BALKANS:  Hot Summer Takes Its Toll
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BELGRADE, Sep 20 (IPS) - As rain falls and autumn approaches, countries  across the Balkans are taking stock of the damage caused by one  of the hottest summers in recent times, with temperatures in the  40s since mid-June until the beginning of September.
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POSTOJNA, Slovenia  - Elka Strojan and her 30-strong Roma Gypsy family, forced to swap a house for three rooms in a former army barracks, highlight the precarious existence in the Balkans of Europe's largest minority.
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Rising sea levels, disappearing glaciers in the Alps and more deadly heat waves are coming for Europeans because of global warming, Europe's environmental agency warned Wednesday.
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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.
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Hundreds of tourists from Europe and Scandinavia are among the missing and dead in southern Asia.
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By Mike Archbold, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  May 30--A forecast of hot weather this week and two cold river drowning deaths over Memorial Day weekend are a cautionary tale for swimmers and boaters.
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The heatwave which killed thousands in Europe in 2003 could soon seem cool, UK climate scientists say.
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Two Austrians and a German were fined  for cycling naked along the banks of the River Danube in Serbia  where a heatwave has sent temperatures soaring.
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Several people have died and crops have been damaged as temperatures fall to unusual  lows across the Middle East.
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Celebration over independence in the Kosovar capital of Pristina is matched by anger and gloom in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. But so far, the Balkans remain relatively calm
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Tourists bored with bungee jumping and other extreme holidays may soon be able to get their teeth into another challenge: a couple of weeks in a former communist detention camp in Croatia with hard labour ...
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Global warming caused by human activity has more than doubled the risk of summers as hot as in 2003, when thousands of people in Europe died of heat-related causes, according to a UK study published in the journal Nature.
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Families throughout Europe are spending anxious hours desperate for news of loved ones after giant waves slammed into some of the world's most popular south Asian resorts at peak season, killing thousands of ...
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Power blackouts hit 13 locations in Athens and 95 fires were reported across Greece on Wednesday amid a heat wave that has killed dozens of people in southeast Europe over the past week.
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Record temperatures in Greece spark more than 100 forest fires as a heatwave scorches south-east Europe.
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Forty people have died in a heat wave that has gripped France for nearly two weeks, health officials said Tuesday.
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As Serbia is criticised over fugitive war crimes suspects, BBC's Gabriel Partos examines the impact on the Balkans.