Tag: Electric Light and Power
Power Is Restored in Spain and Portugal After Widespread Outage
The traffic lights flashed from red to green again. The subways were running in Madrid and Lisbon. And waiters were serving food and...
Widespread Power Outage Hits Spain and Portugal
A major power outage hit Spain and Portugal on Monday afternoon, abruptly shutting down daily activities, halting trains and subways, cutting off traffic...
Trump Signs Executive Orders Aimed at Reviving U.S. Coal Industry
President Trump signed four executive orders Tuesday aimed at expanding the mining and use of coal in the United States, in an effort...
Chile Declares Curfew as Power Outage Sweeps Country
Chile’s government imposed a curfew on Tuesday and sent the army and national police officers to patrol the streets in response to a...
$35 Billion Loan Project, Led by the World Bank, Aims to...
The leaders of more than half of Africa’s nations gathered this week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s sprawling seaside metropolis, to commit to...
Storm Eowyn Leaves a Third of Ireland Without Power
Hundreds of thousands of people were without power on Friday in Ireland, an extraordinarily high number for the small country, as a powerful...
