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When Sam Nia and his wife arrived at their hotel in Nuuk, they were welcomed into a confederacy of stranded tourists whose flights had been unable to get out for days.

"Now my brother is missing, and we're all stranded in different places."

In Aberdeenshire, about a dozen passengers were stranded on a train that hit a tree on the line from Inverurie to Aberdeen on Friday evening.

Thousands of passengers were stranded at Munich airport overnight.

The closure has stranded many Palestinians in the West Bank, who are unable to go on planned trips abroad.