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Israel has announced that the remains of three hostages have been handed over from Gaza, as a fragile month-old ceasefire with the terror organisation Hamas continues to hold.

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Optus executives will be hauled before a Senate inquiry today where they will be grilled about the telco's triple-0 outage. Follow live.

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