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Her discovery in a home in Carnarvon overnight has made international news, especially in the UK.

The news is the top story on the BBC home page, as well as on The Times and The Guardian.

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"Girl, 4, snatched from tent in the outback found after 17-day search," the Times headline read.

The story is also front page news on the Irish Independent and US news website CNN, and is top of the page on New Zealand sites.

Her rescue has also been reported on German sites Der Spiegel, Deutsche Welle, RND and Suddeutsche Zeitung.

And the news is being reported in countries like Uruguay and Chile.

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CLEO SMITH FOUND: WHAT WE KNOW

• At 12.46am (AWST) overnight, police broke into a locked home in Carnarvon, Western Australia, where four-year-old Cleo Smith was found alive and well. 
• A 36-year-old man was found not far from the home, and has been taken into custody. He is assisting police with inquiries. 
• Police have said the man has no connection with Cleo Smith's family. 
• Investigators were acting on information received that night, but it has not been disclosed yet what led them to that address. 
• Cleo has been reunited with her family. 

The news has also been celebrated by celebrities overseas.

Eight out of Ten Cats Does Countdown host Rachel Riley expressed her relief via Twitter.

https://twitter.com/RachelRileyRR/status/1455654453072306177

Tonight on Channel 9 at 8.40pm Finding Cleo: A Nine News Special will have all the latest updates from a remarkable day. Watch live on Channel Nine or 9Now here

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Police worked through a hierarchy of suspicion to find Cleo Smith, a former detective has explained, adding that detectives will now be establishing if a man found with the young girl acted alone.

Speaking on Today, Terry Goldsworthy said abductions by strangers are "fairly rare" and so police must naturally eliminate closest family and friends first.

"Once (police) determined it was looking like a kidnapping or a homicide potentially … they would have moved through the hierarchy of suspicion," the former Queensland detective turned criminologist said.

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Mr Goldsworthy said technology and a massive media campaign had played a "major role" in assisting police to track down a suspect.

"The fact the raid took place last night, at 1am, I suspect they got some information shortly before that time and acted immediately."

Police have detained a man who was found in the Carnarvon house with Cleo early this morning.

The house, currently ringed with police tape and being searched forensically, is located just minutes from the young girl's family home.

Now police will be questioning the man to find out how Cleo came to be in the house, Mr Goldsworthy said, and if the suspect worked alone or with other people.

"Let's not exclude there could be others," he said.

"We don't know that yet."

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The primary evidence police have is finding Cleo in the house, Mr Goldsworthy explained.

"The circumstances of how she got there will now be the focus of their investigation.

"So they'll be trying to work back from locating her this morning, back to her disappearance 19 days ago."

Police will want to "fill in those blank spaces" and build a case to lay charges.

CLEO SMITH FOUND: WHAT WE KNOW

• At 12.46am (AWST) overnight, police broke into a locked home in Carnarvon, Western Australia, where four-year-old Cleo Smith was found alive and well. 
• A 36-year-old man was found not far from the home, and has been taken into custody. He is assisting police with inquiries. 
• Police have said the man has no connection with Cleo Smith's family. 
• Investigators were acting on information received that night, but it has not been disclosed yet what led them to that address. 
• Cleo has been reunited with her family. 

READ MORE: Finding Cleo Smith 'a miracle'

Tonight on Channel 9 at 8.40pm Finding Cleo: A Nine News Special will have all the latest updates from a remarkable day. Watch live on Channel Nine or 9Now here