Sicily heatwave brings power cuts, water shortages

Rome (AFP) July 24, 2023

Italian officials held crisis talks Monday on how to manage blackouts in Sicily that have left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity and water for days during a searing heatwave. Civil protection minister Nello Musumeci led the meeting in Catania, where the local mayor said the city had been "brought to its knees" by rolling power cuts. A heatwave that baked swathes of sout