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Several global websites down amid widespread Internet outage
Reddit and other major websites appeared to be down on Jun 8.08 Jun 2021 06:15PM(Updated: 08 Jun 2021 06:29PM)
SINGAPORE: Several international websites were down on Tuesday (Jun 8), including Amazon, Reddit, CNN, The Guardian and The New York Times.
Error messages appeared on the websites at around 1000 GMT (6pm Singapore time).
Britain's Guardian newspaper said its website and app were being affected by the Internet outage.
Sites of some other British news media were also not immediately loading, while multiple websites operated by news outlets including the Financial Times, the New York Times and Bloomberg News appeared to be down across the globe.
Screengrabs of the Amazon and Reddit homepages as seen from a user in Singapore on Jun 8, 2021.
Separately, Amazon's retail website also seemed to face an outage. Amazon was not immediately available to comment.
The UK government website was also down amid the outage.
The issue affecting the sites was not immediately clear.
Source: CNA/Agencies/nh