Extreme heat grips Southern Europe as Spain sends toxic alerts and France shuts reactors

Southern Europe is buckling under extreme heat, Euronews reports. A Spanish industrial fire triggered toxic air alerts, France shut down nuclear reactors to protect river levels, and in Greece, wildfires have killed five people in what officials call one of the country's worst environmental crises in a decade.

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