Huge power outages have hit major cities across Spain and Portugal. Flights, traffic lights, trains, phone networks and card payments have been affected, with reports of panic-buying at supermarkets.
REN, Portugal’s grid operator, has said the outage that’s affected the country was caused by a fault in the Spanish electricity grid, related to a "rare atmospheric phenomenon".
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