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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 19 January 2021
Freezing weather hits much of Europe, from Poland to Turkey

By VANESSA GERA caused water supply pipes
Associated Press to freeze and created dan-
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — gerous driving conditions.
Extreme cold has hit large The icy roads in the city of
parts of Europe, with freez- Pogradec prevented fire-
ing temperatures cracking fighters from arriving in time
railroad tracks in Poland, at a home fire in which a
snow blanketing the Turkish man died early Monday.
city of Istanbul and smog The man’s brother, Nikolin
spiking as coal was being Xhukellari, told the Balkan-
burned to generate heat. web online portal that he
In Switzerland, a skier who managed to get his two
had been buried by an av- children and wife out of
alanche on the weekend the building but his brother,
died in a hospital of his in- who was on the second
juries, authorities said Mon- floor, could not escape.
day. In Istanbul, traffic was
The country had issued av- brought to a halt by the
alanche warnings several layer of snow covering the
days earlier after heavy city, with cars stalled or
snowfall hit various regions. skidding on the roads.
Officials said the skier and In Germany, fresh snow,
his two companions were slippery roads and fallen
buried by an avalanche Deeply covered with snow are the trees at the Grenzadler in Oberhof, Germany, Sunday, Jan. 17, trees led to several car ac-
while they were skiing off 2021. Associated Press cidents on Sunday and
marked trails in the Gstaad overnight, the dpa news
area on Sunday afternoon. 11 years. Many trains were coldest night this year with The freezing weather was agency reported. A driver
One man was able to free delayed on Monday after temperatures dropping be- expected to ease and be died in southwestern Ger-
himself from the snow and tracks at two Warsaw rail- low minus 20 degrees Cel- replaced by heavy snowfall many after his car shot over
then extricate one of the way stations cracked. sius (minus 4 Fahrenheit) in in the northeastern Czech a mound of snow.
others, but the third man Hand-in-hand with the cold many places. Republic, the institute said. The Nordic region also saw
could only be found by res- came a spike in smog in The lowest temperature, Wintry weather and freez- snow and subfreezing tem-
cue crews who arrived later Warsaw and other parts of of minus 27 degrees Cel- ing temperatures have also peratures, with the coldest
on the scene. He was taken Poland, as the cold prompt- sius (minus 16 Fahrenheit), been reported through- temperatures predictably
to a hospital in critical con- ed an increase in burning was recorded Monday in out the Balkans in the past recorded in the Arctic.
dition and died a short time coal for heat. Air pollution Orlicke Zahori, a mountain- days, which has created Norway’s meteorological
later, authorities said. levels were so high in War- ous village 160 kilometers problems with power sup- institute tweeted a tongue-
Temperatures dropped saw that city officials urged (100 miles) east of Prague plies in some parts of Serbia in-cheek message on Mon-
to minus 28 degrees Cel- people to remain indoors. and near the Polish border, and brought some snow day, saying: “we encour-
sius (minus 18 Fahrenheit) Just across Poland’s south- according to the Czech even to Croatia’s Adriatic age all knitting lovers to
in some Polish areas over- western border, the Czech Hydrometeorological Insti- Sea islands. send woolen clothes to
night, the coldest night in Republic experienced the tute. The deep freeze has their friends in the north.”q

U.K. seafood trucks protest at Parliament over Brexit red tape

By JILL LAWLESS descended on Britain’s ing their businesses. But now some in Britain’s 5½-year transition period.
Associated Press Parliament Monday to pro- More than a dozen large fishing industry say they After that, new quotas will
LONDON (AP) — Trucks test the Brexit-related red lorries — one bearing the are facing ruin because have to be negotiated.
owned by U.K. shellfish firms tape they claim is suffocat- words “Brexit carnage!” of new barriers to shipping At the same time, Britain’s
— drove past the Houses their catch abroad. exit from the EU means
of Parliament in central Last week, one Scottish new costs and red tape for
London and parked out- fishing boss threatened to exporters — a major prob-
side Downing St., home dump his rotting catch on lem, since Britain exports
to British Prime Minister Bo- politicians’ doorstep if the most of the fish its boats
ris Johnson. Police spoke situation did not improve. catch. Some fishing com-
to the drivers, who could Fishing rights became a panies say the new restric-
face fines for breaching major sticking point in the tions have made it impos-
coronavirus restrictions by trade negotiations that fol- sible to ship their catch to
making non-essential jour- lowed the U.K.’s political Europe. Some British fisher-
neys. departure from the bloc in men have begun landing
British fishing communities January 2020, as European their catch in EU member
were among the strongest nations sought to retain Denmark to keep it in the
supporters of leaving the access to waters where bloc. “If this debacle does
A shellfish export truck with a protest sign written across the European Union, because they have fished for de- not improve very soon we
trailer ‘Incompetent Government Destroying Shellfish Industry” it promised the chance for cades or even centuries. are looking at many estab-
drives past the Palace of Westminster in London, Monday, Jan. the U.K. to leave the bloc’s Under a new post-Brexit lished businesses coming
18, 2021, during a demonstration by British Shellfish exporters complex system of fishing U.K.-EU trade deal signed to the end of the line,” said
to protest Brexit-related red tape they claim is suffocating their quotas and regain control last month, the EU’s share Alasdair Hughson, chair-
business. over who is allowed to fish of the catch in British seas man of the Scottish Creel
Associated Press
in British waters. will be cut by 25% over a Fisherman’s Federation.q