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Telecoms outage cuts off millions of Australians
AFP, Published on 08/11/2023
» SYDNEY - More than 10 million Australians were cut off from internet and phone services on Wednesday after unexplained outages struck one of the country's largest communications companies.
Communications cut to flood-ravaged Libyan city
AFP, Published on 19/09/2023
» DERNA, Libya - Telephone and internet links were severed Tuesday to the flood-hit city of Derna, a day after hundreds protested there against local authorities they blamed for the thousands of deaths.
Meta confirms WhatsApp outage, working to restore service
AFP, Published on 25/10/2022
» PARIS: US tech giant Meta confirmed a global outage was affecting its messaging service WhatsApp on Tuesday and said it was working to restore the app "as quickly as possible".
Facebook grapples with another global outage
AFP, Published on 09/10/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook on Friday said users around the world again had problems accessing its services for hours due to a tweak of its system, just days after a massive outage caused in a similar fashion.
Why did Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp shut down?
AFP, Published on 06/10/2021
» PARIS: Hundreds of millions of people were unable to access Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for more than six hours on Monday, underscoring the world's reliance on platforms owned by the Silicon Valley giant.
Facebook fights global outage and whistleblower revelations
AFP, Published on 05/10/2021
» WASHINGTON - Facebook battled dueling crises on Monday as it tried to fix a large-scale outage of its dominant social network and fought against a whistleblower's damning revelations.
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by widespread outage
AFP, Published on 05/10/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were hit by a massive outage Monday, impacting potentially tens of millions of people as users flocked to other networks to sound off.
Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger down in major outage
AFP, Published on 20/03/2021
» PARIS: Social media platforms Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger all went down in a major outage at around 1730 GMT on Friday, according to the tech monitoring website Downdetector.
Fresh bloodshed in Myanmar as UN set to meet on crisis
AFP, Published on 05/03/2021
» YANGON: A protester was shot dead in Myanmar on Friday in the latest round of bloodletting at anti-coup demonstrations, as the UN Security Council prepared to meet on the escalating crisis.
Twitter experiences brief outage
AFP, Published on 12/07/2019
» WASHINGTON: Twitter was once again available Thursday after the messaging service went down for about an hour in several spots around the world.