Frankfurt’s airport closed, trains stopped running under the English Channel, and the French army was ordered to help clear roads – all because of a sudden dump of oddly late snowfall on Western...
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Given the recent cancellation of a United States port call, a Hong Kong-based 'navy' - the Liechtenstein Princely Navy - decided to step into the void.
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