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• Social media video may show missing tourist days before disappearance

  02-07-2026 04:54 via smh.com.au
  
  A new video has shown a woman matching the description of Sally Grace Contarino being filmed by a content creator days before she went missing. There is no suggestion he is connected with her disappearance.
  
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• Extreme heatwave sparks safety concern for Trump’s July 4 festivities

  02-07-2026 03:52 via smh.com.au
  
  With temperatures forecast to reach up to 42 degrees, the US president told an audience he planned to make a long speech, “just to show that I can do anything”.
  
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• 4 charged after 16 children found in 'deplorable' conditions in Ohio home

  02-07-2026 03:36 via smh.com.au
  
  The children are part of the same family, officials said. The four people charged appeared in court Wednesday where a judge entered not guilty pleas on their behalf.
  
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• Ohio 'house of horrors' where sixteen children were living in one room

  02-07-2026 03:12 via smh.com.au
  
  Sixteen children from the same family who were rescued from a dilapidated home in rural Ohio were living in wretched conditions with human waste all around, confined to just one room over much of the past four years.
  
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• ‘Just a disgusting scene’: Sixteen children rescued from house of horrors

  02-07-2026 02:25 via smh.com.au
  
  Ohio authorities were horrified when they found the children – all from the same family, some unable to speak – living in wretched conditions, largely confined to one room in a dilapidated home.
  
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• ‘Almost feral animals’: Sixteen children rescued from house of horrors

  02-07-2026 02:25 via smh.com.au
  
  Ohio authorities were horrified when they found the children – all from the same family, some unable to speak – living in wretched conditions, largely confined to one room in a dilapidated home.
  
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• Two arrested after climbing to the top of Empire State Building

  02-07-2026 00:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Two Russian daredevils have been arrested after climbing to the top of the Empire State Building in New York City.
  
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