Top 10 world news: Microsoft global IT outage; Bangladesh student protests, and more
Top 10 world news
Amid ongoing students' protests in Bangladesh,rioters stormed a jail on Friday in the central district of Narsingdi and freed the prison's inmates before setting the facility on fire. The largest IT outage in global history was reported today.From aviation to banking to infrastructure, various industries in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas have been affected. The outage was reportedly caused by a disruption in the cloud services of Microsoft. In other news, US President Joe Biden's campaign chairhas insisted that the president is "absolutely" staying in the race and remains capable of defeating the GOP leader.
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Bangladesh student protests: Demonstrators storm prison, free hundreds of inmates
Students in Bangladesh protesting thegovernment's job quota system stormeda prison and freed hundreds of inmates on Friday (July 19)as police struggled to quell unrest.
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