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Southern Europe sweltered under a ferocious heat wave on Thursday, with a warning that temperatures could reach record levels for the continent next week.Weather alerts were in effect for the Canary Islands of Spain, Italy, Cyprus and Greece, with Greek authorities expecting temperatures to reach 109.4 degrees Fahrenheit on Friday or Saturday.An ambulance was put on standby near the Acropolis archaeological site in Athens, according to local media, ready to provide first aid to tourists suffering from the heat.Tourists seek shade on the ancient Acropolis hill in Athens on Thursday. Petros Giannakouris/APThe impact of extreme summer heat has been highlighted…

A THOUSAND FEET ABOVE TINIAN ISLAND, Northern Mariana Islands: US Air Force Capt. Brenden “Biggie” Small looks out the window of a C-130 as approximately a dozen aircraft parachute in carrying supplies to a small group of troops gathered below.The mission is part of a training exercise involving 70 aircraft and more than 3,000 airmen from seven countries, the largest training exercise in Air Mobility Command history. "At this scale," it's "really unprecedented," says Small.For the first time, the exercise, called Mobility Guardian, focuses on the Pacific as the United States prepares for a possible conflict with China. For two…

President Joe Biden is in Helsinki, Finland, on Thursday, showing the country that NATO views as representing a revitalized and expanding alliance in the face of Russian aggression.Biden just attended a high-profile NATO summit in nearby Lithuania, where much of the focus was on Ukraine's path to membership. However, the United States and its allies touted Finland's becoming the newest member of the defense alliance as one of the most important achievements of the meeting.The country shares an 830-mile border with Russia and until recently had relatively cordial relations with Moscow. But it applied for NATO membership shortly after Russian…

The US women's national soccer team received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at ESPN's annual ESPYS awards Wednesday for their fight for equal pay with the men's team and for raising awareness about inequality salary and social injustices in all fields.The noble cause was in the spotlight in Los Angeles, and he came with a montage showing how and why the players decided to address the issue of equal pay and their lawsuit against US Soccer. The montage then mentioned "critics who push them back" showing tweets from those who disagreed and Will Cain, a former ESPN host now with…