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Christine Kellett is The Australian’s digital director. She was previously content director, The Weekend Australian’s digital editor and has been a news editor, chief of staff and senior reporter at titles including The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times and news.com.au.

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Scene of fatal shooting up in flames

The Atlanta restaurant where an unarmed black man was shot dead by police has been burnt to the ground by protesters.

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TOPSHOT - Chinese paramilitary police prepare to guard entrances to the closed Xinfadi market in Beijing on June 13, 2020. - The huge wholesale market has become the centre of focus for a new cluster of coronavirus cases in Beijing, where nervous local officials have begun mass testing, closing schools and neighbourhoods, and turned sharp scrutiny towards the food supply chain. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP)

Beijing lockdown as new outbreak rocks city

The outbreak – more than 50 days after the last local case in the city of 20 million people – forced a swift reaction in China.

Emily Ritchie and Agencies

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Tourism.File pic of Chinese tourists at Currumbin beach.Picture: NIGEL HALLETT

China’s racist assault claims slapped down

Labor joins growing chorus rejecting China’s extraordinary allegations against Australia.

Christine Kellett

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ATLANTA, GA - MAY 30: A firework explodes near a police line during a protest in response to the police killing of George Floyd on May 30, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. Across the country, protests have erupted following the recent death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the most recent in a series of deaths of black Americans by the police. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Multiple shootings, two dead

Donald Trump has cheered a major show of force by police and the National Guard, as demonstrators lay waste to US cities with fire and fury.

Christine Kellett and Agencies

CORONAVIRUS CRISISNation

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media during a visit to Robyn Rowe Chocolates with the Liberal candidate for the seat of Eden-Monaro Fiona Kotvojs in Murrumbateman near Canberra, Sunday, May 24, 2020. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

PM’s warning to Andrews: respect our China call

Scott Morrison says Victoria and other states should respect the federal government’s foreign policy, after Daniel Andrews backed claims Canberra had vilified China.

Richard Ferguson, Greg Brown and Lachlan Moffet Gray

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People believed to be police are pictured on the balcony of the room at the Hyatt Regency in Sydney this morning after a woman was found dead last night. Picture: David Swift

Two dead in horror balcony falls

A man questioned after woman falls 10 storeys from Sydney hotel balcony, while police probe drug-fuelled party that ended in 19yo’s fatal plunge.

Christine Kellett

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Weekend surgery as backlog blows out

Hospitals are facing the prospect of scheduling operations in the evenings and on weekends as waiting lists blow out.

Natasha Robinson

CORONAVIRUS CRISISNation

An employee works in a research and development lab of Beijing Applied Biological Technologies, a firm which is developing COVID-19 molecular diagnostic test kits, during a government organized tour for journalists in Beijing, Thursday, May 14, 2020. China reported three new coronavirus cases Thursday while moving to reopen for business and schools. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

China admits to destroying early samples

China concedes it ordered unauthorised laboratories to destroy samples to ‘prevent secondary disasters caused by unidentified pathogens’.

Rosie Lewis, Lachlan Moffet Gray and Ewin Hannan

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 15: Registered Nurse Laxman Adhikari conducts a nasal swab test in the clinical assessment room at St George Hospital COVID-19/ Flu Assessment Clinic on May 15, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. St George Hospital has been operating a COVID-19 and flu assessment clinic since 19 March 2020. Since being set up in response to the global coronavirus pandemic, approximately 4107 patients have visited the clinic (as of 13 May 2020), an average of 513 patients per week or 75 per day. The COVID-19 clinic operates seven days a week and is staffed by a team of doctors, nurses, admin support workers, wardspersons and cleaners. All patients are provided with education regarding COVID-19 symptoms, home isolation requirements, hand and respiratory hygiene. If they meet testing criteria, a nose and throat swab is collected. Patients who have been tested are given masks to take home and further information on how to register for AutoSMS or NSW Service App to retrieve their results. While testing in Australia was initially restricted to people who had been in contact with a confirmed COVID-19 case or had severe symptoms, as the country's confirmed infection rate continues to decline and restrictions on social distancing and gatherings begin to ease around the country, Australians with even the mildest symptoms are now being urged to get tested to avoid any coronavirus infection flare ups. In New South Wales nearly 346,000 people have been tested for COVID-19 (as of 14 May 2020), which is one of the highest testing rates in the world. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

Hospital backlog ‘will take 18 months to clear’

Even with private hospitals stepping in to assist, Australians seeking elective surgery face long delays before they go under the knife.

Natasha Robinson

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, April 29, 2020. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch/Pool)

Liberals to contest Eden-Monaro

The PM confirms the Libs will run in Eden-Monaro, all but denying John Barilaro a clear path to federal parliament.

Richard Ferguson

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