Spain, Portugal swelter under new heat wave

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Madrid, Spain (Agence France-Presse) Temperatures were set to soar above 40 degrees Celsius across large parts of Spain and Portugal on Monday as the Iberian Peninsula faces a second heat wave in less than a month. The mercury was to hit 42 degrees Celsius (107.6 Fahrenheit) in Spain’s southeastern region of Extremadura and 41 degrees in Andalusia, Spain’s meteorological agency AEMET said. Temperatures in Spain’s normally cooler northwestern region of Galicia were predicted to rise […]