Europe battles
near-Arctic temperatures and the heaviest snowfall for decades, with severe
cold weather blanketing Turkey
in the south-east to the UK
in the north-west
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People slide along the promenade past ice-covered cars and trees on the shores of Lake Geneva in Versoix, Switzerland |
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The Inn river near Bever in the Engadin valley in Grisons, Switzerland |
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| Pedestrians shuffle through a snowstorm in Burgos, northern Spain |
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A skater passes windmills on a frozen waterway in Kinderdijk, The Netherlands |
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| Revellers flock to Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, London, for some sledging |
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| The frozen Tallinn Bay area in Tallinn, capital of Estonia |
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A near blizzard covers paths and parkland in Burgos, northern Spain |
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Birds descend on the partly frozen Elbe river in Dresden, Germany |
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| A gladiatorial contest, of sorts, outside the snow-covered Colosseum in Rome |
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A water taxi sails along a part-frozen Canal of Cannaregio in Venice, Italy |
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| Heavy snowfall forces an end to the Sarajevo city tram service in Bosnia |
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Workers clean the tracks outside the North Railway Station in Bucharest, Romania |
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| A father tows his child on a sledge in Sarajevo, Bosnia |
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A dog bounds through the deep snow in Great Chart, Kent |
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A father and son enjoy the snow in Harrogate, Yorkshire, northern England |
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A unicyclist battles the conditions in a Budapest park, Hungary |
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A chicken tackles the snow in Vertou, western France |
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The frozen Prinsengracht canal in Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
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| Pelicans huddle to keep warm in St James's Park in central London |
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| A woman struggles to negotiate the snow en route to Ibaneta, Spain |
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| The frozen Black Sea shoreline of the Constanta harbour in Romania |
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| Snow-covered fields in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany |
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| Snow-covered tree trunks in Bornholm, Denmark |
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| Frost crystals pictured on a window in Zurich, Switzerland |
