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A British mum's holiday turned into a nightmare when she gave birth prematurely in the garden of her hotel during Spain’s power outage chaos. The woman in her early 20s went to her hotel’s...
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Spain and Portugal scramble to restore power as officials chase cause of outage44 minutes agoGabriela PomeroyBBC NewsReutersA sweeping power outage left millions of people in Spain, Portugal and...
The head of a region in Spain says a massive power outage appears to have been caused by a cyberattack. The whole of Spain, as well as parts of Portugal and reportedly France, have been afffected by...