The blackout swept across the impoverished and energy-starved nation at around noon, after the transmission line experienced a malfunction that led to a cascade of failures throughout the national power grid, said Masum-Al-Beruni of the state-run Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Ltd. Hospitals and the international airport in the capital, Dhaka, were continuing to operate on emergency generators.
The street demonstrations across Ireland organized by the Right2Water campaign are some of the largest since 2008 when the country started raising taxes and cutting spending amid a deepening financial crisis.
Western governments and the United Nations say the vote violates the terms of …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
