5300 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-uk-heatwave-met-heat-warning/The highest temperature ever recorded in the U.K. was 38.7 on July 25, 2019, in Cambridge. Several schools closed on Monday and train services across the country faced cancellations and delays after Network Rail warned that the heat wave could cause tracks to bend or buckle.2022-07-18T18:21+0200theglobeandmail-9b19fbb2720ea4f7db17def32aaf0b4f20220718182100https://www.telegraphindia.com/world/wildfires-and-heat-wave-sweep-across-europe/cid/1875150Crews in the south of France were battling wildfires on Saturday that had consumed more than 22,000 acres and prompted the evacuation of 12,000 people, the local authorities said. The wildfires are among dozens across Europe, driven by a heat wave that has gripped parts of the continent and....2022-07-17T23:14+0200newsnow-co-uk-1ac28d8e7818aca50f8d3d511d57370d20220717231400https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/16/world/wildfires-heat-wave-sweep-across-europe/“We are going through an exceptionally harsh season,” President Emmanuel Macron said Friday in Paris. “We already have three times more burned forests than in 2020.” Firefighters have also been battling dozens of blazes in Greece, Portugal and Spain, which has faced unusually high temperatures.2022-07-16T20:45+0200bostonglobe-4feaaf65a367ff8525e5d39f0f7fba6f20220716204500https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2022-07-15-fires-multiply-in-southern-europe--crushed-by-a-heat-wave.HJzqq5Rj5.htmlSince Tuesday July 12, a fire has ravaged the forest of La-Teste-de-Buch, in Gironde in the south-west of France. PA. Text by: RFI Follow. 4 mins. From Portugal to Greece, via France, Spain and Morocco, fires are raging on Friday July 15 in southern Europe, struck down by a suffocating heat wave,....2022-07-15T09:45+0200tellerreport-4601b8e1054fa2f0ff0b41349942621920220715094500