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- A major global outage affects Amazon, disrupting hundreds of platforms
- Donald Trump and Anthony Albanese meet at the White House and sign a deal on critical minerals
- In football, a first World Cup win for Morocco
Services are in the process of coming back online after hundreds of websites and apps were affected by a global outage.
Snapchat, Reddit and chat app Signal are among the popular services affected, while in Europe, several major mobile phone operators, some U-K banks, Whatsapp and Tinder were also affected.
Amazon's cloud services unit AWS says it is still experiencing "significant error rates" and that engineers are "actively working" on the problem.
New York University cybersecurity expert Ed Amoroso says it could take time before the root cause is identified.
"It's sort of like an airplane pilot when there's a little bit of a problem, the first thing you do is fly the plane. So the first thing they need to do is get their arms around their systems and get them operational. Then at that point, you sort of, the pilot would say navigate, you make sure that you've got a good plan. And that's when you start to communicate out what the issues were, what the problems are. My guess is they're somewhere between getting their arms around this and then starting their plan for further fixes and for avoidance."
The turmoil is the largest internet disruption since last year's CrowdStrike malfunction hobbled technology systems in hospitals, banks and airports, and highlights the vulnerability of the world's interconnected technologies.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has met United States President Donald Trump in Washington D-C, with the pair signing a rare earths and critical minerals deal.
Both countries have agreed to invest a combined A$13.05 billion in critical minerals projects, including an immediate contribution of $A1.5 billion each into Australian and US projects.
Mr Trump says he deal had been in negotiation for around four to five months.
"In about a year from now, we'll have so much critical mineral and rare earths that you won't know what to do with them. They'll be worth about $2. But in the meantime we're working with Australia and other countries. They're working with us too. But other countries also on that. But we're really working on anything having to do with military, military protection, military ships, vehicles, guns, ammunition. Everything."
President Trump has also agreed to honour and expedite the AUKUS security deal, which will supply nuclear-powered submarines to Australia.
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Gaza humanitarian aid delivery has restarted, a day after Israel resumed a fragile ceasefire.
There is a concern among Palestinians about how much aid Israel is letting into Gaza - a key part of the agreement.
Palestinians, including women and children, queued outside a distribution centre in Khan Younis to receive boxes of food and supplies.
Raafat al-Qarra says he wishes aid packages were bigger - or delivered more frequently.
"It's not enough for anything, it's only enough for four or five days for a family of six people. If the aid (package) was bigger than this, or even (delivered) weekly, it would be better. You can see how expensive prices are becoming, and we cannot afford to buy anything."
The next stages of the ceasefire are expected to focus on disarming Hamas, Israeli withdrawal from additional areas it controls in Gaza, and future governance of the devastated territory.
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An inquest has heard a 34-year-old Indigenous mother of three was sedated four times in one day by medical staff before dying of a toxic overdose.
The coronial inquest into the death of Kumunjayi Brogus, who died in Alice Springs hospital on November 23, 2023, got underway yesterday.
Ms Brogus suffered from schizophrenia and was in the grips of a psychotic episode in the days before she died.
In an opening statement, the Counsel assisting the Northern Territory Coroner Elisabeth Armitage has alleged Ms Brogus was "given so many drugs for sleeping that it caused her to stop breathing".
The inquest will examine if the care provided by N-T Health was appropriate and sufficient.
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In football, Morocco has become the first Arab nation to win the under-20 World Cup after beating Argentina 2-0 in the final in the Chilean capital, Santiago.
Yassir Zabiri opened the scoring in the 12th minute with a free kick and doubled Morocco's lead 17 minutes later from a close-range shot.
Argentina, who holds the record with six titles, lost a final for the second time after their defeat by Brazil in 1983.
The roar from the Moroccan fans was deafening at the full time whistle, as heard on FIFA's match commentary.
"And there it is! What a story! It's Morocco's Cup! It's Africa's Cup."
