Heavy snow blanketing three regions of Romania has closed schools and disrupted road traffic.
The 24-hour hour strike has closed schools and halted ferries and trains across the country.
Authorities closed schools for the rest of the week and urged everyone to stay away from school property.
Authorities had halted public transportation, closed schools and advised residents to stay locked indoors for much of Friday during the manhunt.
This week the government declared national mobilisation and closed schools and universities.
Officials closed schools in three nearby districts for the week.
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The result is population drift, closed schools, shops and services.
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Coventry City Council and Warwickshire County Council websites had full lists of closed schools, but due to heavy demand, they were slower than usual to load at times.
As the City of New York struggled to deal with the effects of hurricane Sandy Tuesday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg closed schools for a third day and declined to offer a solid timetable for the resumption of power or rail service to the city, which was hard hit by the storm on Monday night.
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More than 100 schools are closed in Shropshire, and 224 schools are closed in Lincolnshire, where it is also continuing to snow.
In Midlothian six nurseries, 35 primary and six secondary schools closed and two special schools shut.
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Power companies and public works are shoring up their resources, and some states have closed public schools.
Council bosses and head teachers have dismissed suggestions they might have closed some schools unnecessarily because of exaggerated safety fears.
In neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, the authorities have closed all schools for a week after a cold wave claimed the lives of 104 people.
Similarly in Dudley the borough council closed all schools on Tuesday.
Numerous schools are closed, including all schools on Arran, all Argyll and Bute primary schools south of Tarbert and more than a dozen schools in Dumfries and Galloway.
The parties had also previously agreed to a lengthening of the school day in exchange for the city agreeing to hire back 477 teachers that had been laid off when the city closed some schools in response to a budget crisis.
The move is part of a 10-year programme in the county that could see up to 32 schools closed and replaced with new area "super schools".
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Carmarthenshire has a 10-year schools' reorganisation programme, aimed at improving school buildings as well as cutting surplus places, that could see up to 32 schools closed and replaced with new area "super schools".
Around 1, 000 schools were closed again on Thursday including all schools in the Vale of Glamorgan, and many in Caerphilly, Cardiff, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
All schools in the city, except Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Llwynderw, are closed but comprehensive schools that have exams are open.
Monday saw far fewer schools closed across the UK, although 55 were shut in Aberdeenshire.
Snow became heavier through the morning and many of the schools closed at lunchtime.
Overnight snow has caused travel problems in Derbyshire as East Midlands Airport and several schools closed.
Hundreds of schools closed following the first snowfall on Friday and eight remained closed on Monday.
On Monday, more than 100 Derbyshire schools closed, with travel problems reported across the county.
The South American nation is in a seven-day period of mourning, with schools closed for the week.
More than 30 Leicestershire schools closed and East Midlands Airport suspended flights because of the wintry weather.
Baverstock School and Specialist Sports College in Druids Heath, Birmingham, was one of the schools closed on Tuesday.
Over 200 schools closed on Friday, and there have been several weather-related road crashes over the last few days.
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