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No indications the major power outage in Spain and Portugal was a cyber-attack

# European Council president António Costa says there are no clear indications of sabotage or a cyber-attack after large parts of Spain and Portugal experienced major power outages on Monday. The outages shut off traffic lights caused chaos at travel hubs, and cancelled all tennis matches at the Madrid Open. The Portuguese electricity operator says the outage was caused by a rare atmospheric phenomenon related to temperature variations. It adds that the network could take up to a week to normalise again fully.