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The Local (thelocal.es) 

How would Spain react if there was a major blackout?

Doomsday series and fake news have made the prospect of a national and Europe-wide outage seem outlandish, and yet we come close to such a critical event. How would Spanish authorities react if there was a days-long power cut?

Business Standard 

Wimbledon Cup 2024: Alcaraz, Sinner, Swiatek, Gauff taking over tennis

There is a real shift happening at the top of tennis, a youth movement that long seemed inevitable but never actually arrived until now. As the sport's attention shifts to the grass of Wimbledon, where play begins Monday, Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff are the players whose names are on everyone's lips. Alcaraz is the defending men's champion and owner of three Grand Slam titles at the age of 21 after his triumph at the French Open. Sinner, 22, is the top-seeded man at Wimbledon and won the Australian Open in January.

Raw Story 

'Failure is not an option': Joe Scarborough questions if Biden is 'up to the job'

Reflecting on Thursday night's presidential debate between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, MSNBC "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough suggested the president may "not be up to the job" after his halting performance.

On Friday morning, a grim-faced "Morning Joe" panel uniformly expressed dismay at Biden's performance, with Scarborough pronouncing it "tragic."

Addressing the panel, Scarborough began, "Well, I think I should start by saying, without any apologies, that I love Joe Biden and Jill... Читать дальше...

France24.com (en) 

Von der Leyen, Costa and Kallas endorsed for the EU's top jobs: What happens next?

European Union leaders agreed to nominate Ursula von der Leyen of Germany for a second five-year term as president of the European Commission at a summit in Brussels, where they also picked former Portuguese premier Antonio Costa as the future chair of European Council meetings and Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas as the next EU foreign policy chief. France 24's Dave Keating takes a look at what happens next.

The Wall Street Journal 

ECB's Villeroy Says Bank Can Disregard Inflation 'Bumps'

Policymakers at the European Central Bank should place less weight on data pointing to increases in measures of inflation that are likely to prove transitory given the greater reliability of economic forecasts over recent quarters, the governor of the Bank of France said.