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BBC
Delhi sizzles as temperatures cross 45C (113 Fahrenheit)
Northern India, including capital Delhi, is reeling under a fierce heatwave with temperatures soaring above 45C over the weekend.
On Sunday, Najafgarh district in Delhi recorded a temperature of 47.8C, the highest in the country this season.
The weather department has said the heat spell is likely to continue this week.
The searing heat comes as India is holding its general election, the results of which will be declared on 4 June.
The IMD has predicted that maximum temperatures in Delhi and other northern cities are likely to hover around 45-46C over Monday and Tuesday.
It has also predicted a fresh heat spell over parts of western and central India over the next few days.
The Guardian
Houston power outages persist amid sweltering heat
Houston in Texas is still grappling with the effects of a massive storm that swept through the US south last week, including widespread power outages that have persisted for days in increasingly hotter weather.
More than 200,000 Houstonians have been without power, and thus air conditioning, for more than four days already, and may have to wait even longer since CenterPoint Energy, the utility company which primarily services the city, has failed to restore power in many parts. Although more than 75% of residents have had their power turned back on, many will still have to wait until at least Wednesday.
The recent bout of severe weather caused major flooding, as well as damage to homes and buildings and killed seven people. The National Weather Service said “heat index values will be approaching/exceeding 100F throughout the week” in south-east Texas.
BBC
What ICC arrest warrants mean for Israel and Hamas
Benjamin Netanyahu responded with fury to the news that he might face an arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
It was "a moral outrage of historic proportions", he said. Israel was "waging a just war against Hamas, a genocidal terrorist organisation that perpetrated the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust."
In a bitter personal attack, Mr Netanyahu said Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was one of the "great antisemites in modern times."
Mr Khan, he said, was like judges in Nazi Germany who denied Jews basic rights and enabled the Holocaust. His decision to seek arrest warrants against Israel’s prime minister and defence minister was "callously pouring gasoline on the fires of antisemitism that are raging around the world.’
Mr Khan does not make direct comparisons between the two sides, except to lay out his claim that they have both committed a series of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
He also emphasises that this latest war comes in the context of "an international armed conflict between Israel and Palestine, and a non-international armed conflict between Israel and Hamas".
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