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PARIS (AP) — Even ice cream, Italian gelato or Popsicles couldn't help this time.

Temperature records that had stood for decades or even just days fell minute by minute Thursday afternoon and Europeans and tourists alike jumped into fountains, lakes, rivers or the sea to escape a suffocating heat wave rising up from the Sahara.