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As the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean warm up faster than the rest of the world, migrant workers describe blistering conditions affecting their health
By
Chao Deng
| Photographs by Huda Abdulmughni for The Wall Street Journal
KUWAIT CITY—Ice-cream seller Ramadan Daber pops painkillers to relieve the headaches induced by this city’s merciless heat, as he waits for customers at his tricycle cart for nine hours at a stretch. Sometimes he can’t see because of the humidity. At other points he struggles to breathe.
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