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Extreme Heat Shuts Down Some Nuclear Reactors in Europe

Power plant operators in Switzerland and France idled reactors so that discharged cooling water would not harm wildlife in already-hot rivers.

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The Beznau Nuclear Power Plant in Switzerland, one of two nuclear stations shut down in the past week.
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In Europe, Economists See a Chance to Rise on the Global Stage

Central bankers who gathered in Portugal this week focused on ways that Europe could improve its competitiveness with the United States and China.

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Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, on Tuesday at the bank’s forum in Sintra, Portugal, which had a sense of calm amid the chaos in the world.
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