27-member EU scrambling to fill gas storage ahead of winter, as Moscow turns down supplies in order to gain political leverage in confrontation over Ukraine

Heat measured at 39.1 degrees Celsius; at least five people drown while trying to cool off; wildfires continue to spread in France

Scientists warn climate change causing long and more intense heatwaves as temperature records break, fires rage across continent

Agriculture in union's southern states takes beating, with river basin in Italy facing worst possible level of drought

Britain issues first-ever 'red warning' of extreme heat; some hospitals cancel surgeries, many schools to shut; blazes in France, Greece, Portugal, Spain force thousands to flee

Blazes burn large swaths of land in France, Portugal, Spain and Greece; climate change blamed for intense heatwave set to break temperature records in Britain

Former head of WHO's emergencies department says outbreak is a 'random event' caused by parties in Spain and Belgium

In joint statement, 15 countries say construction of over 4,000 planned units 'would constitute an additional obstacle to the two-state solution'

Nationalists gain over 40% of French votes, coming closer than ever to the Élysée Palace and entrenching racism and xenophobia in the mainstream

World body says more than 4.7 million Ukrainians and another 215,000 foreign nationals have fled to neighboring countries since war began; nearly 24,000 in Israel