Hungary heatwave kills hundreds
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About 500 people died in the past week from a heatwave in Hungary, a top health official says.
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Around 25 people are feared dead after a fire ripped through a home for disabled people in the town of Alsunga in western Latvia overnight, officials said Friday.
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Wildfires swept through Greece Thursday, killing two people and destroying homes after days of record high temperatures that led to at least nine heatstroke deaths and extensive power cuts.
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Severe weather in several parts of China has killed more than 100 people in the past week, state media say.
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Southeastern Europe baked under soaring temperatures Friday, with nearly 30 deaths across the region blamed on the year's first major heat wave. Electricity supplies, particularly in Greece and Albania, were strained as air conditioning use spiked.
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Human activity has at least doubled the risk of heat waves like the one in 2003 that killed thousands in Europe, researchers conclude in a study being published today in the scientific journal Nature.
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An eight-day heat wave killed as many as 28 people in Southern California before the temperatures finally began to ebb, coroners in four counties said Wednesday.
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Wildfires burned homes Thursday and forced the evacuations of villages, a convent and a children's camp in southern Greece, as a heat wave swept across southeastern Europe.
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Dozens of people across southern Europe have perished in a blistering heatwave while storms whipped the north of the continent and floods claimed four lives in Britain, officials said Wednesday.
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Five people were killed, more than 1,000 homes were flooded and almost 200,000 others left without power as violent storms swept through northern Europe, bringing hurricane force winds and violent rain.
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"The next few hours will be critical"  Forest fires whipped by gale-force winds killed at least 15 people in southern Greece Friday, including at least nine people trapped in their cars as the flames approached.Across the country, more than 150 fires were burning, and the government appealed to the European Union to 'send any help they can,' acting Interior Minister Spyros Flogaitis said after an emergency meeting of Greece's civil protection department.Hot, dry winds gusting to gale force prevented firefighting planes from taking off, leaving only ground forces to fight the flames in the southern Peloponnese, with occasional help from helicopters and residents using their garden hoses. A three-day heat wave, with temperatures up to 104 degrees, has left forests and scrubland parched on the peninsula linked to the Greek mainland by a narrow isthmus. Read more
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Hurricanes don't happen in Hungary. They usually don't happen here, either. At least, that's what Robert Szoke, Gregely Horvath and Renata Gorog thought when they made plans to spend their university vacations ...
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Torrential downpours around Britain left three dead and hundreds stranded on Monday as storms continued to batter Russia and a heatwave in southern Europe led to further deaths and sparked fires.
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A firefighter died and more than a dozen houses in two states were razed by wildfires that flared across south-eastern Australia yesterday as high temperatures and blustery winds whipped up massive firestorms.
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Forest fires sweeping Greece  have killed 41 people in two days and more are feared dead with  some villages still trapped by flames on Saturday in what the  government has called a national tragedy.
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At least three people die and many are hurt as a storm wreaks havoc at a firework display in Budapest.
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Dozens of people burned to death as violence rages across west of the country