash Europe, deaths in France
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Freak storms packing howling winds and heavy rain that lashed Britain and France this week were set to continue after already causing significant destruction and the deaths of at least four people.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey  - Heavy storms, landslides, flash floods and lightning have killed at least 23 people in Europe and Turkey, officials said on Monday.
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Ten die as hurricane-strength winds and fierce rains batter Sweden, Denmark and the north of England.
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Breaking news in recent years has been swamped with stories of extreme weather -- flash floods in East Asia, prolonged drought in Africa, destructive hurricanes like Hurricane Katrina, heavy monsoon rainfall in South Asia, and an historic heat wave in Europe.
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A heat wave has killed 64 people in France, a top health official said Thursday. The scorching temperatures, which have lasted about two weeks and prompted a nationwide heat-relief plan, have recalled memories of a 2003 heat wave in which 15,000 people, mostly elderly, died.
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A storm with hurricane-strength winds swept across parts of Scandinavia on Saturday, leaving at least three people dead in Denmark and two killed in Sweden, police said.
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A violent rainstorm swept across Denmark, south Sweden and Norway on Saturday afternoon, causing seven deaths and over 200,000 families in blackout.
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A fierce storm packing winds of up to 125 mph battered Scotland and Northern Ireland, killing three people and leaving tens of thousands without electricity, police and emergency services said Wednesday.
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A powerful storm packing hurricane-force winds lashed northern France on Friday, killing at least six people &#151; some crushed by falling trees &#151; and forcing officials to close the Eiffel Tower and the famed Paris parks.
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Southern Europe sizzled under a heat wave Tuesday, with temperatures hitting triple digits for a seventh day in Romania, blazes forcing the evacuation of tourists in Croatia and Italy, and wildfires in Macedonia and Greece exploding shells from long-ago wars. At least 35 heat-related deaths were reported.
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Up to 500 people are estimated to have  died across Hungary last week, partly due to a heatwave  gripping central and southeast Europe, Hungarian medical  officials said on Tuesday.
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SIX people died Friday when hurricane-strength winds lashed Paris and large areas of northern and eastern France, cutting power to hundreds of thousands of homes and disrupting air, rail and road traffic.
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Forest fires ravaged swathes of southern Europe Friday with a multitude of blazes killing at least 15 people in Greece, while an 80-year-old man died in Sicily and hundreds were evacuated from their homes.
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PARIS  - A powerful storm lashed Paris and large areas of northern and eastern France on Friday killing six people, and forcing officials to close the Eiffel Tower.
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A storm with hurricane-strength winds has swept across northern Europe, leaving at least four dead in Denmark and three killed in Sweden, police said.
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PARIS  - Paris took the exceptional step Wednesday of shutting all of the city's parks and its popular temporary beach along the rising Seine River as violent storms hit France.
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Families throughout Europe are spending anxious hours desperate for news of loved ones after giant waves slammed into some of Asia's most popular resorts at peak season, killing thousands of people.