Strange. It's not working here either. Can't tracert to news or news-europe. Last known to be working for me approx 8am Wednesday although I only noticed it later that day. Not a peep on 119 or 563. Not a client issue this end as it's perfectly fine when connecting via VyprVPN. It's almost as if there's some routing issue inbetween.

I'm having the same problem.

news.giganews.com works fine and the European server works if I use a VPN.
Sky blocking or they have routing issues for the past few days...?

news-europe.giganews.com

1 vl201.gw2.ams.giganews.com (216.196.110.2) 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms
2 vl304.gw1.ams.giganews.com (216.196.108.218) 0 ms vl303.gw1.ams.giganews.com (216.196.108.210) 0 ms vl304.gw1.ams.giganews.com (216.196.108.218) 0 ms
3 195.69.144.117 (195.69.144.117) 8 ms 9 ms 9 ms
4 bu4.er10.thlon.ov.easynet.net (89.200.135.144) 8 ms 8 ms 12 ms
5 ip-89-200-134-1.ov.easynet.net (89.200.134.1) 7 ms 7 ms 23 ms
6 * * *
7 * * *
8 * * *
Max number of unresponsive hops reached (firewall or filter?)

Doubt Sky would block, especially not just the European server. Probably just a routing issue

As I said no problems from here Sky LLU Unlimited
news.giganews.com
1 gw1-g-vlan201.dca.giganews.com (216.196.98.4) 33 ms 102 ms 0 ms
2 xe-0-2-0.was12.ip4.tinet.net (213.200.84.77) 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms
3 xe-0.equinix.asbnva01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (206.223.115.12) 0 ms 1 ms 0 ms
4 ae-2.r23.amstnl02.nl.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.145) 90 ms 96 ms 90 ms
MPLS Label=301616 CoS=0 TTL=0 S=1
5 po-2.r01.amstnl02.nl.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.101) 215 ms 302 ms 292 ms
MPLS Label=572 CoS=0 TTL=0 S=1
6 xe-3-1.r01.londen01.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.249) 87 ms 84 ms 84 ms
MPLS Label=20 CoS=0 TTL=0 S=1
7 xe-4-2.r00.londen01.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.225) 108 ms 270 ms 208 ms
8 bu1.er10.enslo.ov.easynet.net (83.231.199.162) 88 ms 92 ms 84 ms
9 89.200.133.205 (89.200.133.205) 98 ms 98 ms 92 ms
10 cr1.wwfalm.uk.easynet.net (87.87.225.115) 95 ms 102 ms 103 ms
11 * * *
12 *

news-europe.giganews.com
1 vl201.gw1.ams.giganews.com (216.196.110.3) 1 ms 0 ms 0 ms
2 195.69.144.117 (195.69.144.117) 14 ms 8 ms 7 ms
3 bu4.er10.thlon.ov.easynet.net (89.200.135.144) 9 ms 7 ms 7 ms
4 89.200.133.205 (89.200.133.205) 17 ms 17 ms 17 ms
5 cr1.wwfalm.uk.easynet.net (87.87.225.115) 18 ms 19 ms 19 ms
6 * * *
7 * * *
8 * * *
Max number of unresponsive hops reached (firewall or filter?)

I'm having the same problem. Only moved to Sky on wednesday and the only way i can access Giganews is via VPN. It's a bit of an annoyance but on the plus side at least VPN is working on Sky. It never did for O2!