| Ex-CIA Boss John Brennan Tears Into Donald Trump Over Andrew McCabe Firing Posted: 17 Mar 2018 06:15 AM PDT  Former CIA chief John Brennan did not mince his words when taking aim at
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| “Trump is not acting like an innocent man right now” after McCabe is fired Posted: 17 Mar 2018 09:45 AM PDT  Former Deputy FBI Director McCabe fired after Trump demands it
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| Adrian Lamo, Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning, Dies at 37 Posted: 18 Mar 2018 10:02 AM PDT  Adrian Lamo, the computer hacker who reported Chelsea Manning to authorities
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| Russia expels British diplomats amid growing tension after former spy poisoning Posted: 17 Mar 2018 09:03 AM PDT  The move is latest in a growing feud between Russia and the United Kingdom after the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter — with Prime Minister Theresa May saying there is "no alternative conclusion" than Russia being responsible.
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| Engineer's Voicemail Warned State Of Bridge Cracks 2 Days Before Collapse Posted: 16 Mar 2018 09:41 PM PDT  An engineer who helped design the Miami pedestrian bridge that collapsed on
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| NBC/WSJ Poll shows trouble for GOP in key suburban districts Posted: 17 Mar 2018 10:53 PM PDT  President Trump's job approval is up to 43 percent in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, but Republicans are seeing their 2018 prospects worsen.
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| Fire at Manila hotel and casino kills at least 3 workers Posted: 18 Mar 2018 06:17 AM PDT  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A fire engulfed a hotel and casino in the Philippine capital on Sunday, killing at least three employees, trapping two others and forcing the evacuation of more than 300 guests, some by helicopter, officials said.
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| North Korean diplomat heads to Finland ahead of possible U.S. talks Posted: 18 Mar 2018 08:21 AM PDT  By Yuna Park and Joseph Campbell SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) - A senior North Korean diplomat left for Finland on Sunday for talks with former U.S. and South Korean officials, Yonhap News Agency reported, amid a series of diplomatic encounters ahead of a possible U.S.-North Korean summit. North Korea is pursuing its nuclear and missile programs in defiance of U.N. Security Council sanctions and has made no secret of its plans to develop a missile capable of hitting the U.S. mainland. It defends the programs as a necessary deterrent against a possible U.S. invasion.
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| Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar joins St Patrick's Parade Posted: 17 Mar 2018 08:05 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar joined along as Manhattan's Fifth Avenue came alive with the sound of bagpipes, trumpets and lots of green Saturday at the 257th running of New York City's St. Patrick's Day parade.
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| President Trump weighing in on Stormy Daniels case Posted: 17 Mar 2018 10:56 AM PDT  A new Trump legal filing seeks to move proceedings to a federal court. Stormy Daniels is seeking the ability to speak publicly about an alleged affair with the president.
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| Ryan Zinke Defends ‘Konnichiwa’ Comment To Hawaii Congresswoman Posted: 18 Mar 2018 08:25 AM PDT  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke defended his "konnichiwa" response to a House
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| Senate Intel Republican: Trump 'frustrated' by investigation but won't fire Mueller Posted: 18 Mar 2018 06:28 AM PDT  George Stephanopoulos goes one-on-one with Senate Intelligence Committee member Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla.
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| New Massachusetts Bill Would Pull Pension Money From Gun Companies Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:51 PM PDT  In response to the Parkland, Florida, school shooting last month that left 17
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| The Children Of Eastern Ghouta Are Living In Their Own Tombs Posted: 18 Mar 2018 06:01 AM PDT  The people of eastern Ghouta are living in their own tombs. That's what it
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| Astronaut’s DNA different than his twin’s after year in space Posted: 17 Mar 2018 09:08 AM PDT  NASA researchers found that astronaut Scott Kelly experienced molecular changes during his groundbreaking space flight, and while most of his genes returned to normal 7% have not yet changed back.
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| Landmark protest in Angola targets amnesty for 'stolen money' Posted: 17 Mar 2018 08:07 AM PDT  Angola saw its first authorised anti-government protest in decades with about 10 people demonstrating Saturday in the capital against an amnesty those who have stashed vast wealth abroad. Such an event would have been unthinkable during the regime of former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos who ruled the oil-rich country with an iron fist for 38 years until he stepped down late last year. Some of the demonstrators held up portraits of dos Santos' succcessor Joao Lourenco disfigured with red paint.
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| Full Brown Interview: 'Hillary and Trump Ought To Quit Talking About' 2016 Posted: 17 Mar 2018 11:48 PM PDT  Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) appeared on Meet the Press for an exclusive interview to talk about what Democrats need to do, if they want to win over Trump voters.
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| Miami bridge collapse: engineer's answerphone message about crack not heard Posted: 17 Mar 2018 03:55 AM PDT  Homicide detectives opened an investigation on Friday into the collapse of a new footbridge that killed at least six people at Miami's Florida International University (FIU), as questions began to swirl about the companies behind the structure's controversial design and construction. Juan Perez, the director of Miami-Dade police department, said criminal charges were possible once exhaustive inquiries by his detectives and state and federal authorities were complete.
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| Survivors of school shooting take gun control message abroad Posted: 17 Mar 2018 02:57 AM PDT  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Student survivors of the worst high school shooting in U.S. history took their message abroad for the first time on Saturday, calling for greater gun safety measures and sharing with educational professionals from around the world their frightening experience.
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| Is America on the Verge of a Constitutional Crisis? Posted: 17 Mar 2018 03:49 PM PDT ![Is America on the Verge of a Constitutional Crisis?]( "Is America on the Verge of a Constitutional Crisis?") Here is something that, even on its own, is astonishing: The president of the United States demanded the firing of the former FBI deputy director, a career civil servant, after tormenting him both publicly and privately—and it worked.
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| United Flight Diverted After Dog Loaded On Plane By Mistake Posted: 16 Mar 2018 07:42 PM PDT  In the latest bad pet news to hit United Airlines this week, a flight was
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| Australia AG rejects lawyers' bid to prosecute Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Posted: 18 Mar 2018 12:13 PM PDT ![Australia AG rejects lawyers' bid to prosecute Myanmar's Suu Kyi]( "Australia AG rejects lawyers' bid to prosecute Myanmar's Suu Kyi") By Colin Packham and Alison Bevege SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's attorney general said that Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has diplomatic immunity, rejecting a bid by activist lawyers to have her face charges for crimes against humanity over the country's treatment of minority Rohingya Muslims. Lawyer Alison Battisson said she filed the private prosecution on behalf of Australia's Rohingya community on Friday in Melbourne Magistrates Court and had not had a formal response from Attorney General Christian Porter.
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| Full Rubio Interview: On McCabe, ‘I don’t like the way it happened’ Posted: 17 Mar 2018 11:19 PM PDT  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) appears on Meet the Press for an exclusive interview to talk about Fmr. FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and the ongoing Special Counsel's investigation.
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| ProPublica leads media into correction of murky CIA story Posted: 16 Mar 2018 06:45 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The news organization ProPublica issued a detailed correction of a story about Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump's choice for the next CIA director, and the waterboarding of a detainee the year after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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| Nigeria skips African summit in blow to free trade deal Posted: 18 Mar 2018 06:02 AM PDT  Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will not attend the African Union summit in Rwanda this week, an official statement said Sunday, in a blow to plans to launch a major free trade treaty across 54 countries. The meeting in Kigali is intended to formally launch the African Continental Free Trade Area Treaty, which Nigeria's cabinet endorsed last Wednesday. Buhari was scheduled to leave Abuja on Monday ahead of Wednesday's launch but pulled out to allow for more consultations.
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| British Council: Instrument of UK soft power Posted: 17 Mar 2018 09:29 AM PDT  The British Council, whose activities in Russia were suspended by the Kremlin on Saturday, is a registered charity that uses education and culture to spread British soft power internationally. The group said Saturday it was "profoundly disappointed" by the decision, taken amid escalating tensions over the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England. The British Council is a network of cultural and linguistic institutes, with 179 branches in 107 countries, according to its 2017 annual report.
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| Teen Stabbed Friend to Death After Fighting Over Religion at Sleepover, Police Say Posted: 17 Mar 2018 11:17 AM PDT  He had been monitored by federal and other authorities for months
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| Navy's new attack submarine named Colorado joins the fleet Posted: 17 Mar 2018 02:25 PM PDT  GROTON, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. Navy's newest attack submarine, the USS Colorado, joined the fleet Saturday in a ceremony at Connecticut's Naval Submarine Base.
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| John Goodman's Angry Rex Tillerson Spews About Being Fired By A 'Moron' On 'SNL' Posted: 17 Mar 2018 09:34 PM PDT  John Goodman returned to "Saturday Night Live" as booted Secretary of State
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| Diamond and Silk react to Andrew McCabe's job offers Posted: 18 Mar 2018 06:09 AM PDT  Democrats offer fired FBI official Andrew McCabe jobs so that he can retire with his pension; Diamond and Silk speak out.
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| U.S. top court mulls free speech fight over 'crisis pregnancy centers' Posted: 18 Mar 2018 05:27 AM PDT  The Pregnancy Care Clinic in the Southern California city of El Cajon offers a host of services for pregnant women including ultrasound exams, prenatal vitamins and maternity clothes. There is one major exception: abortion. Now the clinic, which staunchly opposes abortion, is among of a group of Christian-based facilities, known as crisis pregnancy centers, involved in a major case that goes before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday.
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| Turkey-backed forces capture Syrian Kurdish town of Afrin Posted: 18 Mar 2018 10:30 AM PDT  ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish military and allied Syrian forces marched into the center of the northern Syrian town of Afrin Sunday, raising their flags and shooting in the air in celebration nearly two months after launching their offensive on the Kurdish enclave. The advancing troops faced little resistance from the Kurdish militia that retreated and vowed to turn to guerrilla tactics.
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| The Maker of the AK-47 Just Released Footage of Its Robot Tank Posted: 17 Mar 2018 06:42 PM PDT  Task and Purpose, Jared Keller
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| Bill Hader Loses It Playing 'Stefon' In His Return As 'SNL' Host Posted: 18 Mar 2018 02:31 PM PDT  Actor and comedian Bill Hader returned to "Saturday Night Live" this weekend
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| Israel bombs Gaza 'underground' complex after blast Posted: 18 Mar 2018 04:32 AM PDT  Israel's military carried out an air raid overnight against an underground Hamas facility in the Gaza Strip and destroyed a separate tunnel under construction that could be used for attacks, it said Sunday. No casualties were reported in either operation, which came after an explosive device was detonated near the Gaza border with Israel, the latest in a string of such incidents. Israel's military said the operation to destroy the tunnel involved new technology it has been developing to detect them.
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| Greeks delve back into Thessaloniki's Jewish heritage Posted: 18 Mar 2018 12:11 PM PDT  Thessaloniki (Greece) (AFP) - "The voices of 50,000 deported Thessaloniki Jews must not be forgotten. Sunday saw residents gather at the city's old railway station in memory of the first of 19 convoys of Jewish residents deported to Auschwitz under Nazi occupation. Thessaloniki had a population of more than 50,000 Jews before World War II some 46,000 of whom were deported and killed at German Nazi death camps.
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| 10 dead as small plane slams into house in Philippines Posted: 17 Mar 2018 03:11 AM PDT  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A small passenger plane carrying five people crashed into a house shortly after takeoff north of Manila on Saturday, killing all those onboard and five people on the ground, officials said.
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| Trump-linked Cambridge Analytica suspended from Facebook after 'harvesting 50 million profiles' Posted: 17 Mar 2018 10:53 PM PDT  A data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump's election team has been suspended from Facebook amid claims it harvested 50 million profiles from the social media site. Cambridge Analytica got information from an academic who was asking Facebook users to fill out surveys via an app as it sought to develop an effective campaigning tool. Around 270,000 Facebook users download the app but it allowed for information about hundreds of their online friends to be obtained without consent, a whistleblower claimed. Christopher Wylie, the former research director at Cambridge Analytica, went public about the alleged behaviour after admitting regret over his involvement. "It allowed us to move into the hearts and minds of American voters in a way that had never been done before," Mr Wylie told Channel 4 News. Elizabeth Denham, the Information Commissioner, said she would be "investigating the circumstances in which Facebook data may have been illegally acquired and used". Donald Trump, the US president Credit: REUTERS/Leah Millis Facebook faced new calls for regulation from within US Congress and was hit with questions about personal data safeguards. "It's clear these platforms can't police themselves," Democratic U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar tweeted. Facebook breach: This is a major breach that must be investigated. It's clear these platforms can't police themselves. I've called for more transparency & accountability for online political ads. They say "trust us." Mark Zuckerberg needs to testify before Senate Judiciary.— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) March 17, 2018 Pulling information from 50 million Facebook profiles reportedly amounts to the tech giant's biggest ever data breach - though that figure is disputed by the company. Channel 4 News, the Guardian and The New York Times all published stories carrying interviews with Mr Wylie around the same time on Saturday. At the heart of the reporting was Cambridge Analytica, a company owned by the billionaire Robert Mercer and once involving Steve Bannon, Mr Trump's ex-chief strategist. The firm specialised in voter-profiling and was involved in US political campaigns in the 2014 mid-term elections and the 2016 presidential race. To improve its models, the firm reportedly worked with the Cambridge University academic Aleksandr Kogan, who had an app that got Facebook users to take a survey. Mr Kogan passed on the data to Cambridge Analytica, though it is disputed whether any privacy rules were broken in this process. Mr Wylie claimed in a Channel 4 News interview that when a Facebook user took the survey, data would be scraped from hundreds of their friend's online profiles without their knowledge. Facebook said that 270,000 people downloaded the app but have not addressed publicly how many others were affected. Mr Wylie, who has since been in legal dispute with Cambridge Analytica, denied he was acting for commercial advantage, saying that he regrets what took place. In a statement, a Cambridge Analytica spokesman denied any wrongdoing. He said the parent company Strategic Communication Laboratories [SCL] hired Mr Kogan to undertake "a large scale research project in the US". He added that SCL later learned Mr Kogan had obtained data in violation of Facebook policies and subsequently deleted all the data. The spokesman added that for the "avoidance of doubt" none of Mr Kogan's data was used in Cambridge Analytica's 2016 election work. Facebook said it was suspending SCL - including Cambridge Analytica - as well as Mr Wylie and Kogan "pending further information". Paul Grewal, Facebook's vice president and deputy general counsel, said: "We are committed to vigorously enforcing our policies to protect people's information. "We will take whatever steps are required to see that this happens. We will take legal action if necessary to hold them responsible and accountable for any unlawful behavior." Facebook by numbers Facebook insisted the data was misused but not stolen, because users gave permission, sparking a debate about what constitutes a hack that must be disclosed to customers. "The lid is being opened on the black box of Facebook's data practices, and the picture is not pretty," said Frank Pasquale, a University of Maryland law professor who has written about Silicon Valley's use of data. Prof Pasquale said Facebook's response that data had not technically been stolen seemed to obfuscate the central issue that data was apparently used in a way contrary to the expectations of users. "It amazes me that they are trying to make this about nomenclature. I guess that's all they have left," he said.
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| Walmart worker tips police to arms cache in New York college town Posted: 17 Mar 2018 11:41 AM PDT ![Walmart worker tips police to arms cache in New York college town]( "Walmart worker tips police to arms cache in New York college town") Authorities alerted by a Walmart worker arrested a former Cornell University student accused of stockpiling a semi-automatic rifle, more than 300 rounds of ammunition, bomb-making materials and other deadly devices at his apartment near the upstate New York elite school. Maximilien Reynolds, 20, of New Jersey, a one-time student at the Ivy League school in Ithaca, New York, now enrolled at a local community college, was federally charged with possession of an unregistered destructive device and a silencer as well as making false statements to acquire a firearm. A Walmart employee contacted authorities after Reynolds used a gift card at the Ithaca store to buy ammunition, camping gear, drill bits, hacksaw blades, knives and other "suspicious" items, according to a criminal complaint filed on Friday.
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| The California Special Ford Mustang GT Returns Posted: 18 Mar 2018 10:50 AM PDT  The West coast state edition pony car is back, this time with a newly refreshed fascia.
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| Sen. Heitkamp: Democratic party far from dead in red states Posted: 17 Mar 2018 03:26 PM PDT  GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, who is facing a tough re-election fight as the only Democratic statewide officeholder in North Dakota, expressed optimism Saturday for the future of her party in conservative-leaning states such as her own.
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| New European sanctions would affect nuclear deal: Iran official Posted: 17 Mar 2018 12:47 AM PDT  Any new European sanctions against Iran will have a direct effect on the nuclear deal struck between world powers and Tehran, Iran's deputy foreign minister said Friday, according to state media. "In case some European countries are following steps to put non-nuclear sanctions against Iran in order to please the American president, they will be making a big mistake and they will see the direct result of that on the nuclear deal," Abbas Araqchi said, according to state media.
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| Fake Prince Albert 'cons Monte Carlo high-flyers' Posted: 17 Mar 2018 07:54 AM PDT  Crooks are impersonating top personalities in Monaco, including even Prince Albert II, to scam money from high-flying victims, according to reports Saturday in the Mediterranean principality. A Prince Albert lookalike had used a video contact supposedly from the ruler's own office to target the Riviera elite, the Monaco-Matin newspaper said. "For several weeks, individuals who are part of organised groups, have been stealing the identities of high-ranking personalities in the principality and trying to establish personal contact with them... notably through electronic messages, SMS or video-conferencing via a WhatsApp type of application," the statement said.
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| At State Department, Heather Nauert's star is ascendant Posted: 18 Mar 2018 01:17 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — When the ax fell on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, his spokeswoman was half a world away, a distance he and his inner circle preferred and enforced.
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| Runaway teen found in Mexico with 45-year-old man Posted: 18 Mar 2018 03:25 PM PDT  Amy Yu, 16, was reunited with her family Sunday in Allentown, Pennsylvania, after being found with 45-year-old Kevin Esterly in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. CBS News correspondent Meg Oliver reports.
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| Bangladesh sentences seven militants to death for killing shrine worker Posted: 18 Mar 2018 03:19 AM PDT ![Bangladesh sentences seven militants to death for killing shrine worker]( "Bangladesh sentences seven militants to death for killing shrine worker") A court in Bangladesh sentenced seven militants to death on Sunday after finding them guilty of killing a shrine worker in 2015, court officials said. Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority country of 160 million people, is facing what appears to be a growing threat of militant violence and has seen a string of incidents in recent years. Shrine caretaker, Rahamat Ali, 60, was hacked to death in November 2015 in the northern district of Rangpur.
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| Britain 'four meals away from anarchy' if cyber attack takes out power grid Posted: 16 Mar 2018 11:00 PM PDT  British cities would be uninhabitable within days and the country is only a few meals from anarchy if the National Grid was taken down in a cyber attack or solar storm, disaster and security experts have warned. Modern life is so reliant on electricity that a prolonged blackout would quickly lead to a loss of water, fuel, banking, transport and communications that would leave the country "in the Stone Age". The warning comes weeks after the Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson, said Russia had been spying on the UK's energy infrastructure and could cause "thousands and thousands and thousands" of deaths if it crippled the power supply. America this week blamed the Russian government for a campaign of cyber attacks stretching back at least two years that targeted the US power grid. Energy and security experts say a cyber attack is one of a number of so-called "black sky hazards" that have the potential to knock out power for days, weeks or even longer across large parts of a country, or even continent. New York during a 2003 blackout Credit: FRANK FRANKLIN II/ AP "I think that is a risk that is very real in the UK and it's also neglected and that sort of scenario could happen anytime, it could happen tomorrow," said Julius Weitzdörfe, who studies the problem at Cambridge University's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. He said: "A lot of people, including in the Government are absolutely unaware what it means, even if we lose electricity for only seven days." He said a previous study by the UK's security services had estimated the country is "four meals away from anarchy" because looting would erupt and civil order would start to break down as soon as people had eaten what they had in their cupboards and fridges. The longer the outage, the worse the situation would get As well as a cyber attack, other black sky risks include extreme weather, an electromagnetic pulse caused by a nuclear detonation in the atmosphere and terrorist attacks on key substations or transformers. One of the most destructive risks would be a powerful solar storm. A previous storm in 1859, now known as the Carrington Event, caused so much geomagnetic disruption that telegraph operators reported sparks bursting out of their machines. Such a storm today could cause havoc to electrical systems. Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom, a former chair of the Commons defence committee who now advises the Electric Infrastructure Security Council, said modern life had complete reliance on electricity. That sort of scenario could happen anytime, it could happen tomorrowJulius Weitzdörfe, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk People and businesses were so used to services and plentiful goods at their fingertips that they were unprepared for shortages and had no back-up supplies. He said: "There's one thing that modern society has come to rely on completely, apart obviously form air, and that's electricity. "Without electricity, modern life would grind to a halt and the complexity of modern society is such that if you take out one or two little pieces of the jigsaw, the whole thing collapses. "If it were lost for a long time, thousands of deaths is really not an overestimate, it's a severe underestimate." One of the biggest problems would be that water supplies and sewage services rely on electrical pumps. "Without electricity a city becomes uninhabitable within a couple of days," he said. Fuel would also quickly run out because it requires electrical pumps, meaning transport and deliveries to shops, hospitals and institutions would quickly cease. As communications like the internet and phones failed, the Government would struggle to tell people what was going on. Lord Harris of Haringey, another adviser to the EIS, said he had taken part in a recent exercise to test how resilient London would be to a major power outage. He said: "What very quickly develops is major failures in just about everything." Most institutions and companies had contingency plans and emergency generators, but they tended to assume they would be rescued by others who still had access to fuel and power. In a major outage that would not happen. He said a major outage was "plausible but unlikely thing to happen. But the consequences if it were to happen are so significant it's worth devoting some time to mitigating the effects." Lord Arbuthnot said the Government had to discuss the problem more openly and recognise it would affect the whole of society, not just public institutions. A spokeswoman for the National Grid said the safe and reliable supply of energy "is our most important job and we have robust systems in place which enable us to monitor, detect and protect our network to keep energy flowing. "We work closely with Government, industry partners and regulators to share information and intelligence to protect our network from current and future threats."
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