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It's a huge showroom of more than 75,000 shops where buyers come seeking just about everything, from twinkling Christmas lights and kitchenware to umbrellas and massage guns.

In Spain and Portugal, traffic lights stopped working, metro systems ground to a halt, and businesses were unable to accept card payments - triggering huge queues at the few cash machines that were still working.

But only at night, when you see no lights, can you tell that the apartments are empty.

Local police in Barcelona returned to the old ways, regulating traffic in the Plaça España because the lights were out.

The Israeli military initially said its troops fired on "suspicious vehicles" driving in darkness with their headlights and emergency lights off.