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Amid heat wave India’s Odisha reports first sunstroke death

NEW DELHI, India | Xinhua | Amid the prevailing heat wave India’s eastern state of Odisha has recorded a death due to sunstroke and 71 cases of heat-related illness, officials said Saturday. According to local health officials, a 62-year-old man died from sunstroke in the state’s Balasore district on Friday. …

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Heat wave hits Iraq — and sparks begin to fly

Nasiriyah, Iraq | AFP |  Hospital ventilators shut down, football matches with obligatory water breaks and food spoiling in fridges without power: Iraq’s notorious summer has arrived. As one of the hottest countries in the world with around half of its terrain covered in desert, Iraq is no stranger to …

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