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SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook said it had restored service following an outage on Thursday that hindered access to the social platform and its other apps such as Instagram."Earlier today, people may have experienced trouble accessing Facebook´s family of apps. The issue has since been resolved, we are back to 100 percent for everyone and we´re sorry for any inconvenience," a company spokesman said in a statement.Facebook blamed "an issue in one of our central software systems" for snarling connectivity for several hours.Many users, often wryly, took to Twitter to comment on the crash.Downdetector, which monitors outages on the internet, said users of all Facebook platforms started having trouble at 1345 GMT.As is often the case with these outages, this one seemed to hit randomly around the world, with some regions affected and others not.Facebook says it has 2.45 billion active monthly users across its array of products. from The News International - World https://ift.t...

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LONDON: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday declined repeated invitations to apologise to Britain’s Jews after the country’s most senior rabbi suggested anti-Semitism was a "new poison" within the main opposition party, which had been "sanctioned from the very top".Corbyn was asked several times in a BBC television interview if he would like to offer his apologies to the British Jewish community over his perceived failure to clamp down on the problem within the left-wing party."What I’ll say is this: I am determined that our society is safe for people of all faiths," Corbyn said."I don’t want anyone to be feeling insecure in our society and our government will protect every community against the abuse they receive." In an unprecedented intervention ahead of the December 12 snap general election, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis suggested Corbyn was "unfit for high office".Labour has been dogged by allegations about widespread anti-Semitism...

BAGHDAD: Two protesters were shot dead in Baghdad on Wednesday and other Iraq cities were shrouded in acrid smoke from burning tyres as demonstrators pressed their campaign of anti-government rallies.Masked youths sealed off streets with makeshift barricades across the restive south as schools and public offices stayed shut. "The government has lost all its legitimacy. We don’t want them," said one protester in the southern city of Basra."They meet every day and claim to be discussing our demands, but we expect nothing from them." For nearly two months, Iraq’s capital and south have been gripped by the largest protests since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.In central Baghdad, young demonstrators donned helmets and medical masks to face off again with security forces unleashing tear gas. Iraqi medical and security sources said at least two demonstrators were shot dead in Baghdad as protesters and security forces clashed.An AFP correspondent repor...

GLASGOW: First Minister Nicola Sturgeon pledged fresh votes on Brexit and Scottish independence on Wednesday, as she launched her party’s general election manifesto.Sturgeon, who leads the left-leaning secessionist Scottish National Party, aims to hold the balance of power in Britain after the December 12 UK snap general election.She accused the main UK-wide parties of delivering "constant chaos" since the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, when 55 percent backed staying in the United Kingdom. Speaking on a Glasgow podium labelled "Stop Brexit", Sturgeon said: "It is time to take Scotland’s future into Scotland’s hands."She is seeking a second independence referendum in 2020. Of the 650 seats in the British parliament’s lower House of Commons, 59 represent Scottish constituencies and the SNP is defending 35 of them.The SNP hope to be kingmakers in the next parliament. Sturgeon has said that while she would not align with Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ...