Whiteout in southern Europe

Updated On Feb 01, 2012 08:28 pm IST
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A gondolier ferries passengers across the Grand Canal in the snow in Venice. Reuters photo/Stringer expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A gondolier ferries passengers across the Grand Canal in the snow in Venice. Reuters photo/Stringer

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A snow covered vineyard is seen in northern Athens. Snowfall and frost were reported in most parts of Greece for third day as European cold snap death toll rises to 71 people. AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A snow covered vineyard is seen in northern Athens. Snowfall and frost were reported in most parts of Greece for third day as European cold snap death toll rises to 71 people. AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis

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A mother and son enjoy a sledge ride at the Feldberg mountain in Schmitten, 25km (16 miles) north-west of Frankfurt. Reuters Photo/Kai Pfaffenbach expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A mother and son enjoy a sledge ride at the Feldberg mountain in Schmitten, 25km (16 miles) north-west of Frankfurt. Reuters Photo/Kai Pfaffenbach

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The surface of the Black Sea is seen covered with ice at the port of Yevpatoria. Reuters Photo/Stringer expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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The surface of the Black Sea is seen covered with ice at the port of Yevpatoria. Reuters Photo/Stringer

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Ducks take off from a pound on a cold winter's day in Minsk, Belarus. Europe's cold snap has seen temperatures plunging to minus 27 C (minus 17 F) in some areas and dozens of homeless people have died. AP Photo/Sergei Grits expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Ducks take off from a pound on a cold winter's day in Minsk, Belarus. Europe's cold snap has seen temperatures plunging to minus 27 C (minus 17 F) in some areas and dozens of homeless people have died. AP Photo/Sergei Grits

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A Ukrainian angler, in a tent for protection from the wind and cold, fishes through an ice hole on the Dnipro river outside Cherkasy, central Ukraine. AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A Ukrainian angler, in a tent for protection from the wind and cold, fishes through an ice hole on the Dnipro river outside Cherkasy, central Ukraine. AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky

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A view of the city of Siena, central Italy, blanketed in snow, as snowfalls have been battering the country. AP Photo/Paolo Lazzeroni expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A view of the city of Siena, central Italy, blanketed in snow, as snowfalls have been battering the country. AP Photo/Paolo Lazzeroni

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People are seen through an icy window on a tram in central Sofia. Two more people have died in Bulgaria amid a cold snap that has seen temperatures drop to their lowest levels in a century in some parts of the country. AFP Photo/Dimitar Dilkoff expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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People are seen through an icy window on a tram in central Sofia. Two more people have died in Bulgaria amid a cold snap that has seen temperatures drop to their lowest levels in a century in some parts of the country. AFP Photo/Dimitar Dilkoff

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Workers clear the snow from the field before the Italian Serie A soccer match between Bologna and Fiorentina at the Renato Dall'Ara stadium in Bologna. Reuters Photo/Stringer expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Workers clear the snow from the field before the Italian Serie A soccer match between Bologna and Fiorentina at the Renato Dall'Ara stadium in Bologna. Reuters Photo/Stringer

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A woman protects her face from frost as she walks, with the air temperature at about minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit) in Kiev. Reuters photo/Gleb Garanich expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A woman protects her face from frost as she walks, with the air temperature at about minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit) in Kiev. Reuters photo/Gleb Garanich

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A woman walks on snow at a suburb as temperatures dropped to below zero degrees Celsius in Athens. Reuters Photo/John Kolesidis expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A woman walks on snow at a suburb as temperatures dropped to below zero degrees Celsius in Athens. Reuters Photo/John Kolesidis

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A tramway passes in an alley covered with snow in Milan. Snow blanketed Italy forcing the closure of tracts of motorway and snarling traffic in the cities of Bologna and Milan. AFP Photo/Giuseppe Cacace expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A tramway passes in an alley covered with snow in Milan. Snow blanketed Italy forcing the closure of tracts of motorway and snarling traffic in the cities of Bologna and Milan. AFP Photo/Giuseppe Cacace

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