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Power cut caused by technical fault affects the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Electricity to the Danish island of Bornholm was cut off on Wednesday due to a technical fault that caused an undersea cable to be disconnected, authorities said.

The power supply was cut off at 10:16 a.m. (0916GMT). Police on the island, which is located off the southern coast of Sweden in the Baltic Sea, said that power was expected to be restored no later than Wednesday night.

They cautioned that water supplies may be affected as long as the outage continues. A police statement didn’t elaborate on the nature of the technical fault.

The local power supplier, Trefor El-Net Øst, initially said that a fault in the cable between Bornholm and Sweden was to blame. However, Denmark’s energy infrastructure company, Energinet, said in a statement that there hadn’t been a fault with the cable itself and that Bornholm was ready to be supplied from Sweden again.

Emergency services started up a power plant in Rønne to help restore the supply, TV2 reported.

Beijing bans 4 New Zealand lawmakers from entering China because they visited Taiwan

By WTOP Staff
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Beijing banned four New Zealand lawmakers from traveling to China for a year and demanded they apologize because they visited Taiwan on a parliamentary trip, according to a message from the Chinese embassy conveyed via parliamentary officials and shown to The Associated Press on Thursday. China has hit lawmakers from other countries with sanctions related to contact with Taiwan before, but it's the first time for New Zealand parliamentarians, the government in Wellington said. Beijing has been increasing pressure in recent years on the democratically governed island that it claims as its own territory. Two lawmakers reached by the AP on Thursday rejected the demand for an apology, while the other two could not be immediately reached. New Zealand's government said it would express concern about the travel bans to Beijing. The elected officials visited Taipei in May, as New Zealand parliamentarians have done “for decades,” a spokesperson for Foreign Minister Winston Peters said in a statement.
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