Hello and welcome to our national news live coverage for Thursday, July 9. Here’s what’s making headlines today.
Telstra outage: Just hours after the telco said it resolved an outage that crippled its mobile services for much of yesterday, Telstra was urgently investigating a second network fault on Wednesday night that was stopping some calls from connecting, including to Triple Zero.
Transport: As a result of the Telstra outage, Victoria’s V/Line services will continue to be affected this morning, and in NSW, regional trains on parts of the Southern Highlands line and Hunter line are being replaced by buses for a second day.
Middle East at war: The US military has launched fresh strikes on Iran. It comes just hours after US President Donald Trump said the ceasefire was over following Iranian attacks on American military sites in the Gulf.
Politics: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indian counterpart Narendra Modi are set to strike a breakthrough deal to unleash a surge of Australian uranium exports to India. Modi, one of the world’s most powerful leaders, arrived in Melbourne on Wednesday night for meetings with Albanese on Thursday.
State of Origin: NSW defeated Queensland 30-12 on Wednesday night’s decider at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium.
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