Summary

Summer came too early to Europe's most important rice-growing region, and weeds are taking over Sharon Angoli's parched paddies in Italy's Pavia province. "That one is done for, no matter what happens," the 22-year-old said as she surveyed one desolate field that has been baked by one of the most severe heat waves to hit the continent in June.

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