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- Amazon server outage affects Reddit, other websites
- Riot at Sydney, Australia's Villawood Detention Centre continues
- France, Italy, UK sending military advisers to Libya; photojournalists killed in Misrata
- Security forces open fire on anti-government protestors in Syria
| Amazon server outage affects Reddit, other websites Posted: Friday, April 22, 2011 Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) experienced outages Thursday, taking down major websites, including Reddit, Foursquare, Hootsuite, and Quora. The company reported on its Web Services "Service Health Dashboard" that it first noticed "instance connectivity, latency and error rates" at 1:41 a.m. PDT (08:41 UTC) Thursday morning. The outage, which occurred at Amazon's northern Virginia data center, affected some of the company's US EC2 clients for much of the day. EC2, which hosts thousands of websites, is an elastic cloud computing platform. More...   |
| Riot at Sydney, Australia's Villawood Detention Centre continues Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2011 A riot at Sydney's Villawood Detention Centre continued Thursday with six protesters remaining on the roof after the centre was set alight late last night in a protest involving up to 100 detainees. Nobody has been injured in the protest. Nine demountable buildings were destroyed in the blaze, which is being described as an "act of desperation" from asylum-seekers that had been held at the centre for up to two years. Firefighters were pelted with roof tiles and other debris as they struggled to contain the fire. More... |
| France, Italy, UK sending military advisers to Libya; photojournalists killed in Misrata Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2011 France and Italy have announced along with the United Kingdom that they will be sending military advisers to help Libyan rebels in their fight against the forces of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. More... |
| Security forces open fire on anti-government protestors in Syria Posted: |
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