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Casey Donovan and Vanessa Amorosi lead the celebrity arrivals at Eurovision Australia Decides

The stars were out in force at the Eurovision Australia Decides media call on the Gold Coast on Friday. 




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Montaigne is chosen to represent Australia at the Eurovision song contest 2020

Montaigne will represent Australia at the Eurovision song contest in May. 




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Jack Vidgen is trolled on social media after performing on Eurovision: Australia Decides

The lyrics of his Eurovision entry focused on the journey to self love and acceptance. 




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Jack Vidgen steps out to attend Tokki grand opening after being trolled on social media

He was recently trolled on social media while performing on Eurovision: Australia Decides.




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Jessica Mauboy at Fire Fight Australia bushfire relief concert

Jessica Mauboy put on an energetic performance at the sold-out Fire Fight Australia bushfire relief concert in Sydney on Sunday.




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French Eurovision song denounced by country's culture minister for using English lyrics

Frank Riester criticised the song, The Best In Me, after it was unveiled by singer Tom Leeb on Sunday. Mr Riester did not object to its artistic quality but instead was critical of the fact that half the song is in English.




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BBC bosses won't let YOU pick our Eurovision act

The broadcaster teamed up with record label BMG to decide who will represent the UK at this year's competition, as leaving it to the public has resulted in a series of losses.




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Eurovision 2020 UK Entry confirmed as BRIT Award winner James Newman

The singer, 28, will head to Rotterdam in The Netherlands for the grand final, with his song My Last Breath, after being announced on BBC Radio on Thursday.




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Coronavirus: Eurovision Song Contest 2020 is AXED amid crisis

The annual singing contest - due to take place in Rotterdam this May - has been cancelled as a response to the global crisis




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Eurovision fans DEMAND Iceland be crowned the winner

Eurovision fans are demanding Iceland's entry Daði Freyr be crowned the 'default winner' of the song contest with their 'banging tune' after this years event was cancelled amid the coronavirus pandemic.




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Eurovision songs for 2020 contest are NOT eligible to compete in next year's show

The songs that were entered into this year's Eurovision Song Contest will not be eligible in 2021, the event's producers confirmed on Friday.




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ABBA triumph over Oasis and One Direction on list of the bands that fans most want to see reunited 

Swedish pop group Abba (pictured) are the band fans most want to see reunited and playing live again after they split in 1982 following their rise to worldwide fame in 1974.




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Bucks Fizz to reunite for virtual performance after Eurovision Song Contest was axed

The eighties pop group - now renamed The Fizz - were poised for a return to the stage that helped turn them into household names when the long-running annual event kicked off in Rotterdam.




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10,000 year old weapons 'factory' is found in Siberia 

The mammoth remains, preserved in permafrost, were found this summer on Kotelny Island, part of the New Siberian archipelago in the Russian Arctic.




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Democrats demand Trump hand over notes of his one-one-one meetings with Vladimir Putin

The House Oversight Committee chairman is demanding the White House hand over records of Trump-Putin meetings, and wants to know if Trump destroyed a translator's notes.




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Ivanka jetting with her father to give keynote speech at 'Women's Empowerment' event in Japan

Ivanka Trump will be joining her father on his trip to Japan, where she will speak at a 'Women's Empowerment' event connected to the G20 summit in Osaka.




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Trump's protocol ambassador forced out amid internal probe

Chief of Protocol Sean Lawler has left his post, following reports of a possible internal probe of allegations of intimidation and harassment.




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May braces for showdown with Putin at G20 summit

Theresa May Vladimir Putin (pictured) will hold face-to-face talks during the gathering in Japan this week over how to stabilise ties between the countries.




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Theresa May will tell Putin to scrap Russia's 'malign' policies at G20 summit

Theresa May and husband Philip touched down in Osaka, where world leaders are gathering for the G20 summit of powerful nations.




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Trump touches down in Japan for a crush of intense diplomatic talks with Putin and China

President Donald Trump arrives in Japan for talks with Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and other leaders after demanding from aboard Air Force One that India pull back tariffs.




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Hand over novichok killers who attacked the Skripals in Salisbury, Theresa May will tell Putin

Theresa May will today tell Vladimir Putin to hand over the two agents who carried out the Salisbury chemical attack on Sergei Skripal, when the leaders meet at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan




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Putin brands treason the 'gravest crime' as he shrugs off Skripal row ahead of May meeting

The Russian President will meet Theresa May at the G20 in Russia today where the Prime Minister will demand he admits to the Novichok attack and hand over the two spies sent to kill Sergei Skripal.




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Theresa May confronts Vladimir Putin over Salisbury attack and tells him to hand over the suspects

Theresa May is holding face-to-face talks with Vladimir Putin in Osaka, Japan in an attempt to thaw relations between Russia and Britain as she prepares to quit as PM next month.




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Vladimir Putin taunts Britain over the Tory leadership race

Vladimir Putin has taken aim at the race to succeed Theresa May as he questioned how a democratic country could install a new prime minister without a national vote.




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G20 summit 2019: May orders Putin to stop 'destabilising' meddling

Theresa May greeted Vladimir Putin with the frostiest of handshakes as they met in Japan in a meeting which had been soured before it began by the Russian President's attack on Western views.




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Trump is reunited with the VERY glamorous Argentinian first lady at the G-20

President Donald Trump caught up with Argentina's first lady María Juliana Awada Baker during a G20 photo op, chatting with her several times during a photo event.




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Trump lands in South Korea with Ivanka and Jared for dinner with President Moon Jae-in

President Donald Trump has landed in South Korea with daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, and a meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un may be on his agenda.




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Putin signs law suspending Russia's participation in key nuclear arms control treaty with America

Putin's decree released on Wednesday formalizes Russia's departure from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty with the United States following Washington's withdrawal.




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I'd stand in front of a gunman trying to shoot Putin because he's a good guy says Ecclestone

Bernie Ecclestone, 88, also said he thought Putin should be running Europe and that the invasion of Crimea was just to 'bring Russia back together.'




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Daredevil campaigner perches 40 feet above the ground to campaign for better wheelchair access

A campaigner for better facilities for disabled people in Russia has found a heart-stopping way to highlight his cause by posing on a precarious ledge some 40ft above the ground in Samara, Russia.




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Theresa May delivers swipes at Boris Johnson, Trump and Putin

Theresa May said she had 'lived' politics for 50 years, and knew about its potential to 'improve people's lives'. But she said an inability to compromise was poisoning national life.




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Footage shows Russian-built Venezuelan fighter jet 'aggressively shadowing' an American aircraft

U.S. Southern Command tweeted video and images from the incident on Friday. They say the SU-30 Flanker 'aggressively shadowed' a U.S. EP-3 aircraft.




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Oscar winning director Oliver Stone asks Vladimir Putin to be his 22-year-old daughter's godfather

The Platoon director, pictured left with Putin and inset with his daughter, spoke to Putin on June 19 for his latest film about Ukraine.




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From Russia with Love! Putin sinks to new depths as he gives Bond-style mini-submarine a spin

The Russian President used the craft, a C-Explorer 3.11, to explore the Soviet Shchuka-class submarine Shch-308 which sunk in the Baltic Sea in October 1942 after hitting a German mine.




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Putin orders Russian army to tackle massive wild fire

Environmentalists have warned that the scale of the blazes, across central and east Russia, could accelerate global warming, aside from any immediate effects on the health of inhabitants.




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Trump called Putin and offered to help tackle Siberian wildfires

In a phone call between the leaders, Trump is said to have offered American assistance to help stem the blaze, which has now engulfed in excess of 7 million acres of Siberian woodland.




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Trump said Putin 'appreciated' his offer to help combat massive Siberian forest fires

President Donald Trump said Thursday Vladimir Putin 'appreciated' his offer to help with forest fires raging in Siberia, and that the two men did not discuss Russia's election interference.




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Jon Huntsman quits as ambassador to Russia and will return to Utah

U.S. diplomat Jon Huntsman has resigned as Donald Trump's ambassador to Russia.




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Vladimir Putin 'likely' approved of Salisbury Novichok attack

The Russian president's involvement in the deadly poisoning in Salisbury is understood to have been assessed by British intelligence agencies as well as Scotland Yard.




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Ambulances covered in protective film transport Russians 'who suffered radiation poisoning' in blast

The spike in radiation in Russia yesterday may have been caused when one of Vladimir Putin's top secret Zircon hypersonic missiles exploded during tests, according to news reports in the country.




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Putin's 'undetectable' Hunter stealth drone takes to the skies with a manned fighter jet

The Sukhoi-made Okhotsk - meaning Hunter - only made its maiden flight this month and Russia boasts it is 'almost undetectable' to Western enemies.




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Bullock says Ken Cuccinelli heading immigration policy is as bad as Putin in charge of elections

Steve Bullock, 2020 presidential candidate, on Sunday compared Ken Cuccinelli, the acting Director of the Citizenship and Immigration Services, to Russian President Vladimir Putin.




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Putin takes swipe at Macron as he says 'yellow vest' protests would NEVER be allowed in Russia 

Vladimir Putin vowed to prevent the emergence of mass protests yesterday speaking to French President Emmanuel Macron in southern France .




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Russian Soyuz rocket with six-foot tall humanoid robo-naut Fedor fails to dock at ISS

Russia's Soyuz rocket with Vladimir Putin's six-foot tall humanoid robot on board has failed to dock at the International Space Stations. The setback has been blamed on issues with docking systems.




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Former Overstock CEO claims Maria Butina offered to arrange a private meeting with Putin

Patrick Byrne, who stepped down last week from the company he founded, made the claim in a lengthy blog post on Tuesday detailing his relationship with Butina.




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MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell retracts claim that Russian oligarchs co-signed Trump's bank loans

O'Donnell claimed on the air that a source had told him 'the co-signers of Donald Trump's Deutsche Bank loans are Russian billionaires close to Vladimir Putin.' Trump's lawyers threatened to sue.




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Putin's 'secret agent Cornetto' is exposed after the SAME lady served him at a event two years apart

Russian journalists noted that the blonde ice cream seller at the MAKS-2019 international air show on Wednesday was the same woman who sold Putin his cone two years ago at the same event.




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Kremlin-backed TV network airs note-by-note mashup of Trump praising Putin with 'Señorita' song

'I love it when you call me señorita,' Trump appears to sing, one auto-tuned note at a time, with each word drawn from a different speech. 'I wish I could pretend I didn't need ya.'




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Trump's absence from WWII commemoration stokes fears in Poland of a rising relationship with Putin

Donald Trump's absence from an event commemorating the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Poland in WWII is stoking fears that the security alliance between Washington and Warsaw is weaker than the two governments have let on.




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Ukraine FREES key MH17 suspect ahead of likely prisoner swap with Russia

Volodymyr Tsemakh, an alleged separatist in the area where the Malaysian Airlines jet was shot down in 2014, was freed by a Kiev appeals court today pending further investigation.