2 h. ago Power back on in Chile after blackout leaves millions in dark

Electricity restored to almost all affected regions as investigation under way into how outage occurredPower has been restored to most of Chile’s 19 million people after the country’s most disruptive blackout in 15 years, the government said, as authorities lifted a strict curfew imposed when the outage left 98% of the population without electricity.Chilean interior minister Carolina Tohá said on Wednesday that electricity had largely returned to Chile’s 14 afflicted regions, although 220,000 residents remained without power. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Incredible moment Chile residents emerge from devastating nationwide blackout

Stunning video footage captured the moment electricity returned after a mass blackout plunged millions across the country into darkness.

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5 h. ago Country on verge of collapse as 19million people hit by nationwide blackout

A nationwide blackout has caused traffic chaos, metro closures and meant a country-wide curfew has been put in place in Chile. The Interior Minister has called for calm until the problem is solved

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25 h. ago Chile hit by nationwide blackout, forcing Santiago metro evacuations

Chile’s biggest blackout in 15 years hits from Arica to Los Lagos, testing one of South America’s top power gridsA sweeping blackout has hit Chile, stranding commuters, paralyzing countless businesses and leaving most of the South American country without electricity. The government did not immediately offer an explanation for the widespread power failures that left millions of people without electricity all the way from the northernmost Chilean port of Arica to the southern Los Lagos agricultural region. Chile’s national disaster response service, Senapred, reported only that a “disruption in the supply of electricity” had provoked a “massive power outage” across more than a dozen regions in the country, including Chile’s capital of Santiago, where authorities said there would be no subway service until further notice. The country’s electricity distributor, Saesa, which serves more than a million people across Chile, confirmed that a nationwide power failure had affected all of its...

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59 h. ago See the birth of a new ICEBERG: Incredible images reveal the moment a berg the size of Chicago broke away from Antarctica's George VI Ice Shelf

A newborn iceberg called A-84 looks like a tiny ice cube as it tumbles along the Antarctic Peninsula in a fascinating new animation from NASA Earth Observatory.

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3 d. ago Watch the incredible moment Olympic gold medallist rescues people trapped in cars and STRANDED in floods

An Olympic gold medallist answered the call of duty as he rescued cars of people who had been caught in flooding.

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7 d. ago Incredible moment fearless rescuers save boy, 16, trapped 50ft deep in a vertical mineshaft after his rope broke

Footage shows how selfless rescuers reached the 16-year-old boy and pulled him out of the crevice after securing him into a harness.

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8 d. ago Incredible moment passenger films himself scrambling to safety from inside upside down Delta jet crash in Toronto

Footage captured by survivor Pete Koukov showed terrified passengers crawling out from one of the aircraft's side doors as a brave cabin crew member guided them.

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8 d. ago Incredible moment Toronto plane crash survivor films himself being rescued from upside down Delta aircraft: Live updates

LIVE UPDATES: A Delta plane crash-landed at Toronto's Pearson international airport on Monday injuring at least eight people.

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