68 h. ago Germany boosts Nato’s eastern flank with new Baltic brigade amid threat from Russia – Europe live

Friedrich Merz visits Lithuania to mark the official formation of Germany’s first permanent overseas military unit since the second world warPortugal wants European energy regulators’ agency ACER to lead an independent investigation into the causes of the huge power outage that brought most of Spain and Portugal to a standstill last month, its acting energy minister told Reuters.Maria da Graça Carvalho said prime minister Luís Montenegro wants an independent investigation led by the European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators to complement the technical report being prepared by the European network of transmission system operators ENTSO-E. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Infrastructure probe to look at why transport ‘brought to a standstill’

‘It’s clear we need to do more to improve the resilience of our transport energy infrastructure,’ Paul Kohler MP warned.

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1 week ago Stansted Airport travel chaos: Up to 10,000 holidaymakers miss flights as IT meltdown sparks mass delays with queues stretching outside terminal

Travellers at Stansted Airport faced 'utter carnage' after an IT failure brought operations to a standstill with Jet2, TUI, and Ryanair among the airlines affected by the chaos.

Transport

2 w. ago Emily In Paris' Lily Collins surprises castmates as she brings baby to set four months after birth

Emily In Paris star Lily Collins brought her cast mates and crew to a standstill after she brought her four month old daughter to the set of the popular Netflix drama

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2 w. ago Moment Bank Holiday traffic is brought to a standstill on motorway... because of a goat

Motorists were left stunned this morning when the brown goat was seen darting across the lanes of the M5 between Taunton and Weston-super-Mare in Somerset.

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3 w. ago Power on British tourist hotspot fully restored following mass blackout

The blackout comes just days after Spain and Portugal were brought to a standstill

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3 w. ago British tourist hotpot hit by mass blackout days after Spain and Portugal outage

The blackout comes just days after Spain and Portugal were brought to a standstill

Events

3 w. ago Snake on a train line: Japan’s busiest bullet train route brought to a halt

Outage occurred between Maibara and Gifu-Hashima stations after the snake appeared to have climbed an electricity poleJapan’s busiest bullet train line was brought to a halt on Wednesday after a metre-long snake wrapped itself around a power line, shorting the electricity supply and stranding hundreds of passengers.Shinkansen trains running between Tokyo and Osaka were brought to a standstill by the snake, with news reports showing footage of people inside trains waiting for services to resume. Power did not appear to have been cut inside trains, with lights and air conditioning still functioning, according to passengers. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago No 10 rejects ‘unfounded claims’ that renewables were behind power cuts in Spain

Widespread power cuts brought Spain and Portugal to a standstill on Monday.

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3 w. ago Could blackouts hit UK? Reviews of infrastructure resilience as power outages hit Spain and Portugal

Parts of Spain and Portugal were brought to a standstill on Monday when power cuts switched off traffic lights, left people unable to access cash machines and caused chaos at airports

Events

3 w. ago UK reviews infrastructure resilience after power outages hit Spain and Portugal

Parts of Spain and Portugal were brought to a standstill on Monday when power cuts switched off traffic lights, left people unable to access cash machines and caused chaos at airports

Events

3 w. ago Disgruntled French workers encouraged to arrive late in protest over pension age rise

Artists created an AI ‘minister of latecomers’, who encourages people to compensate for years lost, and a tool calculating exactly how late to turn upChanges to France’s pension system have been a hot potato for French presidents for decades, bringing disgruntled people on to the streets, leading to civil unrest and nationwide strikes that have brought the country to a standstill.Two years ago, in the face of bitter opposition, Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, passed a law raising the general retirement age from 62 to 64 and the issue appeared to have been put to bed. Continue reading...

Economics

3 w. ago Everything currently broken in Spain and Portugal’s mass power outage

The two countries have been brought to a standstill by the power outage which could last for many more hours

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