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  Lamp posts are covered in ice in the Adriatic coastal town of Senj, Croatia. The Arctic cold snap that hit Europe has claimed nearly 300 lives. (Darko Bandic, AP)
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  Pieces of fur are seen attached to the rubber boot soles in order to prevent slipping, as a man walks on snowy road in Skopje, Macedonia. Temperatures in the Balkan dropped as low as minus 36 degrees Celsius. (Boris Grdanoski, AP)
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  A car drives through the snowy landscape on the Grosser Inselberg mountain (916 meters) near Tabarz, eastern Germany. (Martin Schutt, AFP)
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  Snow covers trees near the village of Godhjem on the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. (Jonathan Nackstrand, AFP)
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  People skate on the frozen Prinsengracht canal in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (Margriet Faber, AP)
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  A skater waits for another to pass a layer of thin ice under a bridge on Brouwersgracht canal in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (Peter de Jong, AP)
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  A hooded woman with a scarf over her face looks on as snow falls in Skopje, Macedonia. (Boris Grdanoski, AP)
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  A man skis at the Circus Maximus in Rome, Italy. (Alberto Pizzoli, AFP)
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  A man looks at icicles on a rock in central Tbilisi, Georgia. (Vano Shlamov, AFP)
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  A lion cub plays with a snowball at the Belgrade Zoo in Serbia. (Alexa Stankovic, AFP)
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  Icicles at a shipping pier opposite the Cathedral at the Rhine river in the German city of Cologne. (Oliver Berg, AFP)
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  A man jumps into an icy water in St.Petersburg. (Olga Maltseva, AFP)
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  People play in a park in Burgos as snow hits northern Spain. (Cesar Manso, AFP)
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  Ice-covered stones lie on the banks of the river Elbe as cranes of the port of Hamburg, northern Germany, are seen in the background. (Bodo Marks, AFP)
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  A frozen fence in Alexandria, Greece. (Nikolas Giakoumidis, AP)
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  A small boat passes on a canal covered with ice in Venice, Italy. Temperatures fell to minus 10 degrees Celsius. As much as 59,000 households remain without electricity and officials declared a gas supply emergency. (Marco Sabadin, AFP)
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  Dogs play in the snow on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England. (Ben Stansall, AFP)
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  A man walks during a snowfall in Skopje’s city park in Macedonia. (Robert Atanasovski, AFP)
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  The moon raises next to snow-covered trees near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in southern Germany. (Johannes Eisele, AFP)

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