Brazil Blackout: Two Largest Cities Hit By Massive Power Outages
RIO DE JANEIRO — A massive power failure blacked out Brazil’s two largest cities and other parts of Latin America’s biggest nation for more than two hours late Tuesday, leaving millions of people in the dark after a huge hydroelectric dam suddenly went offline. Paraguay was also affected when the Itaipu dam straddling the two nations’ border stopped producing 17,000 megawatts of power, resulting in outages in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and at least several other big Brazilian cities, Brazilian Mines and Energy Minister Edison Lobao said.
Buzzing: Iran Nuclear Program:
by Jon Brooks Searches on “Iran” were up this weekend and for the entire week, as were “Iran map,” “Iran president” “Israel-Iran” and “Iran nuclear program.” It’s this last topic, specifically, that captured the attention of the Buzz on Sunday, after the New York Times revealed an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) analysis that Iran had acquired “sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable” atom bomb. The Institute for Science and International Security, meanwhile, posted actual excerpts from the internal IAEA document.
