power outage

A major power outage struck southeastern France on Saturday morning, throwing the glamorous Cannes Film Festival into temporary disarray as it prepared to award its top prize. Authorities say about 160,000 households across the Alpes-Maritimes region lost power after a high-voltage line fell. The outage, which lasted for several hours, has sparked an arson investigation after a fire was reported at an electrical substation near Cannes overnight.

Millions of people in Spain, Portugal, and parts of France have been plunged into darkness as power outages swept across the countries.

​On April 16, Puerto Rico experienced an island-wide blackout, leaving all 1.4 million power customers without electricity.