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Jacquelin Magnay is the Europe Correspondent for The Australian, based in London and covering all manner of big stories across political, business, Royals and security issues. She is a George Munster and Walkley Award winning journalist with senior media roles in Australian and British newspapers. Before joining The Australian in 2013 she was the UK Telegraph’s Olympics Editor.

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Coronavirus experienceWorld

Shiraz Maher, director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence at King’s College London

‘It was horrific’: how I survived the virus

A top authority on Islamic radicalisation, Shiraz Maher, has described his wild struggle with COVID-19.

Jacquelin Magnay in London

BRITISH PMWorld

(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 25, 2020 Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves number 10 Downing Street in central London on March 18, 2020, on his way to the House of Commons to attend Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) - Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the new coronavirus COVID-19 and is self-isolating in 10 Downing Street, it was announced on March 27, 2020. Johnson experienced

Positive test leaves Boris isolated

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive to coronavirus, creating a crisis at the heart of Westminster.

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Coronavirus BritainWorld

LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 25: Police Office and National Rail Staff are seen at an empty Waterloo Station on March 25, 2020 in London, England. British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announced strict lockdown measures urging people to stay at home and only leave the house for basic food shopping, exercise once a day and essential travel to and from work. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) has spread to at least 194 countries, claiming over 18,500 lives and infecting over 420,000 people. There have now been over 8,000 diagnosed cases in the UK and 422 deaths. (Photo by Alex Davidson/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

UK warned of six months of lockdown

Britons have been told that a semblance of normality probably won’t return before August.

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Julian AssangeWorld

(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 01, 2019 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures from the window of a prison van as he is driven out of Southwark Crown Court in London on May 1, 2019, after having been sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for breaching his bail conditions in 2012. - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on March 25, 2020 failed in his bid to be bailed after he argued that he was at risk of catching coronavirus in the British prison where he is being held. (Photo by Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP)

Assange loses bail bid amid virus fears

Julian Assange claims his poor health puts him at heightened risk if he catches COVID-19, and infection is more likely in prison.

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Coronavirus hits royalsWorld

FILE - In this Monday, March 9, 2020 file photo, Britain's Prince Charles and Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall, in the background, leave after attending the annual Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey in London, Monday, March 9, 2020. Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, has tested positive for the new coronavirus. The princeâ€™s Clarence House office reported on Wednesday, March 25, 2020 that the 71-year-old is showing mild symptoms of COVID-19 and is self-isolating at a royal estate in Scotland. For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Charles met Brandis before positive test

Australia’s High Commissioner dined with Prince of Wales days before the royal tested positive.

Jacquelin Magnay and Anne Barrowclough

World

people sit at either end of a park bench as they talk in Clapham Common in south London on March 24, 2020 after Britain's government ordered a lockdown to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. - Britain was under lockdown March 24, its population joining around 1.7 billion people around the globe ordered to stay indoors to curb the

UK call to help those in danger

Britain has begun galvanising an army of volunteers to help more than 1.5 million elderly and vulnerable people in self-isolation.

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GAMES ON HOLDOlympics

A general view shows an installation of the Olympic rings in Tokyo on March 24, 2020. - The International Olympic Committee came under pressure to speed up its decision about postponing the Tokyo Games on March 24 as athletes criticised the four-week deadline and the United States joined calls to delay the competition. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Olympics postponed to 2021

The Tokyo Olympics have been postponed until 2021 but organisers insist on still calling them the 2020 Games.

Jacquelin Magnay

CORONAVIRUS CRISISNation

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, March 24, 2020. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch/POOL)

PM expands shutdown to weddings, funerals

Scott Morrison has asked Australians to ‘stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary’ as he extended the virus shutdown.

Craig Johnstone, Rachel Baxendale and Lachlan Moffet Gray

Coronavirus UKWorld

LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 22: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gives his daily COVID 19 press briefing at Downing Street on March 22, 2020 in London, England. Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has spread to at least 182 countries, claiming over 10,000 lives and infecting hundreds of thousands more. (Photo by Ian Vogler-WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Boris orders Britons to stay home or face fine

Boris Johnson has told Britons they may go out only to shop for necessities, travel to work or exercise once a day.

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World

Lawyer Maarten Pijnenburg, member of the MH17 Legal Aid Team, arrives at the highly secured Schiphol Judicial Complex for the trial of four men charged over MH17 flight downing, on March 23, 2020 in Badhoevedorp. (Photo by Robin VAN LONKHUIJSEN / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT / ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN,Nederland,ANP Robin van Lonkhuijsen,bin,NLD,Lawyer Maarten Pijnenburg, member of the MH17 Legal Aid Team, arrives at the highly secured Schiphol Judicial Complex for the process of taking down flight MH17. Relatives, the press and interested parties are not welcome at this meeting, however, due to the coronavirus. In Badhoevedorp, the Netherlands, 23 March 2020. ANP ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN,NETHERLANDS COURT DECIDES ON INVESTIGATIVE WISHES IN MH17 TRIAL,ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN,Esther,ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN,Badhoevedorp netherlands out - belgium out

Satellite captured image of MH17 missile

Satellite images captured the firing of the Buk missile that downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in 2014.

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