Record temperatures bring deaths, struggles in worst-hit countries

BENI MELLAL, Morocco — In the unrelenting heat of Morocco's Middle Atlas, people were sleeping on rooftops. Hanna Ouhbour needed refuge too, but she was outside a hospital waiting for her diabetic cousin who was in a room without air conditioning. On Wednesday, there were 21 heat-related deaths at Beni Mellal's main hospital as temperatures spiked to 48.3 degrees Celsius in the region of 575,000 people, most lacking air conditioning. "We don't have money and we don't have a choice," said Ouhbour...