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Added on the 13/02/2021 14:48:19 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Amsterdam residents enjoyed the city's frozen canals over the weekend, even ice skating on their surface for the first time in years. The 'Beast from the East,' a massive cold front originating from Siberia that brought blizzards and freezing temperatures to much of Europe, had a silver lining. The subzero temperatures froze parts of Amsterdam's iconic Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht canals hard enough to support ice skaters.
It only happens once every few years, but this winter a Dutch city got lucky and were able to skate the entire town.
Freezing rain hit the north and east of France on Wednesday morning, making for icy road and slow traffic. The snowfall expected during this cold spell, made rarer by climate change, remains measured. IMAGES
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Residents and soldier run to take shelter as the rocket alert siren wails in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona, near the Lebanon border, amid cross-border fighting. Some 19,646 people have left villages in south Lebanon due to cross-border fire between Hezbollah and Israel, according to the UN's International Organization for Migration. IMAGES
Police and protesters clash violently in the northern Argentine province of Jujuy during a demonstration against a reform to the local constitution that criminalises some forms of protest. There are no official figures for the number of wounded and detainees. IMAGES
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