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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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Mass arrests at Sydney festival

MASS arrests have been made at a Sydney dance music festival as part of a special police operation.

World

--FILE--Prisoners watch TV at a prison in Shenzhen city, south China's Guangdong province, 8 May 2014. China plans to grant prisoner amnesties to mark this year's commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, only the eighth time this has happened since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Xinhua news agency said on Monday (24 August 2015). Four categories of prisoners who do not pose a threat to society will be given a special amnesty, Xinhua quoted Li Shishi, head of the Chinese parliament's standing committee's legislative affairs commission, as saying. That will include prisoners who fought in the war against the Japanese and the civil war against the Kuomintang army, or who fought in wars post 1949 to protect the country’s sovereignty, security and territorial integrity, or who are older than 75 and those with physical disabilities unable to care for themselves, Xinhua said. Those who committed crimes while under the age of 18 and who received a maximum sentence of three years in prison, or those whose remaining prison term is less than one year are also included, Xinhua said. It did not say how many people would be set free as a result of this amnesty, and Li said that exceptions will apply to people convicted of serious crimes such as murder, rape, bribery or terror offenses. There have only been seven previous instances of these special amnesties, Xinhua said. The move is in line with international practice and will help increase confidence in efforts to boost the rule of law, it added.

Inside China’s brainwashing centres

CHINA’S brainwashing facilities are so secret they don’t officially exist. But the horror that goes on inside their walls is all too real.

World

Protesters in Hyde Park, Sydney today protesting to help end the 8 year persecution of Falun Gong in China. Pic - Sam Mooy

Extreme torture in China’s prisons

ELECTRIC shocks and limb stretching. These are just some of the punishments dished out on innocent people in China’s jails.

World

September 11 in pictures

IT’S been 15 years since the world watched on in horror as the worst terror attack in US history unfolded. The pictures are just as shocking today.

Real Life

CREDIT: GETTY ONLINE USE ONLY UNSPECIFIED - 1932: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), German statesman. Colourized photo. (Photo by Roger Viollet Collection/Getty Images)

Kid dressed as Adolf Hitler wins prize

A STUDENT dressed as Adolf Hitler for Book Week has been awarded a best dressed prize — while Jewish students were visiting the Alice Springs school.

technology/environment

PESCARA DEL TRONTO, ITALY - AUGUST 25: Rubble surrounds damaged buildings on August 25, 2016 in Pescara del Tronto, Italy. The death toll in the 6.2 magnitude earthquake that struck around the Umbria region of Italy in the early hours of Wednesday morning has risen to at least 247 as thousands of rescuers continue to search for survivors. (Photo by Giuseppe Bellini/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

‘I can predict natural disasters’

BEFORE every major earthquake and volcanic eruption for the past 40 years, Charlotte King says she experienced the same sensation.

World

‘Zorro’ with plastic sword shuts down LAX

A MAN wearing a Zorro costume was detained after passengers were seen running from LA Airport yelling, “Get out … run!”

Gold Coast

‘Zorro’ with plastic sword shuts down LAX

A MAN wearing a Zorro costume was detained after passengers were seen running from LA Airport yelling, “Get out … run!”

National

Girl X carved ‘I hate feelings’ into her leg

TRAGIC details have been revealed about the young girl who was allegedly raped in foster care and died of a drug overdose.

National

Aerial of Darwin city looking out over to Darwin Harbour in the Northern Territory.

What the Northern Territory is really like

IT’S often imagined as the “wild west”. But here’s why the Northern Territory is vastly different to how most Australians perceive it.

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