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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Bart H. Meijer and Sabine Siebold

'Pro-Russia' hackers down EU Parliament website for hours

A general view shows as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addresses her first State of the European Union speech during a plenary session of the European Parliament as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in Brussels, Belgium September 16, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman

The European Parliament's website was unavailable for several hours on Wednesday due to a denial-of-service attack by "Pro-Kremlin" hackers, after its lawmakers designated Russia a state sponsor of terrorism, the institute's president said.

The parliament's website was up again shortly after 1700 GMT, around two hours after the institution had reported the outage.

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