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- Thousands without power as a storm lashes the east coast of Australia;
- Qantas confirms a cyber breach at a call centre for the airline;
- The Wallabies unveil their new test jersey, designed by Wiradjuri winger Dylan Pietsch.
Emergency services have taken nearly 750 calls this morning alone, as wild weather lashes Australia's east coast.
Crews have conducted seven flood rescues on the New South Wales south coast - all caused by people driving into floodwaters - while an estimated 200 homes on Burrill Lake have been inundated.
Endeavour Energy says more than 17,000 homes and businesses from western Sydney down to the Illawarra are without power, and several flights have also been cancelled from Sydney Airport for the second consecutive day.
Helen Reid, from the Bureau of Meteorology, says the impacts will continue into the evening.
"There is a severe weather warning for damaging and damaging winds and heavy rainfall, which extends across the New South Wales coastal fringe from Foster to Bega into the alpine areas of parts of the southern tablelands and the northern tablelands as well. Damaging winds remain possible today across the warning areas. Most likely this morning, with average gale force wind gusts around 60 to 70 kilometres an hour with gusts getting up to 90 to 110 kilometres an hour."
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Cyber hackers have gained access to data belonging to six million Qantas customers after breaching a call centre.
The airline says it first caught wind of the attack when it detected unusual activity on a third party platform used by a Qantas airline contact centre on Monday.
Qantas says it's still investigating the extent of the breach but expects it to be significant.
But it says no credit card details, financial information or passport details were held in the system that was compromised, and no frequent flyer account details, including passwords, PIN numbers or log-in details had been accessed.
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Five Australian citizens have flown out of Iran as a ceasefire between the country and Israel continues to hold.
The group have travelled on a commercial flight from Mashhad in the nation's north-east to Dubai with Australian government assistance.
More than 50 other Australians have successfully crossed the border by land and have been met by Australian officials, while more than 150 have received border codes for Azerbaijan.
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The Israeli military has acknowledged Palestinian civilians have been killed at controversial aid distribution points in Gaza.
The Palestinian health ministry has estimated more than 500 Palestinians have died seeking aid from sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, with local medics and witnesses saying 11 people died in the latest incident.
Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, says his government accepts some civilians have been killed but disputes the number of casualties.
"Unfortunately, there were a few incidents. But I can tell you one thing for sure, the numbers that were reported by Hamas were not correct - they were lies. They try to create the impression that it's not safe and people should not go there."
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Hundreds of protestors have clashed with police in Istanbul after a rally to mark the hundredth day since former Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was detained before being dismissed from office.
Riot police have pushed protestors back and used pepper spray to disperse them, while plain clothes officers detained those who did not leave the area after the scuffles.
Mr Imamoglu was set to be the key opposition candidate in upcoming presidential elections, and his detention and subsequent arrest on terror charges - which he denies - have been likened to a coup.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan maintains the courts are independent, but this protester - who declined to give their name - believes otherwise.
"We are here today to be against the lawlessness and for the arrested mayors, and the animosity of the police against students, for all the country, even for the police, for everyone."
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Foreign Minister Penny Wong has met her U-S counterpart on the sidelines of a meeting of the Quad alliance in Washington.
Senator Wong says she made the case for a tariff exemption for Australia, as well as discussing defence arrangements to counter rising global conflict.
She says Marco Rubio did not raise Australia's defence budget, and the discussions were on regional stability more broadly.
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To sport,
The Wallabies have unveiled their latest Test jersey, designed by Wiradjuri winger Dylan Pietsch.
The jersey will debut this weekend in time for NAIDOC Week - and will be worn across the Wallabies' three match test series against the British and Irish Lions.
Pietsch says it's a great reminder for rugby fans to try and engage in the First Nations culture on the land in which they live.
"I implore people to really just acknowledge and research Aboriginal history, because it is such a beautiful thing. We're not asking you to go over beyond, just acknowledge the land you're on. There's so much history and so much knowledge throughout it."
