Financial Times, New York Times, Bloomberg News, and Guardian websites have crashed for reasons unknown.
Multiple websites operated by news outlets including the Financial Times, CNN, and Bloomberg News were down across the globe on Tuesday.
Qatar-based Al Jazeera Media Network was also affected. France’s Le Monde started showing error messages that appeared on the websites at around 10:00 GMT.
Separately, Amazon.com Inc’s retail website also seemed to face an outage. Amazon was not immediately available to comment.
Britain’s Guardian newspaper said its website and app were being affected. Sites of some other British news media were also not immediately loading. The UK government’s main website too was unavailable.
The BBC and The New York Times were temporarily inaccessible, but later returned.
Messages such as “Error 503 Service Unavailable” and “connection failure” appeared.
The issue affecting the websites was not immediately clear.
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SOURCE: NEWS AGENCIES
