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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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Environment

Summer is well and truly here with most of Australia's capitals heating up this week. Picture: Sky News Weather

How hot your city’s about to get

EVERY capital city in Australia is facing scorching conditions as summer starts to heat up across the entire country.

Asia

Philippine's President Rodrigo Duterte gestures as he answers a question during a press conference at the Malacanang palace in Manila on January 30, 2017. Philippine's President Rodrigo Duterte on January 30, 2017 extended his deadly drug war until the last day of his term in 2022, but conceded the police force acting as his frontline troops was

Punisher’s frightening new war

FIREBRAND Philippines President has announced police will resume anti-drug operations in response to a “clamour for the public”, leaving critics horrified.

Middle East

President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017, in Washington. Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital despite intense Arab, Muslim and European opposition to a move that would upend decades of U.S. policy and risk potentially violent protests. Vice President Mike Pence listens. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Real reason for Trump’s decision

US President Donald Trump has declared Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The provocative move is huge for more reasons than one.

Innovation

CHAMP rockets send microwave beams at the speed of light to disable a nuclear-armed missile as it prepares to launch. Picture: Screengrab/NBC News

US’ superweapon ready to use

IT’S a superweapon capable of frying the electronics of Kim Jong-un’s nuclear missile arsenal, and the US is ready to use it.

Health Problems

In a photo taken on November 21, 2017, people make their way early morning along a road near Chongjin on North Korea's northeast coast. / AFP PHOTO / Ed JONES

North Korea’s ‘ghost disease’

DEFECTORS fleeing North Korea have spoken out about a horrific illness labelled “ghost disease” afflicting the country.

Asia

This Nov. 29, 2017, image provided by the North Korean government on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, third from left, and what the North Korean government calls the Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile, in North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

What nuclear attack sounds like

NORTH Korea says its enemies are “begging for nuclear war” as tensions ramp up and nuclear sirens ring for the first time since WWII.

Asia

TOPSHOT - CORRECTION - This photo taken on November 29, 2017 and released on November 30, 2017 by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows launching of the Hwasong-15 missile which is capable of reaching all parts of the US. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS / KCNA VIA KNS / - South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

What North Korea’s really playing at

THE secretive state has launched its most powerful missile yet. Now North Korea’s final goal is almost in sight, and the world can’t stop it.

Innovation

A man watches a TV screen showing a local news program reporting with a file footage of North Korea's missile launch, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017. After 2 Â½ months of relative peace, North Korea launched its most powerful weapon yet early Wednesday, a presumed intercontinental ballistic missile that could put Washington and the entire eastern U.S. seaboard within range. The letters read

What will happen if Kim attacks

WE NOW know North Korea is capable of hitting the United States with a ballistic missile. If Kim dares to launch a strike, this is what will happen next.

North America

US Coast guard floating prisons in the Pacific. Picture: US Coast Guard

US runs ‘secret floating prisons’

THE war on drugs appears to have taken a disturbing turn with the US Coast Guard reportedly turning ships into floating prisons.

Asia

CORRECTION - This handout picture taken on November 27, 2017 by the Oga city municipal office and released via Jiji Press shows coast guard officers inspecting a battered wooden boat where eight bodies were found inside at a beach in Oga, Japan's Akita prefecture. Japanese coastguard officials spotted eight bodies inside a battered wooden boat off northern Akita prefecture but waves had prevented officials from investigating since the boat was first spotted on November 24. Dozens of North Korean fishing vessels wash up on Japan's coast every year. Sometimes the boats' occupants have already died at sea, a phenomenon local media refer to as

Mysterious bodies found on ghost ship

EIGHT mysterious decomposed bodies have been found on a boat. Clues suggest they had fled Kim Jong-un’s North Korean regime.

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