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Mass IT outage hits airports, businesses and broadcasters around the world


Major carriers, including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, all issued ground stops Friday morning citing communications issues.

Major airlines, medical facilities, businesses and police forces around the world are currently being affected by a massive information technology glitch caused by a problem with Microsoft cloud computing services early Friday. Passengers face black screens at Berlin's main airport Friday morning.Christoph Soeder / APThe Paris Olympics organizing committee told Reuters that while the outage was slowing its operations, its ticket sales remained unaffected. That was just one of many businesses affected across the United Kingdom, with train operators blaming IT outages for cancellations Friday morning and the London Stock Exchange saying that a “3rd party global technical issue” for stopping its regulatory news service posting any new items.

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