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An estimated 5,120 people have died from heatwave-related causes in Germany so far this year, the country’s public health agency, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) said in its weekly report published Thursday. According to the report, most of the deaths occurred in late June, when the average weekly temperature was well above 20 degrees Celsius. The RKI said that about 4,270 of the total deaths were among people aged 75 or older. It also said more women than men died because women make up a larger...

An unprecedented and intense heatwave is gripping France and much of Western Europe, with extreme temperatures now spreading eastward across the continent. More than half of France was placed under the highest-level weather warning, a red alert, on Wednesday as authorities struggled to cope wit...