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Houses of Parliament with Big Ben and double-decker buses on Westminster bridge at sunset, London, United Kingdom - 123RF

Southern China has recorded its longest continuous period of high temperatures since records began more than 60 years ago. - 123RF Photo

Temperatures in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian may exceed 40 degrees Celsius. - 123RF Photo

Remains of 14 firefighters who died combatting a major blaze at a Cuban fuel depot last week are too badly burned to be identified - AFP Photo

Largest wildfire in California this year burns in Yreka. - AFP Images

This photograph shows a street thermometer reading 44 degrees Celsius during a heatwave in Seville on July 12, 2022. - (Photo by JORGE GUERRERO / AFP)

Spain was gripped by a heatwave affecting much of Western Europe which pushed temperatures as high as 45 degrees Celsius. Photo: 123RF

(220703) -- MARMOLADA GLACIER, July 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo provided by Italy's Alpine Rescue on July 3, 2022 shows a general view of Marmolada Glacier in northern Italy. At least six people were dead and more than a dozen were missing Sunday after a glacial ice shelf collapsed amid higher-than-usual temperatures in northern Italy. (Italy's Alpine Rescue/Handout via Xinhua)

A boy lights a candle as he visits a makeshift memorial at the spot where a tractor-trailer was discovered with migrants inside, outside San Antonio, Texas on June 29, 2022. - AFP

Saturday's soaring 42.9 degrees Celcius were the peak of a June heatwave in line with scientists' predictions that such phenomena will now strike earlier in the year thanks to global warming. AFP pic