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Austria records all-time temperature high of 40.8C: weather service
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Austria set a new temperature record on Tuesday with 40.8C measured in Vienna, the national weather agency said.
Iceland says to rule on anti-whaling activists' expulsion this week
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Icelandic authorities will likely decide this week whether to expel 21 anti-whaling activists held in Reykjavik since last week after their ship was seized whil...
Suspected heatstroke kills three lions at Japan zoo
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Three lions at a Tokyo zoo have died from suspected heatstroke and others are under treatment, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday, with the big cats struggling with ...
Heat kills 16 in South Korea this summer: interior ministry
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
South Korea's summer heat has killed 16 people so far this year, the interior ministry said Tuesday, as the nation swelters in a wave of searing weather.
Greece arrests Italian boat crew for harvesting coral
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Authorities in Greece have arrested the crew of an Italian leisure boat in possession of illegally harvested coral worth nearly a million euros, media and the g...
Heat kills 19 in South Korea this summer: government agency
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
South Korea's summer heat has killed 19 people so far this year, a government health agency said on Tuesday, as the nation swelters in a wave of searing weather...
Hundreds flee homes after Guatemala's Fuego volcano erupts
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Hundreds of people living on the slopes of Guatemala's Fuego volcano evacuated their homes Tuesday after a huge eruption spewed lava and plumes of ash.
California utility blamed for deadly 2025 Los Angeles fire
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
One of the deadly 2025 fires that ravaged Los Angeles was caused when sparks from an idle transmission tower owned by a local power company ignited dry vegetati...
Hundreds flee homes after Guatemala's Fuego volcano erupts
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Hundreds of people living on the slopes of Guatemala's Fuego volcano evacuated their homes Tuesday after a huge eruption spewed lava and plumes of ash.
Austria records all-time temperature high of 41C
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Austria set a new temperature record on Tuesday with 41C measured in Vienna, the national weather agency said.
Suspected heatstroke kills three lions at Japan zoo
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Three lions from a Tokyo zoo have died from suspected heatstroke and others are under treatment, a spokeswoman said Tuesday, with the big cats struggling with h...
Guatemala issues 'danger' alert after Fuego volcano erupts
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Guatemalan authorities issued the country's second-highest emergency alert level on Monday after a major eruption of Central America's most active volcano, prom...
Guatemala issues 'danger' alert after Fuego volcano erupts
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Guatemalan authorities issued on Monday the country's second-highest emergency alert level after a major eruption of Central America's most active volcano.
Forest fire spreads in Dutch nature reserve for second day
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Hundreds of Dutch firefighters were fighting Tuesday afternoon to contain a forest blaze in the southeast of the Netherlands that spread overnight to engulf 100...
WWII shells surface in wildfire-ravaged French village
Aug 03, 2026 (AFP)
A huge forest fire near Bordeaux in southwestern France has revealed World War II shells in the village of Le Porge, where all residents returned to their homes...
England, Wales had driest July on record: Met Office
Aug 03, 2026 (AFP)
England and Wales both experienced the "driest July on record", the UK Met Office weather agency said Monday, based on provisional figures.
England, Wales had driest July on record: Met Office
Aug 03, 2026 (AFP)
England and Wales both experienced the "driest July on record", the UK Met Office weather agency said Monday, based on provisional figures.
Ukrainian firefighters join battle against France fire in first
Aug 03, 2026 (AFP)
After a 52-hour drive, Ukrainian firefighters on Monday joined operations to fully extinguish the wildfire that devastated the Gironde region in southwestern Fr...
Last Scottish island bird hunt banned after almost 500 years
Aug 03, 2026 (AFP)
A centuries-old annual bird chick hunt on a remote Scottish island, known as the Guga Hunt, has been banned this year, the authorities said Monday, citing conse...
What Europe can learn from Australia's 'Black Summer' wildfires
Aug 03, 2026 (AFP)
Australians who faced a "Black Summer" blaze that scorched millions of hectares say they may have lessons for European countries hit by some of the fiercest fir...
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