Trump says China bears ‘hatred’ for Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai
Donald Trump is due to meet Xi Jinping next week at the Apec gathering in the Chinese city of Shenzhen but the US president is not optimistic about the prospect of Lai's release like how he got some others out.
A global outage affecting Microsoft 365 applications, including Outlook, Teams, and the AI assistant Copilot, disrupted services on Thursday. According to DW News, the outage impacted Microsoft 365 connectors used by OpenAI and Anthropic, which reported that their tools were not working as expected. Downdetector recorded reports from 74 countries and territories, including nearly 130,000 reports of Outlook problems in the US following 1 p.m. EST.
Microsoft stated on X that elevated load on part of its infrastructure was likely contributing to connectivity errors for users attempting to access Exchange Online mailboxes in the Americas. The company noted that some restarted servers stopped responding once traffic returned and reported in a Friday update that recent changes had not worked as expected.
In Hong Kong, the outage disrupted employees in the financial sector on Friday morning. The South China Morning Post reported that bankers at Nomura and Goldman Sachs experienced disruptions, with some staff forced to work offline.
Brief written by urgent.news from South China Morning Post, DW News, DW English (Top Stories), The Guardian, Tokyo Reporter — 5 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
