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  • Hurricane Ida traps Louisianans, shatters the power grid

    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Rescuers in boats, helicopters and high-water trucks brought hundreds of people trapped by Hurricane Ida's floodwaters to safety Monday and utility repair crews rushed in, after the furious storm swamped the Louisiana coast and ravaged the electrical grid in the stifling, late-summer heat.
  • Options limited, North Korea lit by flashlights, creaky grid

    PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People's Republic Of - More than 20 years after his father almost bargained them away for a pair of nuclear reactors, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has his nuclear weapons — and a nation still plagued by chronic blackouts.
  • Disgruntled French steel workers turn to populist Le Pen

    HAYANGE, France - Two things now grow around the rusting carcasses of the last blast furnaces in this French steel town: weeds, and votes for populist Marine Le Pen.

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