Extreme heat across the Mediterranean is expected to build into the weekend, testing records in fire-ravaged Greece after easing slightly on Thursday.
Temperatures on the Italian island of Sardinia climbed close to a record of 118 on Wednesday, but Greece and the Balkans are becoming the new focus of the Saharan anticyclone.
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