Europe's deadly heat wave scorches east, Slovakia hits record
Europe's most severe heat wave on record set new temperature records in eastern parts of the continent Monday and forced Ukraine to order power cuts to cope.
The scorching heat, which first smothered western Europe, has already set records in Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany as it moved east in recent days.
Slovakia on Monday registered a new record temperature of 41 degrees Celsius in Turna nad Bodvou in the southeast, the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute said.
The mercury reached 41.
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