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U.S. State Department email restored after global outage

State Department email service has been restored after a nearly 12-hour worldwide outage hit (Photo: Courtesy)

The U.S. State Department's email service has been restored after an approximately half-day outage, spokeswoman Heather Nauert said on Friday.

State Department officials worldwide stopped receiving emails on the agency's unclassified system around 2 a.m. EDT (0600 GMT) on Friday, officials said. Service was temporarily restored by the early afternoon, Nauert said.

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