An estimated 370 million people — about 60 million more than live in the U.S. — were without power for at least part of today in northern India because of a massive failure in the country’s power grid. It was “one of the worst blackouts to hit the country in more than a decade,” The
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Fox News July 27, 2012 UNITED NATIONS –  U.N. member states have failed to reach agreement on a new treaty to regulate the multibillion-dollar global arms trade. Some diplomats and treaty supporters blamed the United States for triggering the unraveling of the month-long negotiating conference. Hopes had been raised that agreement could be reached on
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