Australia news live: ‘we’re so sorry,’ Telstra says after major mobile network outages affect trains, Eftpos and triple-zero calls pred 2 urama in 20 minutami CFO says carrier does not yet know root cause of outage, which was national but intermittent. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTelstra outage reported to be cause of Victoria train stoppageThere is a long list of cancelled trains on the official V/line site, but the TL/DR is that Victoria’s regional train network has ground to a halt.Due to a radio network fault affecting the network, services are currently unable to operate …Passengers are advised to defer travel where possible. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
ICE agent fatally shoots motorist during traffic stop in Houston pred 2 urama in 37 minutami Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by immigration enforcement as he was looking to hire workers, his son saysA federal immigration agent fatally shot a driver in Houston on Tuesday morning, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) has said.Agents stopped Lorenzo Salgado Araujo at around 6.50am and tried to arrest him, according to ICE, which described Salgado Araujo as a Mexican national and an “illegal alien” whom the agency was seeking as part of a “targeted enforcement operation”. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Australian house prices are falling but are still almost double what they were a decade ago pred 3 urami in 7 minutami The average dwelling price has risen to more than 17 years of a typical household’s disposable incomeWant to get more charts in your inbox every fortnight? Sign up for The Crunch hereHouse prices have dropped across several Australian capital cities, with major banks predicting falls of 2% to 3% by the end of the year.But after a decade of accelerating house prices, this wouldn’t make a significant dent in housing affordability. Continue reading...(The Guardian)