The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. July 26, 2019 Five Dead as Europe Swelters Under Record-Setting Heat ------------------------------------------------------ In Europe, at least five people have died as a massive heat wave grips much of the continent, shattering record high temperatures-many of which were set during a previous heat wave just weeks ago. Thermometers in Paris clocked temperatures Thursday of nearly 110 degrees Fahrenheit, an all-time high, with new records also set in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. .