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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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US embassy Kiev, Ukraine. Picture: iStock

US embassy struck in terror attack

A US embassy has been struck by an explosive device that was thrown onto the grounds in an apparent terror attack.

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FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2016, file photo, defendant Michelle Carter is seated inside Taunton Juvenile Court during a pretrial hearing in Taunton, Mass. Jury selection is set to begin Monday, June 5, 2017, in the trial of Carter who is accused of sending her boyfriend dozens of text messages encouraging him to kill himself. (Patrick Whittemore/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool, File)

Boyfriend encouraged to die by text

A YOUNG woman who has been charged with involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her teen boyfriend to kill himself told a friend: ‘It’s my fault’.

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Senator Pauline Hanson asking questions at a Senate Estimates committee at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Hanson’s gag bid successful

PAULINE Hanson has succeeded in her bid to gag former One Nation treasurer Ian Nelson from releasing more secret recordings.

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(FILES) This file photo taken on December 15, 2014 shows an armed policeman seen outside a cafe in the central business district of Sydney during a siege. Police underestimated the threat posed by a self-styled Islamic cleric during a Sydney cafe siege and took too long to storm the building, an inquest found on May 24, 2017, but it absolved them of blame for two deaths. / AFP PHOTO / SAEED KHAN

Cops given shoot-to-kill powers

BREAKING: NSW Police will be granted new ‘shoot-to-kill’ powers against terrorists to combat ‘cowardly, evil acts’ within weeks.

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Rapist: ‘I have been watching you’

A RAPIST who broke into a Melbourne woman’s home taunted the victim before attacking her by divulging what he knew about her from watching.

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Sara Zelenak : Picture : Matt Schoie/Facebook

Mum reacts to daughter’s death

FRIENDS and family who spoke to Sara Zelenak as recently as Thursday have paid tribute to her after she was killed in the London terror attacks.

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TWAM-20161217 EMBARGO FOR TWAM 17 Dec 2016NO REUSE WITHOUT PERMISSIONALEPPO, SYRIA - AUGUST 17: (EDITORS NOTE: Image contains graphic content.) 5-year-old wounded Syrian kid Omran Daqneesh sits alone in the back of the ambulance after he got injured during Russian or Assad regime forces air strike targeting the Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo on August 17, 2016. (Photo by Mahmud Rslan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

First pics of Omran since tragedy

THE little Syrian boy whose dazed and bloodied face became a worldwide symbol of Aleppo’s suffering is today unrecognisable.

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This is an undated handout photo issued Tuesday June 6, 2017 by Metropolitan Police in London of Kirsty Boden who has been named as one of the victims killed in Saturday's London Bridge attack. (Metropolitan Police/ via AP)

Dead Aussie nurse ‘ran towards danger’

AN AUSTRALIAN nurse who moved to England died a hero during the London terror attacks, as her family confirmed the tragic news.

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Violent brawl and multiple stabbings Murwillumbah

Mass brawl victim killed on his birthday

CHARLIE Larter was supposed to be having birthday drinks. Instead he was filmed lying on a nature strip, bleeding to death, after a melee involving 30 people.

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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer looks on as US President Donald Trump speaks during a joint press conference with Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos at the White House on May 18, 2017 in Washington, DC. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON

What happened to Sean Spicer?

THERE is speculation US Press Secretary Sean Spicer might have stepped aside as main press briefer amid rumours of a rift with Donald Trump.

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