Extreme weather conditions and an ageing power grid, which needs immediate upgrades, are behind power interruptions across the US.
Winter storm brings miserable combination of heavy snows, freezing rain and high winds, officials say, impacting southeast and coastal mid-Atlantic before moving up to New England and southern Canada.
The dramatic number of new victims is still a potential undercount, as officials continue investigating deaths that happened around the time the storm knocked out power to more than four million customers.
At least one protester died and eight more were wounded after police opened fire on anti-loadshedding demonstrators. Temperatures hit record highs in Pakistan as people observed fasts in the holy month of Ramadan.
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