Germany, Czechia, Poland and Hungary swelter through hottest days on record
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Germany, Czechia, Poland and Hungary reached record temperatures of more than 40C on Sunday as a heatwave linked to hundreds of deaths in western Europe spread east.
More than 191 million people in Europe faced temperatures of at least 35C, with extreme heat warnings across the region.
Germany recorded a new all-time high of 41.7C, in Coschen, near the Polish border in eastern Brandenburg, according to preliminary data from the national weather service. This broke the previous record of 41.5C set a day earlier in Drewitz.
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