Bahrain swelters through power blackout
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MANAMA, BAHRAIN - A power blackout hit the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain on Monday, leaving most of its 600,000 residents sweltering amid humidex readings in the mid-50s.
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad  - Troops secured  buildings against looters and authorities imposed a  dusk-to-dawn curfew as the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada  struggled to recover on Friday from Hurricane Ivan's  devastating strike.
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A violent rainstorm swept across Denmark, south Sweden and Norway on Saturday afternoon, causing seven deaths and over 200,000 families in blackout.
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Almost 180,000 people have been stranded in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan by a return of snow and freezing weather which has blocked roads and caused blackouts, state media said on Sunday.
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A major power outage hit Barcelona on Monday, snarling traffic, hobbling public transportation and knocking out electricity to homes and businesses in much of Spain's second-largest city.
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A mysterious blackout during the hottest week of the year left tens of thousands of New Yorkers without power for a fifth day Friday as residents sweltered, businesses idled and city officials seethed after the power company revealed the outages were 10 times larger than previously reported.
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Rare torrential rains in the United Arab Emirates forced schools to close on Wednesday and created traffic nightmares in the desert country, while neighbouring Saudi Arabia and Kuwait shivered.
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Almost 400,000 northern and central California customers were without power as of 8:30 a.m. PST (11:30 EST/1630 GMT) Friday due to high winds and rainy weather, said utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
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French utility workers are struggling to restore electricity supplies after a hurricane-force storm left six people dead and thousands without power.
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At least 12,000 properties are without power after high winds bring down electricity poles in the West Midlands.
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Almost 180,000 people have been  stranded in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan by a  return of snow and freezing weather which has blocked roads and  caused blackouts, state media said on Sunday.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - The lush vegetation is shredded, the power lines broken like matchsticks and the swimming pool is filled with thick brown mud which cannot hide the bobbing and bloated bodies.
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Electricity went out across Bahrain on Monday, leaving people without air conditioning on a day when temperatures were expected to reach 130, snarling rush hour traffic and sending businesses and the U.S. Navy to their generators.
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National Guard troops stepped up their search for people in hot homes without power to run air conditioning Friday as heavy rains and tree-toppling winds added to the misery of the worst power outage in the city's history.
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How our lives ground to a halt when a storm knocked out power.
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KUWAIT CITY: A nationwide blackout hit Kuwait yesterday, forcing it to shut its three oil refineries and halt exports of refined products like gasoline, but crude production and exports were proceeding normally, top energy officials said.
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MANAMA: A $1.3 billion (BD491 million) combined power, water and petrochemical plant is to be built in Bahrain. The project will create about 3,500 jobs during its construction and 500 in the long-term.