Sky News: At least 92 people have died after a fire swept through the coronavirus ward at an Iraqi hospital. More than 100 were injured in the blaze at al Hussein Teaching Hospital in the southern city of Nasiryah. Iraqi…

The Guardian, by Philip Oltermann: At least 58 people have died and dozens more are missing in Germany after much of Western Europe was inundated by record rainfall that brought devastating floods. “Climate change has arrived in Germany,” the environment…

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CNN, by Jay Croft: Northern California’s Butte County, the site of the state’s deadliest and most destructive inferno ever in 2018, is now battling another blaze. The Dixie Fire has led county officials to issue evacuation warnings for residents. It…

AP News, by Matthew Perrone and Mike Stobbe: U.S. regulators on Monday added a new warning to Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine about links to a rare and potentially dangerous neurological reaction, but said it’s not entirely clear the shot…

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AP News: Lightning has killed at least 38 people across two Indian states over the past 24 hours, officials said Monday. A majority of the deaths occurred in the western state of Rajasthan, where 11 people died after being struck…

AP News, by Daisy Nguyen: Firefighters struggled to contain an exploding Northern California wildfire under blazing temperatures as another heat wave blanketed the West, prompting an excessive heat warning for inland and desert areas. Death Valley in southeastern California’s Mojave…