5 d. ago AP PHOTOS: Cuba's energy crisis forces families to find ingenious solutions to get by

For countless families in Cuba, the question is no longer if the power will go out, but when. Constant power outages, coupled with gas shortages, are forcing many to implement ingenious alternatives to sustain daily life as the island undergoes its most severe energy crisis in decades.

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7 d. ago London travel news LIVE: Delays on the Circle, District and Hammersmith and City

A points failure at Edgware Road is causing severe delays on some London Underground lines

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9 d. ago London travel news LIVE: Train chaos as lines blocked after lorry hits railway bridge in Elmers End

London Underground’s District, Hammersmith and City and Piccadilly lines are facing severe delays

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1 week ago London travel news LIVE: Rush hour chaos as several lines facing severe delays

London Underground’s District, Hammersmith and City and Piccadilly lines are facing severe delays

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1 week ago London travel news LIVE: Severe Elizabeth Line delays from Reading due to urgent repairs

Trains on the Elizabeth Line between Paddington and Heathrow and Reading are facing severe delays

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1 week ago London travel news LIVE: Severe Elizabeth Line delays between Paddington and Heathrow due to urgent repairs

Trains on the Elizabeth Line between Paddington and Heathrow and Reading are facing severe delays

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1 week ago London travel news LIVE: Severe Elizabeth Line delays between Paddington and Heathrow due to emergency repairs

Trains on the Elizabeth Line between Paddington and Heathrow and Reading are facing severe delays

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1 week ago Heathrow boss slept through disastrous power outage with his phone on silent

Senior staff at London Heathrow Airport couldn't reach Thomas Woldbye, Chief Executive Officer, to inform him they had decided to suspend operations because of a fire at a substation in Hayes

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1 week ago Heathrow boss sorry for sleeping through outage with phone on silent

Thomas Woldbye missed emergency notifications and phone calls after nearby fire led to airport being shut downHeathrow’s chief executive has expressed his “deep regret” at being uncontactable and sleeping through the power outage that upended the travel plans of 200,000 passengers earlier this year.Thomas Woldbye slept through two emergency notification calls and “several” phone calls from Heathrow’s chief operating officer, Javier Echave, in the early hours of the morning after a fire at a nearby substation knocked out power supplies to the airport. Continue reading...

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1 week ago London travel news LIVE: Windrush line suspended due to 'customer incident' at Whitechapel

London Overground line has been completely suspended

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1 week ago London travel news LIVE: Windrush line suspended during rush hour

A customer incident has caused the entire Windrush line to be suspended

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1 week ago London travel news LIVE: Delays on Gatwick Express, Southern and Thameslink services

A fault with the signalling system at East Croydon disrupted multiple National Rail lines on Wednesday morning

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1 week ago London travel news LIVE: Delays on the Central and Weaver lines

The Weaver and Central lines may cause delays to some journeys

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1 week ago London travel news LIVE: Suspension and delays on the Weaver line

The Weaver line may cause delays to some journeys

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2 w. ago Suspected arson causes a second major power outage in south of France

A second major power outage has hit southeastern France, this time in the city of Nice, after a suspected arson damaged an electrical facility

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2 w. ago French authorities investigate second power blackout in two days

At least 45,000 people affected by ‘malicious act’ in Nice, a day after Cannes film festival disrupted by similar outageFrench authorities have launched an investigation into a power blackout blamed on sabotage that affected at least 45,000 people, just a day after a similar outage disrupted the final day of the Cannes film festival.Authorities in Nice said an electrical transformer had been set on fire in the west of the city in the early hours of Sunday, with power restored later in the day. A day earlier, a separate blaze, believed to have been started by arson, contributed to a power cut that hit Cannes. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Foul play suspected as Cannes Festival hit with power outage that leaves 160,000 homes without electricity

Police have said they are 'looking into the likelihood of a fire being started deliberately' as blackouts cause travel chaos

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2 w. ago Cannes Film Festival is hit by blackout caused by 'sabotage' as police hunt perpetrators

The Cannes Film Festival was briefly brought to a halt following a major power outage that has struck south-eastern France just hours after a fire at an electrical substation overnight.

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2 w. ago Sabotage suspected as Cannes Film Festival struck by major power outage

Cause of the widespread outage is under investigation, with foul play reportedly suspected

Culture

2 w. ago Mountain marvel: how one of biggest batteries in Europe uses thousands of gallons of water to stop blackouts

‘Much-loved’ Dinorwig hydroelectric energy storage site in Wales has a vital role to play in keeping the lights onSeconds after a catastrophic series of power outages struck across the UK in the summer of 2019, a phone rang in the control room of the Dinorwig hydropower plant in north Wales. It was Britain’s energy system operator requesting an immediate deluge of electricity to help prevent a wide-scale blackout crippling Britain’s power grids.The response was swift, and in the end just under million people were left without power for less than 45 minutes. While trains were stuck on lines for hours and hospitals had to revert to backup generators, that phone call prevented Britain’s worst blackout in a decade from being far more severe. Continue reading...

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