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Strong winds and heavy rain pounded parts of the Northeast, knocking out power to nearly 400,000 customers and diverting international flights.

There are reports of power outages and damage Saturday in the aftermath of a 6.5-magnitude earthquake that struck off California's northern coast.

Brazil emerged Wednesday from a widespread power outage that plunged as many as 60 million people into darkness for hours, prompting security fears and concern from residents about another black eye for a country hosting the 2016 Olympic Games....

Typhoon Melor was gathering strength as it traveled along Japan's southern coast with sustained winds of about 100 miles per hour, causing power outages and disrupting air and train travel.

At 8 a.m. today, nearly 6,400 customers of the Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives remain without power that was cause by last week's winter storm, said Michelann Ooten, spokeswoman for the state Department of Emergency Management.
Lake Region Electric Cooperative reported 250 outages. Ozarks Electric Cooperative reported just more than 6,100 outages.
At the height outages, about 40,000 customers across the state were without power.see more on NewsOK.com

More than half a million Kentuckians remained without power Saturday after a devastating ice storm hit the state earlier this week, Gov. Steve Beshear said. Ice-laden power lines and tree branches still drooped heavily Saturday, and temperatures remained below freezing.