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Officials are investigating the cause of the outages, while smaller blackouts were also reported in France and Andorra.
A blackout has brought much of Spain and Portugal to a standstill, affecting millions of people. The Spanish power distributor calls it “exceptional and extraordinary." ...
How airport chaos unfolded as cause remains ‘unknown’ - Exclusive: The definitive sequence of events behind a shutdown that ...
Electricity has returned to Spain and Portugal, but the cause of Monday's widespread blackout remains a mystery. It was one of Europe’s most severe blackouts.
A massive power outage has knocked out electricity across parts of Spain and Portugal, shutting off traffic lights and causing chaos at airports, train stations and on the roads.
The power outage that severely disrupted life in Spain and Portugal on Monday is being blamed on two possible solar plant breakdowns, a report said.
Monday's still-unexplained power outage was the most severe ever to hit Spain and Portugal, which have a combined population of around 60 million people. According to The Associated Press ...
A massive, unprecedented power outage hit large parts of Spain as well as Portugal on Monday. The blackout halted subway and railway trains, cut phone service and shut down traffic lights and ATMs ...
Spain and Portugal have asked the European Union to step in to push for more power interconnectors with France, after a ...
The blackout that swept across Spain and Portugal last month, leaving millions in the dark, may have seemed far removed from ...
“Total power outage across Spain and Portugal… Currently waiting for a train to Valencia but EVERYTHING on pause… Now we wait,” he wrote. Some have jumped on the suggestion that Spain’s ...
• Emergency declarations: While the supply of electricity is gradually returning to parts of Spain and Portugal, the two governments declared states of emergency tonight after a massive outage.