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A street in the city of Point-a-Pitre on the French Caribbean island of Guaedloupe in April. Photo: AFP / CEDRICK-ISHAM CALVADOS France's overseas territory of Guadeloupe was entirely without power on Friday, with authorities blaming striking workers for the outage. Workers at the territory's thermal power station in the industrial zone of Jarry entered the command room "and caused an emergency shutdown of all the engines", the Guadeloupe prefecture said in a statement. Restored electricity supply for the 230,000 affected households was expected at 8am - 3pm local time - at best. Police intervened and the archipelago's prefect had "requisitioned" staff to bring the station back up to speed, it said. The French government has mobilised "services and operators" to bring power back as soon...

Photo: CLIVE MASON/Getty Images via AFP Chinese hackers who tapped into Verizon's system were targeting phones used by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance, the New York Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The newspaper said investigators were working to determine what communications, if any, were taken. The Trump campaign was made aware this week that Trump and Vance were among a number of people inside and outside of government whose phone numbers were targeted through the infiltration of Verizon phone systems, it added. The campaign did not confirm that Trump's and Vance's phones were targeted. Steven Cheung, the campaign's communications director, said the former president's Democratic rival Vice President Kamala Harris has ...

By Amanda Ferguson, Reuters Alexander McCartney was given a life sentence in a Belfast court. Photo: PSNI / AFP A Northern Irish man was given a life sentence for the mass online child sexual abuse and blackmail of young girls around the world, with police saying one incident led to a 12-year-old American girl and her father taking their own lives. Belfast Crown Court heard that 26-year-old computer science student Alexander McCartney, operating from the bedroom of his family home, groomed victims on messaging sites including Snapchat and Instagram by making them believe they were talking online to a teenage girl of similar age. He would then encourage them to send indecent images or engage in sexual activity via a webcam or mobile phone, which he would then share online with others ...

Photo: supplied Review - The Western view of modern Iran is hardly flattering - a nation permanently at war perhaps, run with the sort of religious fundamentalism that made Oliver Cromwell so disliked? But when we see Iranian films - Iran is an enthusiastic producer of both art-films for foreign festivals and commercial films for home consumption - there seems to be a definite disconnect. My Favourite Cake may be about the difficulties faced by Iranian women - especially older women. But to look at, it could be any city in the Western world. The shops, the clothes, the cars and the people - at a distance it looks like New Zealand, albeit New Zealand 30 years ago, maybe. We meet Mahin - aged about 70 and long-time widowed, now living alone. Her social life is mostly limited to phone calls...