BERLIN (Reuters) - Unusually harsh winter weather conditions gripped parts of northern Europe on Saturday, leading to power failures, cancelled flights and traffic chaos on icy highways.
A quarter of a million people were without electricity in Germany's most populous state of North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW), authorities said on Saturday. Snow and ice also affected flights in and out of the airport at Duesseldorf, the NRW state capital.
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