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Seville, located in southern Spain, experienced summertime temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) last year. The intensity of the heatwave merited a moniker: Heatwave Yago, the second event bearing the city's name in the past two years.  Similar to numerous other cities in Europe and globally, Seville is currently grappling with temperatures that exceed its structural capacity. In London, England, railway tracks and airport tarmac were dissolved by extreme heat in the summer of 2022. Germans began contemplating midday siestas in July 2023 as a means to flee the oppressive heat.

Hundreds are detained at universities across the United States in connection with ongoing Gaza protests.  On Saturday, hundreds more individuals were detained on college campuses throughout the United States in response to student demonstrations against the Gaza conflict.  Jill Stein, a presidential candidate for the Green Party, was among those detained by police.

Rishi Sunak has refrained from formally denying the possibility of conducting a nationwide election in July, despite the continued prevalence of conjecture regarding the occasion. Consistently, the prime minister has expressed his "working assumption" that the election will occur during the latter part of this year; however, the law stipulates that he cannot call it off until January 2025. However, numerous commentators have anticipated a referendum in the autumn.

To contain the far right, France must abandon the individualism that is fragmenting society and reestablish a sense of community, according to French actor Omar Sy, who stars in the popular Netflix series Lupin.  Sy stated in a series of media interviews to promote a new book about his life that it was difficult to be black in France and that notions of justice, equality, and fraternity had been disturbed.