Massive power outage at Cannes Film Festival
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Al Jazeera on MSNArson attack probed as Cannes and parts of southern France suffer power cutPower restored after outage hit the prominent film festival on its closing day and affected 160,000 homes in the area.
The Cannes Film Festival closing ceremony got underway Saturday after a major power outage struck southeastern France due to what police suspected as arson.
Spain and Portugal have asked the European Union to step in to push for more power interconnectors with France, after a massive power outage hit the Iberian Peninsula last month, a letter seen by Reuters showed.