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Megan Palin is an award-winning journalist and US Correspondent based in New York. She has covered stories ranging from US presidential elections and high profile trials, to the coronavirus pandemic and human trafficking. But some of her favourite assignments occurred prior to her move to the Big Apple. They include traipsing through the remote regions of Australia with a prolific UFO hunter as he searched for aliens, and spending time with a nomadic Indigenous tribe in the NT Outback.

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(FILES) This video grab taken from handout footage posted on June 24, 2023 on the Telegram account of the press service of Concord -- a company linked to the chief of Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin -- shows Yevgeny Prigozhin speaking inside the headquarters of the Russian southern military district in the city of Rostov-on-Don. Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is still in Russia, Belarus's president said on July 6, 2023, despite a deal with the Kremlin for him to move to Belarus following his failed insurrection last month. (Photo by Handout / TELEGRAM/ @concordgroup_official / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Wagner boss welcomes fighters ‘to hell’

The notorious Wagner Group’s top leaders have appeared in a new video from Belarus promising a new “beginning” for the mercenary group.

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Elton John makes Spacey laugh in sex trial

British rock star Elton John has given evidence as a witness for the defence at the sexual assault trial of disgraced Hollywood star Kevin Spacey.

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Australian TV legend dead at 94

Australia’s first TV weatherman, Alan Wilkie, has died aged 94, just weeks after his fellow broadcaster brother.

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US President Joe Biden (L) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pose during an event with G7 leaders to announce a Joint Declaration of Support for Ukraine during the NATO Summit in Vilnius on July 12, 2023. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Biden and Zelenskyy meet amid tensions

Volodomyr Zelenskyy and Joe Biden have met at the NATO summit after the Ukrainian President called out the alliance’s leaders over their alleged “weakness”.

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(FILES) Madonna attends the Billboard Women in Music 2016 event on December 9, 2016 in New York City. Madonna is recovering after falling ill with a

Madonna breaks silence after health scare

The Queen of Pop has addressed her fans for the first time since her “brush with death” and made an announcement about her upcoming world tour.

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LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 3: American actor Kevin Spacey arrives at Southwark Crown Court to attend his ongoing sexual assault trial on July 3, 2023 in London, England. The Oscar-winning US Actor is charged with 12 counts of sexually assaulting four men in the UK between 2005 and 2013. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Spacey ‘grabbed man on crotch like a cobra’

Hollywood star Kevin Spacey was a “sexual bully” who delighted in making his alleged victims feel “powerless”, a court has heard.

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This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on July 2, 2023, shows Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky attending a ceremony marking the Day of the Naval Forces in Odesa. (Photo by Handout / Ukrainian Presidential Press Service / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Ukraine urges allies to escalate military pledges

Despite Ukrainian forces having some “partial success”, they have failed to produce a major breakthrough.

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A view of the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine on June 15, 2023. (Photo by Olga MALTSEVA / AFP)

Ukraine prepares for potential attack on nuclear plant

Kyiv says it has procedures in place after warning Russia may have planted explosives on reactors to allegedly weaponise a nuclear plant in Ukraine.

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TOPSHOT - A photo shows cars burning in the street at the end of a commemoration march for a teenage driver shot dead by a policeman, in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre, on June 29, 2023. Violent protests broke out in France in the early hours of June 29, 2023, as anger grows over the police killing of a teenager, with security forces arresting 150 people in the chaos that saw balaclava-clad protesters burning cars and setting off fireworks. Nahel M., 17, was shot in the chest at point-blank range in Nanterre in the morning of June 27, 2023, in an incident that has reignited debate in France about police tactics long criticised by rights groups over the treatment of people in low-income suburbs, particularly ethnic minorities. (Photo by Bertrand GUAY / AFP)

Aussie travellers warned of French terror threat

Australians are warned to keep a ‘high degree of caution’ amid nationwide riots, which French President Emmanuel Macron has blamed on TikTok, video games and bad parenting.

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(FILES) This handout photo obtained July 10, 2019, courtesy of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement shows Jeffrey Epstein from a sexual Offender/Predator Flyer in July 25, 2013. JPMorgan Chase reached an agreement in principle to settle a class action lawsuit brought by victims of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking scheme, the parties said on June 12, 2023.

Jeffrey Epstein’s cause of death revealed

The late convicted paedophile’s official cause of death has been determined in a new report almost four years after he was found dead in a jail cell.

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