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With cold weather and snowfall embracing Turkey in the first month of the new year, animal lovers have started to dress their pets following the cold weather conditions. (AA Photo)

Adverse weather conditions that have wreaked havoc across Turkey are set to continue, meteorologists have warned amid a disruption of access to countless villages due to heavy snowfall.

British police have charged a driver with murder after finding a lorry driven from Bulgaria containing 39 dead bodies.

Essex Police apprehended the 25-year-old driver from Northern Ireland in an industrial park in Grays, Essex County, in the east of England, and said he had driven the lorry from Bulgaria.

Authorities raised alerts on June 26 as Europe's record-breaking June heatwave threatened to intensify with temperatures heading into the 40s Celsius.