Robert Birsel is a Newsweek reporter based in Asia with a focus on political and general news. Robert joined Newsweek in 2025 from Radio Free Asia and had previously worked at Reuters. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics. You can get in touch with Robert by emailing r.birsel@newsweek.com. Languages: English.
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Google is down in multiple countries with core services such as Gmail and YouTube experiencing outages, the tracking website DownDetector reported.
Eastern and South-Eastern Europe reported a high number of outages. There were also issues reported in several U.S. cities, including New York and Chicago.
Newsweek contacted Google for comment on Thursday morning.