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- Spain swelters as temperatures soar above May average, article with galleryEurope ·
May 21, 2022 People waved fans, glugged water and splashed themselves at fountains in Spain on Saturday as the country sweltered under unseasonably high temperatures pushing close to 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in some places.
- EuropeNorway warns of possible monkeypox infections in Oslo
Norway has begun searching for possible cases of monkeypox in the capital Oslo, the country's Institute of Public Health (FHI) said on Saturday.
- EuropeSwitzerland confirms its first case of monkeypox
Switzerland has detected its first confirmed case of monkeypox, a person in the canton of Bern who contracted it through "close physical contact abroad", the canton said in a statement on Saturday.
- EuropeMore monkeypox cases found in the Netherlands: health authorities
Dutch health authorities announced more cases of monkeypox on Saturday, a day after the first case was confirmed.
- EuropeRussian military says it destroys Western arms consignment in Ukraine
The Russian military said on Saturday it had destroyed a major consignment of Western arms in Ukraine's Zhytomyr region, west of Kyiv, using sea-launched Kalibr cruise missiles.