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Debra loves being the first to know information which makes it easy for her to respond to breaking news quickly for news.com.au. Debra has 17 years’ experience in the national and international press and online media, with almost half of that spent working overseas. Debra spent six years in the UK working for the Mirror Group, including the Mail Online.

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Leaders

Trump tweets after Charlottesville attack

The big line Donald Trump missed

MOMENTS after a car ploughed through people at a race hate march on Sunday, Donald Trump addressed the media. Critics say he missed the point badly.

Travel Incidents

In this photo provided by Joe Bunting, commuters cover their mouths as smoke fills the carriage of a Bakerloo line train, near Oxford Circus in London, Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. One of the busiest stations on London's subway system was evacuated Friday morning after a train carriage filled with smoke. London Fire Brigade said crews were investigating "smoke issuing at platform level" at Oxford Circus station. (Joe Bunting via AP)

Smoke sparks Tube station evacuation

SMOKE has forced the evacuation of one o the busiest tube stations in London during the morning rush hour.

VIC

A female driver alleges she was abused and threatened in a road rage attack in Melbourne. Picture: Screengrab

Road rage horror: ‘Please don’t hit me’

THIS is the shocking moment a woman was allegedly subjected to a terrifying road rage attack, which is now being investigated by police.

Leaders

This picture taken on August 10, 2017 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on August 11, 2017 shows service personnel of the Ministry of People's Armed Forces at a rally in support of North Korea's stance against the US, at the fatherland liberation war victory monument and education square in Pyongyang. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS / STR / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PHOTO IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY AFP. /

Scary truth about Trump options

DONALD Trump might talk tough when it comes to North Korea, but the reality is the US President can’t actually do much at all.

Leaders

(FILES) This file photo taken on August 8, 2017 shows US President Donald Trump speaking about North Korea at a meeting with administration officials on the opioid addiction crisis at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. President Donald Trump said on August 9, 2017 the United States' nuclear arsenal was now "more powerful than ever before" in a fresh warning to North Korea over its missile tests. "My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before," Trump wrote on Twitter before adding that "hopefully we will never have to use this power." / AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM

Donald Trump’s nuke claims don’t add up

IN THE process of threatening North Korea, Donald Trump made some scary claims about America’s nuclear arsenal. But did he have his facts straight?

Asia

This April 15, 2017 picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 16, 2017 shows Korean People's Army (KPA) soldiers marching through Kim Il-Sung square during a military parade in Pyongyang marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS / STR / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PHOTO IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY AFP. /

North Korea plan to unleash fury

A DEFIANT North Korea has warned America is “getting on its nerves” and Kim Jong-un has a plan of attack.

At Work

Would anyone do this job for free?

THE hours are long, you work a full day week and you must have started or finished a diploma or degree. Oh, and you won’t be paid.

Asia

FILE - In this April 15, 2017, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves during a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea to celebrate the 105th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung. The strongest U.N. sanctions in a generation may still prove no match for North Koreaâ€™s relentless nuclear weapons ambitions. Even in diplomatic triumph, the Trump administration is gambling that it has enough time to test if economic pressure can get Kim Jong Unâ€™s totalitarian government to end its missile advances and atomic weapons tests (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Look out Kim: China fires warning shot

CHINA has staged a series of naval drills off the Korean Peninsula in what some are claiming is a clear warning shot to Pyongyang and Washington.

Current Affairs

Hug a jihadi, reform a terrorist

A CONTROVERSIAL program is turning the idea of radicalisation on its head. The premise: Treat terrorists with empathy instead of punishing them.

Leaders

US President Donald Trump walks to Marine One prior to departure from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, August 4, 2017, as he travels on a 17-day vacation to Trump's golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB

Shadow over Trump White House

AMERICA’S VP has furiously denied claims he is positioning himself to dislodge Donald Trump amid reports of a rift.

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