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And in headlines today, Anna Wintour’s replacement has been announced as the longtime American Vogue editor steps down after 37 years, 39 year old Chloe Malle, the daughter of actress Candice Bergen taking over; Businesses in the popular Alpine region, who should be gearing up for a bumper school holiday season, are instead grappling with the impact of a massive hunt for accused police killer Dezi Freeman; Thomas Sewell, the leader of an Australian Neo Nazi group who marched in protest of immigration on the weekend, has been charged over an attack on a First Nations camp after Sunday’s rally; A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has shaken southeastern Afghanistan, two days after a large quake in the same region killed more than 1400 people and injured thousands more; A US judge has ruled that President Donald Trump's mobilisation of the National Guard in California was illegal; Singer Justin Bieber has made a bride’s day even more memorable, taking photos with her and her girls in the lobby of the hotel where she was celebrating her nuptials

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