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Europe's heat claims 50,000 lives. Climate change blamed for two-thirds of deaths
Blistering record heat in Europe this summer helped kill more than 50,000 people, with nearly two-thirds of that death toll blamed on human-caused climate change, a new study found.
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Severe flooding in eastern Spain, while UK hit by first named storm of winter
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Nigeria and Kenya Ebola patients may have crossed paths at Uganda airport, officials say
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Harry Kane hopes Ballon d’Or produces ‘special night’ in hometown
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