Much of central and eastern Europe is in the grip of a heatwave, with several countries breaking record temperatures, that may persist for at least another week to ten days.
Third degree heat alert - the highest level - is issued for the entire territory of Hungary.
The heat has been a problem for the fourth time this year.
The temperature and power consumption is breaking all records.
Poland reached a new high yesterday when the mercury tipped 38 degrees Celsius, with some rivers reported almost dried up around Warsaw.
Electricity supplies were cut to homes and businesses just when it was needed the most.
The Czech Republic recorded a new high of 40 degree Celsius near Prague.
Portugal and Spain reached 40 degree Celsius with wildfires out of control devastating the countryside
A scorching heatwave gripped Egypt this week, killing at least 42 people, including a German resident, patients in a psychiatric hospital and detainees, officials said Tuesday.
Egyptian summers are usually hot, but this week's temperatures in the south soared to 44 degrees Celsius (111 degrees Fahrenheit).
The Health Ministry said 21 people died from the heat on Sunday, when temperatures topped 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in the country's north.
Nineteen more died on Monday, authorities said, mostly elderly citizens.
A German national living in the southern city of Luxor died on Tuesday from heatstroke, according to security official Essam el-Desouki. Egypt's official MENA news agency said he was in his sixties. A 62-year old Egyptian in the southern city of Assiut also died Tuesday, health official Ahmed Anwar said.
Most of the fatalities - at least 26 - were in Cairo, a crowded, sprawling city of at least 18 million. Three patients at a psychiatric hospital north of Cairo were also among the dead.
Three detainees in a jail north of Cairo died because of the heat, said a security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.
Egyptian prisons and detention facilities are notoriously overcrowded.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters. Compounding the woes from the heatwave was a widespread power outage Tuesday in several Cairo neighbourhood's that lasted a few hours and briefly brought the city's subway to a halt.
The Ministry of Electricity blamed the outage on increased consumption that briefly knocked out a power transformer in western Cairo.
In rural and southern Egypt, power cuts are usual








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