France expecting peak temperatures as heatwave hits Europe
PARIS - Paris was on red alert for high temperatures on Tuesday, with the top of the Eiffel Tower shut, polluting traffic banned and speed restrictions in place as a searing heatwave gripped Europe.

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Twenty bodies, some headless, found in Mexican cartel bastion
CULIACAN, Mexico - The bodies of 20 people, several of them decapitated, were found on a highway bridge in a part of Mexico where factions of the Sinaloa drug cartel are fighting each other, authorities said on Monday.

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Southern Europe roasts as temperatures soar
ROME - Spain and Portugal reported record temperatures Monday as Italy and France braced for several more days of a punishing heatwave that has gripped southern Europe and Britain, sparking health and wildfire warnings.

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UN chief urges aid surge in world of 'climate chaos, raging conflicts'
SEVILLE (SPAIN) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the world to "rev up the engine of development" at an aid conference in Spain on Monday at a time when US-led cuts are jeopardising the fight against poverty and climate change.

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NGO loses bid to block UK export of military equipment to Israel
LONDON - The High Court in London rejected a legal challenge on Monday brought by a Palestinian rights group seeking to block the UK from supplying components for Israeli F-35 fighter jets.

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Jury retires to decide verdict in Australia's mushroom murder trial
MORWELL (AUSTRALIA) - Jury members retired Monday to decide the fate of an Australian woman accused of murdering three members of her husband's family with a toxic mushroom-laced beef Wellington lunch.

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