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Brazil blackout cause uncertain, president says

November 13, 2009 By The Associated Press BRADLEY BROOKS (Associated Press Writer)

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's president suggested Friday that bad weather may not have caused a massive blackout that left nearly a third of the population without electricity, saying he'll wait for an investigation to conclude how the outage happened.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva backed off earlier claims by his energy minister that strong storms, wind and lightning caused a failure...

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