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Good morning and welcome to Kid News.

I'm Kim.

Today is Tuesday, April 29th, 2025. And we begin with a suspected rare atmospheric phenomenon, cutting power and pitching millions of Europeans into darkness. At the center of the blackout, Spain and Portugal, which share a power grid. And authorities say, while some electricity has come back

online, it could take a week or more to get everything back up and running. At its height, it caused

travel chaos as trains stopped and traffic lights went out. Schools, stores, and ATMs went dark.

Even the Madrid tennis tournament came to a halt. Officials do not think the cause was a

cyber attack. More likely, one grid operator says, is the weather in Spain. Professor Keith Bell

says the outage is a reminder of how vulnerable electricity systems are. As he told the BBC,

there's at least one major power outage on the scale of this one

somewhere in the world every year.

Even so, the head of one Spanish power provider called yesterday's short-circuiting,

exceptional and extraordinary.

A date to begin selecting the next pope is set.

The super secret conclave will start inside the Sistine Chapel on May 7th. 135 cardinals from around the world will meet, debate, and vote.

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