Cuba to shut plants to save power
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Cuba is to close more than 100 factories for all of October as part of a plan to deal with power shortages.
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Enough Californians shut off enough appliances to keep the state's power grid manager from calling an expected power emergency on Thursday, which would have forced some businesses to cut back, state officials said.
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Hurricane Ivan has roared into the Gulf of Mexico, spurring evacuations along the US coast and shutting down some oil production after ripping off roofs and downing trees and power lines when it grazed western Cuba.
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JERUSALEM, Jan. 20 -- Gaza's only power plant ceased operating in the Gaza Strip on Sunday night, plunging much of the territory of 1.5 million Palestinians into darkness and winter cold. Palestinian officials said a three-day-old Israeli blockade had exhausted the fuel needed to run the plant.
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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro stepped down on Tuesday after almost half a century at Cuba's helm, setting the stage for an orderly transfer of power to his brother Raul.
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Communist rule of Cuba should end when ailing leader Fidel Castro dies, President Bush said as he prepared for a Latin American tour this week.
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MADRID, June 1 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a lightning stop here Friday, intending to signal an end to the Bush administration's diplomatic deepfreeze of the Spanish government, but new tensions emerged over dealings with Cuba.
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MEXICO CITY, Feb. 19 -- Fidel Castro announced early Tuesday morning that he is stepping down as Cuba's president, ending his half-century rule of the island nation.
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Cuba announced Monday that US dollars will no longer be accepted at businesses and stores on the communist island starting next month in a move that will radically change the
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The first power generating unit of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant was switched off from the Ukrainian power supply system on the night to Wednesday on request of the plant's maintenance engineers.
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Cuba is planning to ban the use of US dollars on the communist Caribbean island in answer to tighter US sanctions. Cuban leader Fidel Castro announced his decision on Monday
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Two Russian weapons-grade plutonium  production reactors are ahead of schedule for shutting down and  will stop operating before this December's deadline, the U.S.  Energy Department said on Friday.
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Cuba announced Monday that US dollars will no longer be accepted at stores or other businesses on the communist island starting next month in a move that will radically change the way
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Cuba was right to reject calls from the European Union for negotiations to improve relations until the EU scraps sanctions against the island, Cuban leader Fidel Castro said in an editorial published on Thursday.
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All or part of four North American plants will be closed, and its parent company did not rule out selling the unit.
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Rising construction costs and potential climate legislation in Congress halt at least 18 proposed power plants in the past nine months.
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For a moment, the 25-year-old baker panicked when he heard that Fidel Castro was stepping down as Cuba's president. He flicked a switch to see if power had been cut, and turned a tap to check for water. He wondered whether the distribution center would come through with milk rations for his two kids.