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Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercedovina — A Bosnian armed forces helicopter takes off for an aid flight. Helicopters ferried food and medicine to snowbound villages.

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Kiev, Ukraine — A huge screen on Independence Square shows the temperature of -14 degress Celsius, about 7 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Kiev, Ukraine — A woman walks in the city center.

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Hanover, Germany — A polar bear is fed a fish at the zoo.

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Hirschfeld, Germany — A table and benches are surrounded by frozen flood water on a river bench in southern Germany.

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Donetsk, Ukraine — A man with cold-related injuries gets treatment at a hospital.

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Bayrischzell, Germany — Snow blankets the Alps visible from Wendelstein mountain in Bavaria.

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Berlin — A cyclist takes a photograph of the frozen river Spree.

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Hamburg — A boat is captured in the ice.

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Warsaw, Poland — A little stand offers hot bean soup for drivers.

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Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercedovina — A life-size figure of a Tyranosaurus Rex at the city's zoo.

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Senj, Croatia — Ice turns a lighthouse and lamp posts into sculptures along the port.

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Bayrischzell, Germany — Frost coats a window of the church on Wendelstein, Germany's highest church.

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Skopje, Macedonia — The man sleds down Vodno Mountain below the Millennium Cross.

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Schwarzach, Germany — A barge on the frozen river Main.

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Athens, Greece — A homeless man tries to stay warm.

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Bucharest, Romania — A woman on a bus looks out through a largely ice-covered window. The death toll from a weeklong deep freeze in Eastern Europe has risen to 122 people, many of them homeless, while at least 11,000 villagers have been trapped by snow in Serbia's mountains, authorities said.

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Versoix, Switzerland — Ice covers boats in the Port of Choiseul after the wind blew waves over the boardwalk along Lake Geneva.

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Warsaw, Poland — A squirrel checks for food in a bird feeder in Lazienki Park.

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Hochfilzen, Austria — Icicles hang from a roof in the province of Tyrol.

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Alsogod, Hungary — Thick ice covers of the anchor of a small ferry in the River Danube north of Budapest.

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Hamburg, Germany — A view of the ice on the river Elbe.

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Tiszakeszi, Hungary — A snowplow cleans a road 100 miles north of Budapest.

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Minsk, Belarus — Ducks take off from a pound on a cold winter's day. Eastern Europe's cold snap has seen temperatures plunging to 17 degrees Fahrenheit in some areas.

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Tabarz, Germany — A heart is etched in snow on a fence on Grosser Inselberg, a mountain in eastern Germany.

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Tabarz, Germany — A motorist passes through a snowy landscape on Grosser Inselberg, a mountain in eastern Germany.

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Space — A satellite image made Feb. 1, 2012, provided by Eumetsat, shows the cold air flowing south over the Black Sea and picking up moisture, leading to heavy snowfall in Turkey. The smooth cyan areas over Turkey are heavy snow.

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Split, Croatia — Residents enjoy skiing at the city's waterfront after an unusually heavy snowfall covered the town.

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Amsterdam — Boats sit locked in ice in a canal. Dutch authorities banned boat traffic from some of Amsterdam's waterways in the hope that the big freeze gripping the city would turn the still water to ice and allow residents to go skating.

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Donetsk, Ukraine — A homeless man has dinner near a tent of hot tea and food set up by Ukrainian rescuers.

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Bad Ragaz, Switzerland — A pedestrian admires the ice-covered landscape of the Tamina gorge.

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Harlingen, the Netherlands — Schoolchildren cycle on freshly fallen snow between Franeker and Harlingen in Friesland. Snowfalls and sub-zero temperatures are on record in the region.

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Belgrade, Serbia — A woman is glimpsed on a bus moving through heavy snow in Belgrade. The snow triggered traffic chaos in Belgrade and other Serbian cities, complicating relief efforts as Eastern Europe's harshest cold snap in decades spreads to the north of the country.

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Kladanj, Bosnia — A Bosnian man walks on a snow-covered road in the village of Breteljevici, north of Sarajevo.

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Dresden, Germany — Icicles hang on branches along the banks of the River Elbe.

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Sofia, Bulgaria — A woman takes shelter under an umbrella as she goes for a walk in the snow on a freezing morning.

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Kiev, Ukraine — Ukrainian girls bundle up as they walk in downtown Kiev.

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Davos, Switzerland — A cow peeks out of its icicle-covered stable.

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Davos, Switzerland — A group of snowshoe hikers make their way across the snowy terrain.

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Bayrischzell, Germany — Hikers make their way to the frost-covered Wendelstein church, Germany's highest church, on the 6,000-foot Wendelstein mountain. A cold spell with temperatures far below zero has reached central and eastern Europe.

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Bilbao, Spain — A couple take photographs in front of the Guggenheim museum during a snowy day.

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St. Petersburg, Russia — A Russian man takes a swim in an ice hole in a lake.

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Seegraeben, Switzerland — Wooden figurines are transformed into ice sculptures at a temperature of minus 8.5 degrees Celsius, or 16.7 degrees Fahrenheit, as arctic weather sweeps through central Europe.

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Eisenach, Germany — Icicles hang on a rock as the sun sinks in the west in the Thuringian Forest.

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Kiev, Ukraine — A woman is dressed for the cold in the center of the city in Ukraine, where 43 people have died of hypothermia over the last six days as the country has suffered a severe period of cold weather. More than 800 people sought medical help for frostbite and hypothermia.

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Oberhof, Germany — Skiers make their way through the snow-covered landscape in eastern Germany. The Siberian cold front "Cooper" (named for the Mini Cooper after an advertising agency bought the naming rights in Germany) brought icy temperatures to some parts of the country.

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Munich, Germany — An elephant eats a snowball at the Tierpark Hellabrunn zoo.

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