live Iran expands attacks on Gulf states after U.S. strikes, says Strait of Hormuz is closed
The United States and Iran have significantly escalated their conflict, exchanging heavy missile and drone strikes across the Gulf region. Iran claim...
Thousands of users in the United States, some parts of Europe and South America on the X (formerly twitter) platform have reported being unable to access the site due to Cloudflare outage.
According to website Downdetector which collates user reports and tracks outages with it, there were more than 5,600 reports of issues with the social media platform.
The website also reports that users indicate problems with X accounts in varying degrees, ranging from inability to access site, inability to post or receive messages and accessing the X app and website.
Although the bulk of complaints come in from America, downdetector also shows that users in Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Colombia also have trouble accessing the X app.
Users are also currently unable to visit sites such as ChatGPT, Canva and other lesser known websites with some pages displaying "internal server error codes".

Cloudflare is an IT service management company that helps websites secure and manage their internet traffic.
The content delivery Networks typically routes url requests from users to their desired servers, an action which it is currently unable to process.
The company is yet to release a statement regarding Tuesday's near global network failure and its cause.
Elon Musk's X appears to be the worst hit causing the website's estimated 600 million active users from accessing it.
The 4th Shusha Global Media Forum will bring together nearly 160 media leaders, experts and officials from 54 countries in Azerbaijan's historic city of Shusha on 13-14 July, to discuss journalism’s role in peacebuilding, restoring public trust and tackling challenges.
The U.S. has launched fresh strikes on Iran after Tehran targeted a container ship and said it had again closed the Strait of Hormuz. Iran also claimed to have expanded attacks on U.S. military facilities across the Gulf.
Typhoon Bavi, the strongest storm to hit the eastern coast of mainland China this year, brought heavy rain, strong winds, flooding and landslides after making landfall in Zhejiang province on Sunday. More than 2.8 million people were evacuated to safety ahead of the storm.
President Ilham Aliyev is holding his annual question-and-answer session with international journalists at the 4th Shusha Global Media Forum in Azerbaijan.
Qatar is mourning the death of its former ruler, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who has passed away at the age of 74.
The UK has announced a fresh round of sanctions against individuals and organisations it says are responsible for cyber attacks and hybrid operations linked to Russian intelligence, in a move aimed at countering efforts to destabilise Europe.
A 93-year-old British woman has died after being injured in wildfires that swept through southeastern Spain's Almeria province, regional authorities said, bringing the confirmed death toll to 13 people.
More than 10,000 excess deaths were recorded across 27 European countries during a record-breaking heatwave in late June, with older people accounting for the vast majority of the toll, according to official mortality data.
An overnight fire at a popular bar in Bangkok has killed at least 27 people and injured 63 others, making it one of the deadliest pub disasters in the Thai capital in recent years. Authorities say the venue quickly filled with thick smoke, trapping patrons inside.
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