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Twitter employee uses last day at work to deactivate US President Donald Trump's account
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Men from overseas, including Australia, are estimated to have fathered tens of thousands of children to sex workers in the Philippines. Now, thanks to DNA, the children are tracking them down. Watch the #4Corners documentary, Sex Tourism: My Father’s Secret, on ABC iview:
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A dictator and his beauty queen wife amassed nearly $13b in stolen wealth. Now their son is set to rule
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Dog guards fire-ruined home for a month while waiting for owner (pic: AP)
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Watch SA Premier @JayWeatherill shirtfront Federal Energy Minister @JoshFrydenberg on live TV, after gatecrashing the presser #auspol
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The decision of three actors in the Sydney Theatre Company's new production of The Seagull to wear the keffiyeh during curtain call sparked a frenzy of condemnation from members of the Jewish community. @latingle spoke to @louiseadler. #abc730
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Trump says he will leave the White House if Biden is confirmed by electoral college
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Adani is paying millions to a Myanmar military-backed group, leaked documents show
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@realDonaldTrump @FoxNews @BretBaier G'day! As much as we appreciate the shout-out, we think you meant @ABC?
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Dr Dan Suan says everyone should self-isolate at home in order to break person-to-person transmission: "Social isolation is not an act of fear. it's an act of love. The reason you are doing is to protect yourself, your family, your friends and their families."
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Watch the emotional moment a Syrian refugee is reunited with his four kids and wife in Cambodia after seven years apart
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Journalist Kerry O'Brien rejects Australia Day honour in protest over 'divisive' Margaret Court award
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Jung Kook rose to fame with K-pop dominators BTS. A new documentary charts how he copes with pressure and popularity when he strikes out on his own.
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World's oldest cheese found in Egyptian tomb — but it may be filled with a deadly disease
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An emotional @billshortenmp has hit back at 'gotcha s**t', after the Daily Telegraph published a story about his mother
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Greta Thunberg “represents the anger of that generation. It might insult a whole lot of middle aged white guys because it’s not the way we'd talk. but when I speak to young people there’s a rising rage that our generation has failed to step up,” @MrKRudd tells @PatsKarvelas
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Social media giant X says it will not comply with requests from the Australian eSafety commissioner to take down content referencing the Wakeley stabbing.
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Sydney researcher who lost son to SIDS makes breakthrough in preventing 'every parent's worst nightmare'
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Adelaide United midfielder Josh Cavallo publicly announces he's gay in emotional video
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For 10 minutes, a Times Square billboard shamed Australia on climate
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Live: Trump paid $US3 million for a recount that found 87 more votes for Biden
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New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says he would like the country to become a republic ahead of attending King Charles III' coronation on Saturday.
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Customer "hopping mad" after being turned away from Hervey Bay mobile phone store.
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Joni Mitchell to remove songs from Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young's stance against COVID 'misinformation'
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Indigenous Affairs reporter Isabella Higgins says the No victory in the Indigenous Voice to Parliament Referendum could change the way Indigenous Australians will want to interact with the rest of the country going forward.
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'How do you talk social distancing to people who live with about seven people in a small little shanty?' says @RanaAyyub, after Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, reported its first #coronavirus death. #Mumbai @bevvo14 #TheWorld
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Liberal MP Bridget Archer has defied her party leader Peter Dutton, saying any weakening of the current 2030 climate target would be "regressive" and the details of any alternative target should be revealed before an election.
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Canada bans foreigners from buying properties in bid to ease housing crisis
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Tiny radioactive cylinder lost in WA, sparking urgent public health warning
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Pat Cummins calls for Australia Day to be celebrated on a different date and backs Cricket Australia's decision not to use the term in marketing for the Brisbane Test.
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After fronting the cameras for 120 straight days, Daniel Andrews is taking a day off
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Indonesia elections: Former Governor of Jakarta and Presidential candidate @aniesbaswedan on why he wants more business engagement between #Indonesia and #Australia. #TheWorld @bevvo14
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An electrical failure creates a nightmarish spectacle at a US theme park, with a giant animatronic T Rex bursting into flames
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David Leyonhjelm loses appeal bid, must pay $120,000 for defaming Sarah Hanson-Young
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Sydney's Taronga Zoo welcomes energetic fennec fox baby as it emerges from nesting box.
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Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart says federal taxation collected from mining more than covers the cost of the salaries of all of Australia's police, teachers and nurses. But #RMITABCFactCheck found that claim doesn't stack up: #auspol #factcheck
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China's proposed laws for Hong Kong could lead to sanctions from the US
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Pink offers to pay fine issued to Norway's beach handball players for not wearing bikini bottoms
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“I've never seen an assault on the media as savage as this… I've never seen a warrant this comprehensive & I'd say scary… The chilling message is not so much for the journalists, but it's also for the public,” head of ABC Investigations @TheLyonsDen tells @PatsKarvelas #auspol
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"Well I'll be buggered, there's a shark in my boat!" Terry Selwood tells us how a 200kg great white shark ended up in his fishing boat.
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Sydney anti-lockdown protest organiser jailed for at least three months
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Fox News is now facing billions in lawsuits for peddling Trump's lies. Here's why
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Aquarium's leopard shark switches to asexual reproduction in extreme form of inbreeding
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WTA threatens to pull tournaments from China if Peng Shuai isn't accounted for
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We fact checked Scott Morrison's claim Australia was outperforming other countries with its vaccination rollout. Here's what we found.
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Canberra doctor returns OAM in protest against Margaret Court Australia Day honour
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'Multiple' people escape from Howard Springs COVID quarantine facility near Darwin
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The Coalition wants to dramatically increase gas supply and soften regulations to try to bring down power prices.
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"It never happened when there was a terrible colonial oppressor, Britain." The last governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, blames China for creating a generation of people who want independence from the mainland. #TheWorld @bevvo14 @fangjason
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Dylan Alcott wins second Wimbledon singles title to keep 'golden slam' hopes alive
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"Vladimir Putin is effectively a war criminal - this is a guy who should be contained, not engaged" - watch the full interview with 'Putin's number one enemy' @Billbrowder tonight on The World's special coverage of the Donald Trump/Vladimir Putin Summit. @bevvo14 #ABCTheWorld
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"I don't think it will do any good for Peter Dutton if the No case wins in the long-term, but the political implications is it will fire up the Conservatives to think this is the way you run politics and I think that's a really deeply disturbing sign for the country." - @latingle
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White House coronavirus advisor Anthony Fauci praises Victorian attitude to mask wearing
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Taylor Swift dominates the Spotify charts in Australia as Beyonce and Adele struggle
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In a searing Press Club speech, mining and clean energy magnate Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest slams the Coalition and fossil fuel lobby for using nuclear energy "bulldust" to delay the transition to a zero emissions economy.
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Australian of the Year Local Hero award winner Amar Singh will be voting Yes — he says that decision is based on "fairness".
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On a recent visit to Tokyo, a New South Wales farmer was shocked to find Australian beef selling for less than you can find it in Coles and Woolworths.
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Parents of murdered Queensland schoolboy Daniel Morcombe welcome grandchild on Day for Daniel
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Death toll climbs as Iranian protesters set fire to police stations in wake of Mahsa Amini's death
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The latest @IPCC_CH report says global warming is likely to increase to 1.5 degrees by 2030, bringing more heatwaves, droughts and flooding. Its vice chair @ProfMarkHowden tells @bevvo14 it confirms a disturbing trend highlighted in previous reports. #TheWorld
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Senator Linda Reynolds was an unreliable witness who failed to answer questions and whose "gratuitous" and "self-serving" testimony was more like advocacy, court defamation proceedings against her former staffer Brittany Higgins have been told.
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Far-right British commentator Katie Hopkins to be deported after visa cancelled
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