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“The 40°C threshold will be exceeded from Wednesday in the Alentejo districts, with the high temperatures then spreading to parts of the remaining regions towards the end of the week, meteorologists warn.”
“In inland Alentejo, daytime highs will remain above 40°C from 1 to at least 7 July.”
“Over this period, eight districts are expected to reach or exceed 40°C: Braga, Coimbra, Castelo Branco, Santarém, Lisbon, Portalegre, Évora and Beja.”
“the coast is also expected to be hit by the high temperatures, especially from Wednesday, with highs between 35°C and 38°C.”
“Minimum temperatures will range between 12°C and 17°C at the beginning of the week”
“rising above 20°C in inland areas from Tuesday and in other regions from Thursday.”
“the IPMA has issued yellow alerts for the districts of Guarda, Castelo Branco, Portalegre, Évora and Beja from this Monday.”
“On Tuesday these alerts will be extended to Bragança and Vila Real, and will apply to the remaining mainland districts from Wednesday.”
“average temperature is expected to run 3°C to 7°C above normal across mainland Portugal”
“increases of 5°C to 7°C in central regions and the Alentejo”
“The 40°C threshold will be exceeded from Wednesday in the Alentejo districts”
“daytime highs will remain above 40°C from 1 to at least 7 July”
“Over this period, eight districts are expected to reach or exceed 40°C: Braga, Coimbra, Castelo Branco, Santarém, Lisbon, Portalegre, Évora and Beja”
“highs between 35°C and 38°C”
“Minimum temperatures will range between 12°C and 17°C at the beginning of the week, rising above 20°C in inland areas from Tuesday and in other regions from Thursday”
“yellow alerts for the districts of Guarda, Castelo Branco, Portalegre, Évora and Beja from this Monday”
“On Tuesday these alerts will be extended to Bragança and Vila Real, and will apply to the remaining mainland districts from Wednesday”
“it is highly likely that the alert level will be raised in several districts in updates over the coming days”
“The start of July will bring a prolonged heatwave to mainland Portugal, with tropical nights and temperatures soaring to 43°C in some regions of the country.”
“Unlike the heat episode at the end of May, the coast is also expected to be hit by the high temperatures, especially from Wednesday, with highs between 35°C and 38°C.”
“Minimum temperatures will range between 12°C and 17°C at the beginning of the week, rising above 20°C in inland areas from Tuesday and in other regions from Thursday.”
“Because of the "long duration of this hot spell", the IPMA warns, "it is highly likely that the alert level will be raised in several districts in updates over the coming days".”
“Brooks, who turned 100 on Sunday 28 June, is the only filmmaker with three films in the Top 15”
“The American Film Institute (AFI) has officially changed the order of their famous 100 Best Comedies of All Time list and named Brooks’ 1974 Western spoof Blazing Saddles are “the funniest film of all time”. The “honorary” recognition for …”
“Brooks, who turned 100 on Sunday 28 June, is the only filmmaker with three films in the Top 15: The Producers (1968) is Number 11 and Young Frankenstein (1974) is Number 13.”
“Blazing Saddles was previously selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2006”
“Spaceballs: The New One is coming out next year.”
“Some 774 buildings were badly damaged in back-to-back quakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 that struck on Wednesday evening, including 189 buildings that have totally collapsed, National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez said Sunday.”
“On Sunday, Rodríguez reported 1,450 dead, a toll expected to rise, with 3,150 people injured.”
“Twenty-four nations have sent 521 tonnes of supplies, 86 units with dogs trained to locate people trapped beneath the rubble and more than 2,700 search-and-rescue personnel, she said.”
“The UN migration agency said that based on population and damage data, up to 6.76 million people could be affected, and would require shelter, water, sanitation, healthcare and essential relief items.”
“death toll has surpassed 1,450”
“nearly 200 buildings have completely collapsed”
“about 40 kilometres north of Caracas”
“critical 72-hour window for rescuing trapped victims following a natural disaster has now passed”
“Some 774 buildings were badly damaged”
“including 189 buildings that have totally collapsed”
“1,450 dead, a toll expected to rise, with 3,150 people injured”
“250-strong disaster response team”
“Twenty-four nations have sent 521 tonnes of supplies, 86 units with dogs trained to locate people trapped beneath the rubble and more than 2,700 search-and-rescue personnel”
“up to 6.76 million people could be affected”
“United Nations estimated $6.7 billion (€5.8 billion) in physical damage, equivalent to 6% of Venezuela's GDP”
“the death toll has surpassed 1,450”
“Some 774 buildings were badly damaged in back-to-back quakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5”
“including 189 buildings that have totally collapsed, National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez said Sunday.”
“had already sent a 250-strong disaster response team”
“up to 6.76 million people could be affected, and would require shelter, water, sanitation, healthcare and essential relief items.”
“According to regional Governor Veniamin Kondratyev, the falling debris killed one person in Sloviansk and wounded another in a nearby village”
“Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskyy has claimed that another Russian refinery, in the Yaroslavl region around 700 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, was also hit during the nighttime strikes.”
“According to Putin, Kyiv also offered a framework to limit the active fighting exclusively to the four Ukrainian regions that Russia unilaterally annexed in 2022 but has never fully captured, namely Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzh…”
““Our ‘long-range sanctions’ reached two oil refineries in Russia,” Zelenskyy wrote on the Telegram messaging app on Sunday.”
“the falling debris killed one person in Sloviansk and wounded another in a nearby village, in eastern occupied Crimea”
“the falling debris killed one person in Sloviansk and wounded another in a nearby village”
“Processing close to 4 million tons of crude per year”
“reached two oil refineries in Russia”
“between 27 July and 2 August 2026”
“a week’s car rental and campsite fees are just €363 in total. ... an SUV costing as little as €143 for a week. The average campsite price came to €220”
“average cost of just €398 for a week-long campsite stay, including car rental fees. Campsite fees average €149 – the second most affordable in the ranking – and car rental prices are relatively low too, at an average of €249.”
“a week’s trip will set you back €445. ... the country has the fourth least expensive campsite costs at €187, and car rental costs came to €258, ... It’s typically billed per kWh, which is about €0.80 to 0.85, and warm-water showers cost ar…”
“The average cost for a week’s pitch and car hire is €504. While the average campsite cost was €272 – technically the second most expensive in the research – it’s much lower than the destination with the highest cost, the Netherlands. Car r…”
“average total cost of a basic campsite and car rental fees for the week is €552, with campsite fees coming to €200 and the car rental prices at around €352.”
“average cost of €1,021. The country had by far the highest average campsite fees at €511, while car rental costs averaged €510.”
“average total cost of €958. While campsite fees were relatively moderate at €246, the country had the highest car rental costs of any destination analysed, averaging €712 for a week.”
“Norway took third place, with families facing average costs of €776. The Scandinavian destination had some of the highest campsite and car hire prices in the study, at €267 and €509 respectively.”
“Finland was fourth, with a total average cost of €637. Although campsite fees were among the lowest surveyed at €152, higher car rental costs of €485 pushed up the overall price.”
“France, where a family camping holiday costs an average of €629. Despite having the cheapest campsite fees in the study at just €142, relatively high car rental prices of €487 made it one of Europe's pricier camping destinations overall.”
“the company found it to be the easiest country in all of Europe to drive in.”
“Since its establishment in 2011, Verena Ross has held senior leadership roles at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), serving first as Executive Director before becoming Chair in 2021.”
“As Ross prepares to step down as Chair in October 2026, Angela Barnes sat down with her for The Big Question...”
“We still have, as you say, more often 27 national markets than really a single European capital market,” Verena explained.”
“It's more the fact that in America, because you don't have state guaranteed pay-as-you-go pension schemes, anyone who works and who needs to think about his old age needs to directly be engaged in thinking about investing in capital market…”
“around 40,000 metres of footage”
“the institution’s longstanding head from 1989 to 2016”
“the original script, which runs to 2,000 pages”
“some 70,000 metres of film”
“no fewer than three Shakespeares”
“It was in 1957 that Welles set about bringing Don Quixote to the big screen”
“which took almost two decades to come together”
“with eight abortive production attempts”
“on its release in 2018”
“He stretched his vision ... over three decades”
“When asked in 1960 in which Spanish town he would like to live”
“retrieved some 50,000 metres of negative in 2017”
“around 80 minutes of 35 mm positives”
“Pakistan's Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said. Pakistan said the operations were launched in response to multiple militant attacks across Pakistan. Pakistani security forces carried out a ground operation along the Pakistan-Afghanis…”
“Hamdullah Fitrat, the deputy spokesperson for Afghanistan’s Taliban government, said the Pakistani forces targeted a home in Paktia's Chamkani district, killing an elderly man and a child, while other family members were injured. When resi…”
“Six people, mostly women and children, were killed in a village in Giyan district, Paktika province, when another home was struck, he said.”
“A civilian home in Kunar province was also hit, causing no casualties but killing some 30 livestock.”
“Tarar said the overnight strikes killed “terrorists” and destroyed weapons and ammunition stockpiles.”
“Tarar said Pakistan’s relentless counter-terrorism campaign “will continue at full pace to wipe out the menace of foreign-sponsored and supported terrorism from the country.””
“China also hosted the two sides in April and Beijing later said Pakistan and Afghanistan had agreed not to escalate their conflict and to explore a solution.”
“Iran said Monday it had held its first meeting with Oman on managing the Strait of Hormuz since it signed a framework deal with the US earlier this month.”
“The deal was supposed to open the door to a final settlement between the two to end the war that has caused chaos across the Middle East and snarled the flow of oil and gas shipments through the vital waterway. Under the 60-day framework, …”
“The closure sent energy prices sharply higher and disrupted global supply chains for more than four months, and the blockade remains a key sticking point in negotiations with the US.”
“The strait through which a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas passed prior to the war comprises Omani and Iranian territorial waters, but under customary international law neither can generally block passage or levy tolls.”
“Iran said it retaliated with strikes against US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, targeting the US Fifth Fleet headquarters at Salman Port in Bahrain and the Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait.”
“Iran's IRGC said it was taking measures to control traffic in the strait and that vessels violating them would be dealt with more firmly than before.”
“The first round of technical talks will take place only when all conditions are met, and the date and venue is agreed upon by all sides, Gharibabadi added.”
“Any attempt to adopt new or separate arrangements compared to what is under way by the Islamic Republic of Iran, will only lead to more complicated situations and delays in the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and will increase the tensi…”
“The published text of the memorandum of understanding says Iran will define the future administration of the strait in dialogue with Oman and the other Gulf States, but 'in line' with international law.”
