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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

US President Donald Trump speaks alongside Terry Gou (R), Chairman of Foxconn, an electronics supplier, during an announcement that the company will open a manufacturing facility in Wisconsin, during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, July 26, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB

Real reason for transgender ban

IT HAPPENED so suddenly, seemingly without any consultation. But there’s more to US President Donald Trump’s military ban than meets the eye.

North America

Australian woman, Justine Ruszczyk Damond, killed by MPLS police officer, Minneapolis. Picture: Supplied

Justine’s death could cost $3.7m

THE fallout from Justine Damond’s shooting continues, as it is revealed the US city where she was killed could be facing a massive bill.

Innovation

epa06064631 (FILE) - An undated file handout photo made available by the North Korean official news agency KCNA on 22 May 2017 shows supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Jong-un (C) supervising the test-fire of the ground-to-ground medium-to-long range strategic ballistic missile Pukguksong-2 at an undisclosed location in North Korea (reissued 04 July 2017). According to media reports, North Korea launched a ballistic missile on 04 July, that flew around 930km towards the Sea of Japan. The missile fell into Japan's exclusive economic zone in the Sea of Japan, according to Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga. North Korea said that it has successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Picture: EPA/KCNA/AAP

Kim’s missile men behind his power

THESE men, always seen at Kim Jong-un’s side, are the real reason the world needs to fear North Korea’s nuclear-powered regime.

Africa

In this photo taken Saturday, May 13, 2017, thirteen-year-old boy Batista, who five months ago was drugged and raped in the middle of the night, stands in the doorway of a psychosocial support clinic in a camp for the internally-displaced in Wau, South Sudan. Four years into South Sudan's devastating civil war, the world's youngest nation is reeling from sexual violence on a "massive scale," a new Amnesty International report says Monday, July 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Bruno Bierrenbach Feder)

Blind man given impossible choice

WHEN soldiers attacked a blind man’s village, he was given a stark choice between two options nobody should ever have to consider.

Sports Life

Mike Tyson has revealed more about the abuse he suffered as a young child. Picture: Screengrab/ESPN

Mike Tyson’s shock revelation

HE’S always put up an invincible front in the ring and in public, but there’s something Mike Tyson still struggles to face.

Marriage

The bride and groom are suddenly thrown off the back of the car. Picture: YouTube

Wedding fail: Bride, groom fall off car

THIS couple have become internet heroes after they were captured falling off the back of a car while leaving their wedding party.

Asia

TOPSHOT - A man is seen with his hands bound as male residents are rounded up for verification after police officers conducted a large scale anti-drug raid at a slum community in Manila on July 20, 2017. One resident was killed in the raid according to police. President Rodrigo Duterte swept to an election victory last year largely on a pledge to wipe out his nation's illegal drugs trade within three to six months, saying he would do so by killing thousands of people. Duterte fulfilled his vow on the death toll, drawing condemnation from rights groups who warned he may be orchestrating a crime against humanity as police and unknown assassins filled slums with bullet-ridden corpses. / AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS

Indonesia issues chilling warning

CHAOS in the Philippines under ‘The Punisher’ is being mirrored by Indonesia, where the country’s top cop has just issued a disturbingly familiar edict.

North America

San Antonio police officers investigate the scene Sunday, July 23, 2017, where eight people were found dead in a tractor-trailer loaded with at least 30 others outside a Walmart store in stifling summer heat in what police are calling a horrific human trafficking case, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

‘Ruthless’ fiends in carpark horror

FROM the outside, nothing seemed amiss: A truck parked outside a mall on a 38C day. Inside, people were literally cooking to death.

Motoring

Mitsubishi VR-X CH Lancer - motor vehicles car Aug 2003

Drivers are now suing over airbag fiasco

A CLASS action has been launched against the nation’s biggest car manufacturers over their role in the “outrageous” defective Takata airbag scandal.

Social Media

PALM BEACH, FL - FEBRUARY 10: (CHINA OUT, SOUTH KOREA OUT) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, his wife Akie, U.S. President Donald Trump and his wife Melania attend their dinner at Mar a Lago on February 10, 2017 in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump and Abe held bilateral meetings and discussed many issues, including trade and security ties. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)

Trump ‘snub’ that has the internet talking

CLAIMS Japan’s First Lady pretended not to speak English for an hour to avoid small talk with the Trumps during dinner aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.

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