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Police are investigating if a death is linked to Telstra's nationwide outage on Wednesday.
South Australian detectives have confirmed an individual died at a regional hospital on Wednesday but police had not been notified of the death.
The original report had come from South Australian Liberal Senator Kerrynne Liddle, who said her office was told an elderly South Australian woman had died during Wednesday's outage.
Australian Communications Consumer Action Network C-E-O Carol Bennett has called for more reform to ensure customer safety and Triple O access.
"That's a lot of people potentially put at serious risk of harm. Now, this system cannot continue this way. We do need to uplift the system and ensure that private companies who are ensuring public safety are held to account and are delivering on the standards that we all expect should be in place.”
India has promised to return the remains of a First Nations ancestor to Australia.
The ancestor is currently held in the Government Museum of Chennai, but an agreement has been reached for them to be sent back to their Traditional Custodians.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has also announced the voluntary return of several items of cultural significance to India.
The items were previously held in the collections of the National Gallery and Art Gallery of New South Wales.
The United Nations is calling on the United States and Iran to return to diplomacy after the collapse of a three-week ceasefire.
Iranian armed forces have launched attacks on US military targets in Gulf states following US strikes on Iran's southern coastal and eastern provinces, which Washington says was in retaliation for Tehran hitting commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric says diplomacy remains the only way forward.
"This tit-for-tat needs to stop, right? A return to diplomacy is urgently needed. ... And I think all of the parties involved need to understand that the best way to end this conflict is a return to the negotiating table."
New suspected Ebola cases have been reported in previously unaffected parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
More than 1,700 cases have been confirmed since the outbreak was declared in May, and the death toll has reached 600.
The Africa Centres for Disease Control says the new suspected cases have been detected in the provinces of Tshopo and Haut-Uele, beyond the outbreak's epicentre in the eastern province of Ituri.
Africa CDC epidemiologist Dr Wessam Mankoula says investigators are looking into how the virus has spread.
"The investigation is still going on to know the source of these cases. Is it infected in other province then came to Kisangani or it has been infected in Kisangani? So case investigation is still going on."
At least 28 people have been killed in a factory fire in China.
To sport and in World Cup news,
France is through to the semi-finals after a 2-nil quarter-final win over Morocco.
Goals from Kylian Mbappé and Ousmane Dembélé sealed the result, ending Morocco's impressive tournament run.
