Heat wave and drought shrivel harvests across Europe

Wall Street Journal: A woman digs out potatoes Tuesday in her former garden, ravaged by wildfires that also burned her house, in Verkhnyaya Vereya village, Russia. The scorching temperatures and dry skies threatening Russia's wheat harvests have also been beating down on Western Europe, which is forecasting lower output of crops from French wheat to Italian tomatoes. Russia's Agriculture Ministry Tuesday cut its forecast for the country's 2010 grain output to between 70 million and 75 million ......

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