{"id":7164,"date":"2025-05-24T16:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T16:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/cannes-parts-of-southern-france-suffer-major-power-outage-probe-underway\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T16:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T16:19:16","slug":"cannes-parts-of-southern-france-suffer-major-power-outage-probe-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/cannes-parts-of-southern-france-suffer-major-power-outage-probe-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannes, Parts Of Southern France Suffer Major Power Outage, Probe Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"ignorediv\">\n                                        <!-- Story Text --><br \/>\n                                                                                                                        <b class=\"place_cont\">Cannes: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>French police were investigating a possible arson attack as being the main cause for a power outage which hit the Alpes-Maritimes region in southern France on Saturday, including Cannes which is hosting its world-famous annual film festival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are looking into the likelihood of a fire being started deliberately,&#8221; said a spokesperson for the French national gendarmerie, adding that no arrests had been made at this stage.<\/p>\n<p>The local authority for the Alpes-Maritimes region had said earlier on Saturday that the western part of the area, which includes Cannes, was suffering from a major electricity outage and that RTE France was working on restoring power.<\/p>\n<p><!--MIDTABOOLA--><\/p>\n<p>The Cannes Film Festival said the closing ceremony would take place as planned on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Palais des Festivals has switched to an independent power supply, allowing all scheduled events and screenings, including the Closing Ceremony, to proceed as planned and under normal conditions,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>                                                                                <!-- Featured Video --><br \/>\n                                                                                                                        <!-- Recommended Widget -->\n                                                                                                                    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannes: French police were investigating a possible arson attack as being the main cause for a power outage which hit the Alpes-Maritimes region in southern France on Saturday, including Cannes which is hosting its world-famous annual film festival. &#8220;We are looking into the likelihood of a fire being started deliberately,&#8221; said a spokesperson for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7166,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions\/7166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}