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Taliban security personnel stand guard as a cargo train carrying humanitarian aid arrived from Turkey at Roznak station in Herat province on September 25, 2025.

UN: ‘Humanitarian Efforts Jeopardized by Taliban Blackout’

TEC News / AFP September 30, 2025

The Afghanistan crisis is heightened by its rulers imposing control on essential services and financial networks—in the form of an organised communications blackout.

Lights Out, Europe: The Cost of Brussels’ Energy Fantasy

Javier Villamor May 24, 2025

Spain’s blackout wasn’t a glitch—it was a warning.

Chinese Hide Sabotage Devices in Solar Power Inverters, U.S. Officials Claim

Michael Curzon May 15, 2025

Europe’s reliance on Chinese green technologies is “damaging, immoral and a security threat,” a Slovak MEP commented.

Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez addresses the media during a press conference at the end of a Special European Council on Ukraine and European defence in Brussels on March 6, 2025.

Sánchez May Paint Blackout as Security Threat To Ask for Defense Funds

Javier Villamor April 30, 2025

It would not be the first time the socialist leader attempts to twist the definition of defense to fund non-military projects.

Loss of city lights on the Iberian Peninsula after the massive power outages across Spain and Portugal.

Iberian Blackout: Renewables at Fault, But Leaders Deflect

Michael Curzon April 30, 2025

Brussels says it will learn from this week’s power outages, but is convincing no one if it sticks with fanatical net zero targets.

Buxadé: Socialist PM “Wrecked Spain’s Power Grid”

TEC News April 30, 2025

Vox politician Jorge Buxadé said the Spanish will never know the cause of the blackout because prime minister Sánchez “is a liar.”

South African Group To Set Up its Own Energy Infrastructure

Tadhg Pidgeon January 25, 2023

In the face of crumbling energy infrastructure, one civil rights group is looking to establish its own power provider.

Austria Hit by Multiple Power Outages Amid Blackout Fears

David Boos December 24, 2022

Several large-scale power outages within the span of a few days have hit Austria. While officials blame the problems on technical defects, worries of a blackout caused by the volatility of the electrical grid abound.

Light in the Darkness: How Ukraine’s Transcarpathia Survives the War

Milán Constantinovits December 20, 2022

Heating, lighting, and electricity come and go in Transcarpathia, plunged into uncertainty and darkness as a result of the war in Ukraine. However, the Ukrainian community that lives on the other side of the Hungarian border struggles to live on.

Tag: blackouts

UN: ‘Humanitarian Efforts Jeopardized by Taliban Blackout’

Lights Out, Europe: The Cost of Brussels’ Energy Fantasy

Chinese Hide Sabotage Devices in Solar Power Inverters, U.S. Officials Claim

Sánchez May Paint Blackout as Security Threat To Ask for Defense Funds

Iberian Blackout: Renewables at Fault, But Leaders Deflect

Buxadé: Socialist PM “Wrecked Spain’s Power Grid”

South African Group To Set Up its Own Energy Infrastructure

Austria Hit by Multiple Power Outages Amid Blackout Fears

Light in the Darkness: How Ukraine’s Transcarpathia Survives the War

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