For UNICEF, the climate-related danger to infant health is intensifying, as “they affect food and water safety and contamination, damage infrastructure and cause displacement”.

 Despite the absence of an official pronouncement it is speculated that the deaths are the product of the heat wave that hits the entire Balkan country.

More than 900 Muslim worshippers have died during the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, known as Hajj, due to temperatures that have reached 52 degrees. RELATED: Egypt: Search for Missing Egyptian Pilgrims in Saudi Arabia Continues Egypt continues to be the most affected country with at least 325 pilgrims killed, mostly by heat […]

The measurement was made with a thermal camera that uses infrared, in public places of Rome.

The Acropolis of Athens will also be closed between 12h00 and 17h00 (local time).

In the last 72 hours alone, authorities have reported eight deaths caused by high temperatures.

On Saturday, South Sudan announced an indefinite closure of all schools as a result of heatwaves over the past few days with very high temperatures both during the day and night. RELATED: Sudanese Army Says Will Be a Transition Period After War End Yolanda Awel Deng, minister for Health, said most parts of South Sudan […]