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Iraq Announces Nationwide Power Outage Amid 'Record' Heat

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Fews App Post Time 19d ago

An Iraqi man fans his son at his home south of Hilla amid the heat of August AFP Power was out across Iraq on Monday as scorching summer temperatures pushed electricity grid demand to unprecedented levels, authorities said. The outage came amid a heatwave that Iraqi meteorological services expect to last more than a week, with temperatures climbing as high as 50C in parts of the country. Mitigating the grid interruption was the fact that most households rely on private generators, acquired to compensate for daily power cuts to public electricity.

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