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Maria Bervanakis is the Morning Digital Editor at News Corp’s Premium National News Network. With more than a decades’ experience at News Corp, she leads a team to produce national and world stories across all masthead titles.

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A handout photo taken on December 21, 2024 and received from the Australian Department Foreign Affairs and Trade shows relief goods being loaded onto a Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster III bound for Vanuatu from RAAF Base Amberley in Queensland. Rescuers say they have expanded a search for trapped survivors in quake-rocked Vanuatu to

More Aussies arrive home as second earthquake hits Vanuatu

Two RAAF flights delivered humanitarian supplies to Vanuatu and brought Aussies home this weekend, as another major earthquake hit the battered island.

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‘Lowest ebb in decades’: Wong blasted over Israel clash

Penny Wong’s angry phone call with Israel’s foreign minister signifies a new low, a shadow minister says.

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HOLLIDAYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA - DECEMBER 10: Luigi Mangione is led into the Blair County Courthouse for an extradition hearing December 10, 2024 in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Mangione has been arraigned on weapons and false identification charges related to the fatal shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City. Mangione is incarcerated in the State Correctional Institution in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania awaiting extradition to New York. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by JEFF SWENSEN / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Shock new charge for CEO shooting suspect

Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old charged with killing a healthcare CEO in New York, has been indicted on terrorism charges.

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The bodies of people killed during an Israeli strike on Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, lie at Al-Ahli Arab hospital, also known as the Baptist hospital, in Gaza City on December 19, 2024, as the war between Israel and Hamas militants continues. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Israeli air strike kills family of 10

An Israeli air strike has killed 10 members of a family including several children in the northern part of the territory, Gaza’s civil defence rescue agency has reported.

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TOPSHOT - A woman walks among rubbles at the site of a missile attack in Kyiv on December 20, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian missiles targeted the Ukrainian capital Kyiv at sunrise on December 20, 2024, killing at least one person and cutting heating to hundreds of residential buildings in cold temperatures. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP)

Russia’s revenge: Kremlin strikes embassies in savage missile attack

Russia has sent a sinister message to the world targeting six foreign embassies in Ukraine with missiles in retaliation for the ongoing supply of western weapons to Kyiv.

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Luigi Mangione, main, and Vester Lee Flanagan II, inset.

Executed CEO’s company linked to another high-profile murder

The execution of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York is not the first time the company has been embroiled in a high-profile murder.

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 12: President-elect Donald Trump walks onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with his wife Melania, after being named TIMEâs âPerson of the Yearâ for the second time on December 12, 2024 in New York City. Trump attended a reception and rang the opening bell on the trading floor. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by SPENCER PLATT / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Trump named ‘Person of the Year’ amid Biden pardon shock

President-elect Donald Trump savaged Kamala Harris as he was named Time magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ for a second time, as Joe Biden delivered the largest single-day pardon in US history.

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US rapper Jay-Z and US singer-songwriter Beyonce attend the world premiere of Disney's

Jay-Z slammed for ‘improper’ move to expose rape accuser

Jay-Z’s attempts to unmask the identity of a woman alleging he raped her as a 13-year-old were ‘improper’, according to the accuser’s lawyer.

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

‘Grave danger’: Scathing Trump security failure report

A congressional taskforce investigating the assassination attempts on Donald Trump has released a scathing report into the Secret Service.

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Shooting suspect’s back pain ‘left him unable to have sex’

A possible motive is emerging in the assassination of a healthcare CEO in New York, as the suspect had an outburst on his way into court and his affluent background was exposed.

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