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January temperature records smashed across Europe
Across large parts of Europe, from Latvia to the Netherlands, temperatures have hit new records for the time of year.
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Soaring temperatures and wildfires – Europe battles a ‘heat apocalypse’
In parts of France forecasters are calling it a “heat apocalypse”, with thousands of people forced to flee spreading wildfires in the country’s southwest.
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By-election results ‘appalling’ for Tories, says former international development secretary
Boris Johnson will be going straight from the Commonwealth meeting in Kigali to a G7 summit in Germany, then to meet Nato leaders in Spain.
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Calls for investigation into deaths at crossing into Spanish enclave Melilla
Human rights groups in Morocco and Spain have called for an investigation after up to 27 people died when a crowd tried to scale the border fence to get into the Spanish enclave of Melilla.
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Heatwaves and wildfires: Europe sweltering after record heat
Climate scientists say the early heatwaves across parts of France, Spain and the UK over the past few days are a sign of things to come.
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Pedro Almodovar on the Spanish Civil War’s ‘disappeared’
The director Pedro Almodóvar made his name decades ago for daring, jubilant movies that caught on film the heady freedoms of the post-Franco era in Spain.
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Spanish families want Franco’s victims reburied with dignity
In Spain, 100,000 men, women and children went missing, presumed killed, during the dictator Francisco Franco’s reign of terror.
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FactCheck: Javid’s misleading claim about UK’s refugee policy
The UK is far from the most generous country overall.
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This is what a year of climate disasters looked like
From -25C temperatures in Spain to a record-equalling 54.4C in Death Valley, the extremes of our climate are becoming more acute.
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Canary Islands volcano: rivers of lava reach sea
Ten days after the first eruptions on the Spanish island of La Palma, rivers of lava from the Cumbre Vieja volcano have now reached the sea, sending plumes of steam into the sky and reshaping the coastline.
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High wholesale gas prices ‘will feed through ultimately to customers’ bills’, Ofgem CEO says
We spoke to Jonathan Brearley, chief executive of Ofgem, the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets, and we asked if the energy market had allowed in too many unsustainable businesses which didn’t know what they were doing.
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FactCheck Q&A: vaccinating healthy 12 to 15-year-olds against Covid
Millions of youngsters have already had the jab in other countries.
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FactCheck: What’s behind the vaccination slowdown?
The UK has some of the highest Covid-19 vaccination rates in the world. But the rate has slowed in recent months. Why?
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Indonesia’s Covid crisis: Record case numbers leave healthcare system near collapse
This report is from Indonesia, which the International Red Cross says is “on the edge of catastrophe” as its health system is inundated by another wave of the disease.
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No quarantine for fully vaccinated people returning from amber list countries to England
Adults who have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus and children will not have to quarantine on their return from amber list countries to England from 19 July.