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Alternative for Germany’s dominant showing in Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt election has triggered starkly divided reactions across the continent, exposing the widening fault line between Europe’s establishment centre and its emboldened populist right.

The fifth heatwave reached its peak on Friday, splitting Italy in two, with temperatures in the centre and south and on the islands above 40°C, a full ten degrees higher than average, and severe thunderstorms expected to hit the north in the coming hours.