Ice knocks out power in northern Portugal, strands seven hikers
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Snow and sleet have pelted northern Portugal, knocking out power to three villages, causing traffic accidents and stranding seven hikers on the nation's highest mountain range.
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Hurricane Helene was expected to pass north of Portugal's Azores archipelago overnight having weakened to an extra-tropical storm but bringing strong winds and tidal surges, forecasters said.
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More than 100,000 homes and businesses were without power this morning as a sleet and ice storm downed electricity lines and blew out transformers throughout the region, hitting hardest in Prince George's and Anne Arundel counties.
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Thousands of customers are without electricity in South Carolina, where a layer of ice as much as one half an inch thick is weighing down tree branches and power lines.
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With electricity reserves depleted, officials in impoverished Tajikistan Â where residents are enduring one of the coldest winters in 25 years Â said Tuesday they would be forced to cut power to much of the country.
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Weather-related outages left more than 5,000 Rocky Mountain Power customers in Salt Lake and Tooele counties without electricity for at least part of the day Sunday.  Some of those customers were expected to be without power until early today, company spokesman Jeff Hymas said.
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Rescuers found 13 bodies and at least four people suffering from severe hypothermia in a boat that was towed to this island in Spain's Canary archipelago, emergency services officials said.
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Fifty-seven people were airlifted to safety last night after a series of landslides caused by torrential rainstorms trapped them in their vehicles in the Lochearnhead area, north of Stirling in central Scotland.
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Snow and ice storms have stranded hundreds of thousands of people Â most of them migrant workers hoping to leave for the Chinese New Year Â and more blizzards threatened Monday to wreck what for many is a rare chance to see family.
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A series of powerful earthquakes and aftershocks rattled northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 700 as buildings crumbled, a
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Two activists harassing a Japanese whaling boat off Anarctica were lost for seven hours in bad weather Friday before being rescued with the Japanese vessel's help, according to colleagues.
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Five people have been killed, more than 1,000 homes flooded and almost 200,000 others left without power as violent storms swept through northern Europe, bringing hurricane force winds and violent rain.
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A POWERFUL typhoon has hammered northern Japan, leaving at least 22 people dead and injuring hundreds, causing blackouts in more than a million homes and forcing thousands to evacuate.
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A winter storm that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of Midwest homes and businesses moved into the East on Monday with a dicey mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain
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Large parts of Scandinavia have suffered power cuts and traffic chaos following a severe winter storm.
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Frigid temperatures contributed to four deaths Sunday, pushing the toll from a devastating ice and snow storm to 19 as hundreds of thousands waited another day for their electricity to be restored.
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Another wintry blast was forecast Friday for the nation's midsection, where hundreds of thousands are still in the dark after a deadly ice storm brought down power lines, snapped trees and coated roads.