A nationwide phone network has shut down in Spain just weeks after blackouts brought chaosand heavy financial damage to the country.

Emergency services in a number of regions had to provide new telephone numbers for those in need, after phone lines collapsed following network upgrades by Telefonica.

Landline telephones were the worst affected but all voice services by Telefonica appear to have been affected to some extent, according to reports in Spanish media.

A Telefónica spokesperson said: “We have done some network upgrade work which has affected some companies' fixed communication services (voice and internet).
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POLITICO: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday called on other countries to work with the U.S. on global health outside of the World Health Organization, as he rejected the pandemic agreement WHO members just adopted.

But President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the organization on his first day in office and stopped paying dues. Kennedy said the Trump administration is in contact with like-minded countries interested in cooperating outside the WHO, which works to combat disease across the world, and encouraged others to join them.

Trump, who believes the pandemic began with an accident at a Chinese government virology lab, blames the WHO for helping to cover it up.

Kennedy accused the WHO of caving to pressure from China to suppress reports that the coronavirus that caused the pandemic was transmitted among humans, in the early days of the outbreak.

The health secretary also alleged that the WHO “worked with China to promote the fiction that Covid originated from bats or pangolins, rather than from Chinese government-sponsored research at a biolab in Wuhan.”

The WHO has rejected both accusations. And while three U.S. agencies — the Department of Energy, the FBI and the CIA — have said a lab leak likely caused the pandemic, there’s no scientific consensus about it, with many virologists still pointing to a spillover of the virus from animals to humans as more plausible.
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JUST IN: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has launched a full review of the failed U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Senior advisor @SeanParnellUSA will help lead a newly formed Special Review Panel to investigate.

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5 years ago, it would take months for a true scandal to develop.

Nowadays it happens in about 72 hours.

It’s not an accident that this trend is taking place.

5GW

https://nypost.com/2025/05/20/us-news/joe-bidens-wh-doctor-tied-to-ex-prezs-shady-brother-as-cancer-cover-up-rumors-mount/

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JUST IN - George Wendt, famous for his role as Norm in “Cheers,” has died. He was 76.

@insiderpaper

In the following short video, you will see how effective the “Ghost Army” was in WWII at using visual deception to fool the enemy.

Keep this in mind next time we call something out as “fake”.

And remember: “The whole world is a stage”.

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