One of Australia’s biggest telecommunication companies sent emails about a deadly outage to the wrong email address at the Department of Communcations where they remained unread for over a day, parliament has heard.Optus’ emails also underplayed the severity of the 18 September outage, which has been linked to three deaths…
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Elsewhere, there were eight other medals for Great Britain on day one including two golds. Poppy Maskill won her first individual world title in the women’s 200m freestyle S14, with Louise Fiddes also finishing on the podium in third place.There was a British one-two in the Women’s 400m freestyle S8 with Alice Tai edging out Brock Whiston.Ellie Challis won the 12th world championship medal of her career with a second-placed finish in the women’s 50m…
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Great Britain’s Poppy Maskill broke her own world record to win the women’s S14 100m butterfly on the final day of the World Para Swimming Championships in Singapore.The 20-year-old Cheshire swimmer won in one minute 2.58 seconds, lowering the mark of 1:03.00 she set in winning Paralympic gold in Paris…
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Rushdi AbualoufGaza correspondent andKathryn ArmstrongWatch: Trump tells reporters chance of Gaza peace plan deal is “really good”Indirect talks aimed at reaching a final agreement on a US peace plan to end the war in Gaza are set to continue on Tuesday in the Egyptian city of Sharm El-Sheikh. Palestinian and…
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Will GrantMexico, Central America and Cuba correspondentAFP via Getty ImagesTourism is a vital component of the Cuban economyWhen US President Barack Obama stepped off Air Force One onto Cuban soil in 2016, he was one of around four million visitors to the island that year.A record high at the time,…
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Known as the Puyyappla Perukkal (“nurturing the son‑in‑law”), this centuries-old custom sees the groom live in the bride’s house alongside his new mother-in-law as a guest of honour as she and other relatives prepare as many as 100 different dishes for him that rarely repeat during a 40-day period. Each…
