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5 days ago | 
aol.co.uk | Sam Jones
The former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has launched a blistering attack on Israel, accusing its government of committing genocide in Gaza and “carrying out the largest ethnic-cleansing operation since the end of the second world war in order to create a splendid holiday destination”.
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5 days ago | 
eldiario.es | Sam Jones
A pesar de las conjeturas de los vaticanistas, los perfiles publicados y la revisión de declaraciones pasadas, pocos parecen tener claro qué piensa el cardenal Robert Francis Prevost —ahora conocido como el papa León XIV— sobre los grandes asuntos de actualidad. Pero hay alguien que lo conoce mejor que la mayoría: su hermano mayor, John Prevost.
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5 days ago | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Sam Jones
Robert Francis Prevost, 69, chosen as the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Roman Catholics and who has taken the papal name Leo XIV, is not widely known despite a long missionary career and senior roles in the Vatican. Here are five things about him. He is the first US popeAlthough 10 of the 133 cardinal-electors at this week’s conclave were American, there had long been reticence about the notion of a US pontiff.
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6 days ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Sam Jones
Robert Francis Prevost ‚Äď who has chosen the papal name Leo XIV ‚Äď may not be the Latin American Jesuit wildcard that his predecessor, Pope Francis, was, but his election is similarly historic. In the figure of the 69-year-old former head of the Augustinian order, the Roman Catholic church has its very first US leader. Until Thursday evening, the idea of the fisherman‚Äôs ring being slipped on to a North American hand was seen as a fairly distant possibility.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Sam Jones
Spain’s environment minister has warned against attempts to blame Monday’s unprecedented blackout across the Iberian peninsula on the increasing use of renewable energy, defending the reliability of the national grid and promising a “complete audit” to establish the causes of the outage.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Sam Jones
Spain and Portugal are quickly returning to normality as experts seek to determine the cause of the largest power cut in Europe’s recent history, which plunged cities into darkness and left tens of thousands of people trapped on trains. By Tuesday morning, all of Spain’s electricity substations were up and running, and 99.95% of the country’s power supply had been restored.
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2 weeks ago | 
aol.co.uk | Sam Jones |Ashifa Kassam |Jon Henley
Lights flickered back to life across most of Spain and Portugal on Tuesday after a massive blackout hit the Iberian peninsula, stranding passengers in trains and elevators while millions lost phone and internet coverage. Electricity had been restored to nearly 90% of mainland Spain by early on Tuesday, the grid operator REE said. Power was restored overnight to around 6.2m households in Portugal out of 6.5m, according to the national electricity grid operator.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Sam Jones |Ashifa Kassam |Jon Henley
Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has said “everything possible is being done” overnight to restore power to all parts of the country following an unprecedented regional blackout which left tens of millions of people across the Iberian peninsular without power. Speaking late on Monday night, Sánchez said the idea was to get the power back on across Spain on Tuesday, adding that 50% of the national electricity supply had been restored in the past few hours.
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2 weeks ago | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Sam Jones
Archaeologists excavating the site of a former fish market in Barcelona have uncovered the remains of a large medieval boat that was swallowed by the waters off the Catalan capital 500 or 600 years ago. The area, which is being dug up in order to build a new centre dedicated to biomedicine and biodiversity, has already yielded finds ranging from a Spanish civil war air-raid shelter to traces of the old market and of the city’s 18th-century history.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Sam Jones
Pope Francis, who died on Monday morning at the age of 88, will be laid to rest on Saturday in Rome. His funeral is expected to draw dignitaries from across the world, as well as tens of thousands of faithful. This is what is expected to happen on the day, and what may come next for the Catholic church. When and where is Pope Francis’s funeral? The funeral will be held in St Peter’s Square in Rome at 10am local time.
