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With summer vacation fast approaching, many people are planning to head out into the sun. But with temperatures well above forty degrees, southern Europe is no longer what it used to be. This is difficult for many vacationers around the Mediterranean Sea. And for the people who live there. Temperatures of nearly 50 degrees are approaching in Sicily. “It’s very …

14 jul 2023 om 05:00Update: een uur geleden A new world heat record is in the air. This will almost certainly happen in 2024. And there is a growing chance that 2023 will also be record high. This is what American climatologists tell NU.nl, based on the latest temperature measurements. Halfway through the year, the two largest American climate institutes …

Many Dutch say they are much less affected by the heat when on holiday in southern Europe than when they are at home. Can the heat of southern Europe really be less hot? Two experts explain. Luchtvochtigheid is het sleutelwoord, legt meteoroloog Raymond Klaassen van weerbureau Weerplaza uit. “In het zuiden van Europa is de warmte vaak droger. Dat komt …

Russian Major General Ivan Popov claims to have been relieved of his command after informing the army command of the situation at the front. “The Ukrainian army could not break through our lines at the front, but our supreme leader struck us from behind, treacherously decapitating the army at the most inopportune moment,” Popov said in an audio message to …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for a $3 billion loan to Pakistan after months of talks. The loan was already announced at the end of June. The aid is intended to support immediate efforts to stabilize the economy while creating room for social and development spending to help the people of Pakistan, the IMF said. …

Vermont residents have been kayaking through swirling waterways that have taken over the streets in recent days. Extreme rainfall in a short time has caused severe flooding in the northeastern US state. More than a hundred people had to be rescued and thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed, according to The Washington Post. Only panic really set in when …

In Southern Europe, it is currently raining only one thing: red numbers. The Spanish meteorological service announced code red in part of the country after several heat waves. In Italy, the mercury is currently rising towards the old heat record: 48 degrees Celsius. Temperatures are also increasingly extreme in the rest of Europe. Where you used to look for a …

A man has been sentenced to nine years in prison in the United States for raping an inmate while in transit. Rogeric Hankins, 37, assaulted the woman during a layover in a parking lot in Missouri. In March 2020, according to prosecutors, Hankins was hired to transport the woman, who was in pretrial detention, from a prison in Olympia, Washington, …

July 11, 2023 – 7:00 p.m. – Moroccans living abroad © Moroccans residing abroad call on Morocco to suspend the multilateral agreement on the automatic exchange of information on financial accounts. The Moroccan diaspora asks to consult the parliamentary groups on draft law n°77.19, which will enshrine in Moroccan law this requirement of the agreement signed by Morocco on June …

Door Robbert van der Linde 11 jul 2023 om 13:12Update: 2 uur geleden Italy is currently experiencing an exceptionally hot and above all long heat wave. Other parts of southern Europe also suffer from very high temperatures. But in the Netherlands we don’t notice much of that at the moment. “It is really excessively hot in Italy,” Weerplaza meteorologist Jeroen …