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A street vendor braves freezing temperatures while selling knitted clothing in central Moscow. The Russian capital is suffering through a record wave of deadly cold weather.

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Syrian refugee children have a snowball fight in Bhamdoun, Lebanon. The fiercest winter storm to hit the Middle East in years has unleashed flash flooding, strong winds and a snowstorm that killed six people.

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A young girl watches the snow fall from her bedroom window in Amman, Jordan. The storm dumped two feet of snow on many parts of the country, shutting schools, stranding motorists and delaying international flights in one of the fiercest storms to hit the Mideast in 30 years.

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Leo Torres uses a table knife to scrape the ice off his windshield in El Paso, Texas. A winter storm dumped four inches of snow in the El Paso area, about half of one year's total snowfall, causing schools, businesses and government institutions to close.

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People warm themselves near a fire on a cold evening near Brahmaputra River in Gauhati, India. North India continues to face below average weather conditions with dense fog affecting flights and trains.

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Tammy Holmes and her grandchildren take refuge under a pier as a wildfire rages nearby in Dunalley, Australia.

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This photo taken from the International Space Station shows a view of the wildfire near Burrinjuck Dam in Australia.

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Cars sit piled up after heavy rains caused extreme flooding near the Mediterranean coastal city of Netanya, Israel.