AFL star Jamarra Ugle-Hagan has been caught up in a non-fatal shooting outside a notorious Melbourne nightclub.

The troubled Western Bulldogs forward was outside Love Machine on Chapel Street with a friend when the incident took place in the early hours of yesterday morning.

9News Chief Football Reporter Tom Morris revealed Ugle-Hagan's friend became involved in a verbal altercation with another group before a fight broke out and a gun was fired about 2.25am.

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It is believed Ugle-Hagan, who has not played any football this year due to mental health concerns, wasn't physically involved in the scuffle and that he walked back into the venue following the shooting incident.

Victoria Police told 9News police are now investigating whether Ugle-Hagan had any involvement in the incident.

No arrests have been made in connection to the shooting.

The AFL and the Western Bulldogs declined to comment, telling 9News the latest incident is a police matter. 

It follows a separate incident last month after a car belonging to Ugle-Hagan was involved in a violent crime spree in Melbourne's south-east.

9News revealed the white Jeep Cherokee was driven to several service stations, where a group of masked thieves allegedly carried out armed robberies.

It's alleged the group first targeted a milk bar in Keysborough about 7.30pm, before travelling to a service station on Warrigal Road in Cheltenham about an hour later.

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The Western Bulldogs said the club was aware of the incidents and were satisfied Ugle-Hagan was not involved.

9News also exclusively revealed the same vehicle had been involved in a drive-by shooting in June.

Three shots were fired at 71-year-old Doug Lee at his Glen Iris home.

Ugle-Hagan was questioned by police and has been cleared of any wrongdoing.

In a podcast, the 23-year-old said he'd given his car to a mate because he didn't trust himself driving.

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Union members are set to strike on Wednesday.

Donald Trump has claimed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy can end Russia's illegal invasion of his country "almost immediately" ahead of the leaders' high-stakes White House meeting tonight.

In a post on Truth Social this morning, the US president appeared to put the onus for reaching a ceasefire or peace deal on Zelenskyy rather than Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

"President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight," Trump said.

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"Remember how it started."

The unprovoked war was launched by Russia more than three years ago, and has since gone on to claim hundreds of thousands of lives.

A study in June found Moscow's forces were closing in on 1 million military casualties – including about 250,000 deaths – while the figure for Ukraine was sitting at almost 400,000, with 60,000-100,000 deaths.

Tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians have also been injured and killed in the conflict.

In his post, Trump suggested Zelenskyy would have to cede the Crimean peninsula – which is part of Ukraine's internationally recognised borders but has been controlled by Russia since it was seized in 2014 – as part of any peace deal.

He also ruled out NATO membership for Ukraine, something Zelenskyy has long sought.

"No getting back Obama given Crimea (12 years ago, without a shot being fired!), and NO GOING INTO NATO BY UKRAINE," Trump wrote.

"Some things never change!!!"

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The post comes just two days after the much-anticipated meeting between Trump and Putin that ended without a ceasefire plan, and with the Russian dictator having appeared to give up very little – if anything at all – in return for his red-carpet treatment on US soil.

Trump has repeatedly defended the summit, while special envoy Steve Witkoff said Putin did make a crucial concession during the talks.

"We were able to win the following concession: that the United States could offer Article 5-like protection, which is one of the real reasons why Ukraine wants to be in NATO," he told CNN, adding it was "game-changing".

It's "the first time we had ever heard the Russians agree to that", Witkoff said.

Trump's comments also come as Zelenskyy prepares for his second White House meeting with Trump, to be held overnight (Australian time).

However, unlike his first trip to Washington this year, when he was infamously and very publicly ambushed by Trump and Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office, he'll be joined by an ensemble of prominent European leaders.

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British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, as well as their counterparts from Italy, Finland, NATO and the European Union, will all accompany Zelenskyy.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, meanwhile, once again indicated an openness to sending troops to be part of any potential United Nations peacekeeping force in the future, saying he would consider any request.

However, he said there was a long way to go before those discussions could take place. 

"We know that Mr Putin has designs on not just Ukraine," Albanese told Sky News.

"The concern is certainly there, and there is certainly a lack of trust between Mr Putin and European and other leaders of democracies.

"We stand with Ukraine, we want to see peace in the region. Ukraine must, of course, not have a solution imposed on it. They need to be a part of those negotiations."

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It is understood the incident happened at a Tegal Foods plant.

The PM, no stranger to long days, did not stay up for the call.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is requesting assistance from the public after 80kg of cocaine worth $26 million was discovered in Sydney.

The shipping container arrived in Port Botany in Sydney's south last Monday from the US and was investigated after x-rays identified anomalies within it.

Further examination revealed two bags containing multiple packages of a substance that tested positive for cocaine.

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Each package was wrapped in blue clingfilm and had a numbered label on it.

The drugs were subsequently seized, with the AFP now seeking further information on the criminal syndicate responsible for the importation.

Australian Border Force Superintendent Jared Leighton revealed there is a chance the shipment was tampered with.

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"The illicit drugs found within this container were not concealed, which could be indicative of a 'rip-on/rip-off' method," Leighton said.

"As cargo moves from the country of origin to the country of destination, criminal insiders could tamper with legal shipments."

Last year, up to 740 attempted drug importations were disrupted by police and the Australian Border Force, including attempts to import cocaine.

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The coldest temperature of the year in Australia was recorded last night as yet more rain returns for millions in Sydney and along the east coast.

With an overnight minimum of -13 degrees, Thredbo Top Station in the NSW ski resort registered the nation's coldest night of 2025 by more than three degrees, Weatherzone reports.

It put the big dip down to a rare windless winter night at the 1957m-high spot.

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It was the coldest temperature recorded anywhere in NSW since 2018 and the coldest in Australia since -13.5 degrees was recorded in Liawenee on Tasmanian's Central Plateau on July 4, 2024.

In Sydney, it got down to just under seven degrees overnight as the city faces another week of rain just days after a record-breaking deluge.

The grim forecast is for relentless showers until at least Sunday.

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Heavy falls and even flooding are possible all along the east coast.

There's even a chance of snow in northern NSW and southern Queensland, where some flakes fell earlier this month.

A week ago,it was reported Sydney was soaked on its wettest weekend for almost 30 years with almost a month's worth of rain falling.

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The deluge made it the city's wettest August weekend since 1998, according to Weatherzone.

There was just over 80mm of rain recorded – that's slightly more than what is usually expected for the whole month.

Meanwhile, Perth is also set for a soaking this week.

Up to 80mm of rain is expected over the south-west of Western Australia, with up to 40mm in Perth, on Tuesday and Wednesday.

A former air force pilot accused of murder after his wife's body was found near a lawnmower has had a bail breach dismissed.

Robert John Crawford, 47, faced a summary hearing in Toowoomba Magistrates Court today charged with breaching bail conditions by not answering his door to police.

Crawford faced strict bail conditions, including an 8pm to 8am home curfew, after he was charged with murder and interfering with a corpse.

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He was accused of staging the death of his wife, Frances Crawford, to look like an accident after she was found near the ride-on lawnmower at a rural Upper Lockyer property, west of Brisbane, in July 2024.

Crawford was charged in October 2024 and granted bail in May, which had conditions including the home curfew.

Magistrate Mark Howden heard that an officer knocked on Crawford's home at 1.55am on June 13 after arriving in an unmarked four-wheel drive.

Queensland Police prosecutor Anita Page showed body-worn camera footage of an officer knocking on the front door of the large home surrounded by bushland, before looking in a window and knocking again.

Crawford was arrested at Toowoomba Police Station at 9am on June 14 when he arrived for his daily bail reporting requirement.

Defence solicitor Andrew McGinness told police Crawford was at home on the night of June 13.

"He was asleep and it was clear enough he did not hear," McGinness said.

Crawford also told police in a formal recorded interview that he was abiding by his curfew.

"I was present at home. I did not hear any knocks on the door," he said.

Today, defence barrister Matthew Jackson said police spent one minute and 20 seconds knocking on Crawford's door.

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"They did not make Crawford aware they were exercising police powers," Jackson said.

Jackson told Mr Howden the body worn camera did not show police taking extra steps such as calling out to Crawford or shining torches in his windows.

Page said it was not for police officers to reinterpret the conditions of a Supreme Court bail order and that they were not permitted to do anything other than knock on the door.

"Given the serious nature of the charges … (Crawford) is under the obligation to do everything he can to comply with bail conditions," Page said.

Following a two-hour hearing with three police witnesses, Howden granted the application for no case to answer and dismissed the breach of bail charge.

"I am satisfied (Crawford) was asleep when police knocked on his door and he did not hear them knocking," Howden said.

"In that circumstance, the police case must fail because they are unable to prove he was asked to answer the door."

Crawford appeared in court dressed in a black suit and light blue tie, sitting at the bar table during the hearing with his hands clasped in his lap.

He declined to comment when approached by reporters as he exited court today.

The murder charge is due to be next heard on October 8 at Ipswich Magistrates Court for committal proceedings.

Crawford was suspended from the Royal Australian Air Force in October 2024, before separating from the Australian Defence Force in April.

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Terence Stamp, the British actor who became synonymous with Swinging London in the 1960s, has died, his family said Sunday, according to Reuters. He was 87 years old.

Stamp first came to prominence when he took on the titular role in the 1962 film Billy Budd. The black and white drama, directed by Peter Ustinov, who also starred, saw Stamp nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor – the only Oscar nomination of his lengthy career.

He went on to star in a host of films in the 1960s, among them John Schlesinger's Thomas Hardy adaptation Far From the Madding Crowd and Ken Loach's first feature film, Poor Cow.

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Stamp was a star who rose from humble beginnings in London's East End, about as far from Hollywood as you can get. He was born on July 22, 1938, to parents Ethel and Thomas, a merchant seaman.

In a 2013 interview with the British Film Institute (BFI), Stamp revealed that his father tried to deter him from a career in showbiz.

"He genuinely believed that people like us didn't do things like that," he said. But his mother, he said, "loved every second of it."

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"In retrospect, my mother must have always wanted me to do it and must have wished that she could have been more supportive. But my dad was the head of the family and I never really knew what he thought of it because he was of that generation," he said.

"He was a merchant seaman, he shovelled coal, and in that confined living quarters any show of emotion would have been considered unbearably flash."

Stamp would become one of the biggest figures of 1960s London, romantically linked to model Jean Shrimpton and actresses Julie Christie – his Far From the Madding Crowd co-star – and Brigitte Bardot.

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His only marriage came in 2002 – to an Australian pharmacist 35 years his junior – but that lasted just six years, according to the Guardian.

Stamp famously roomed with fellow actor Michael Caine, who was also a rising star at the time. The pair lost touch, however, as he disclosed in an interview with The Guardian newspaper in 2015.

"We just went different ways. I can understand it: in many ways he was much more mature than me," he said of Caine, who was five years older.

"Caine gave me all my early values, like making sure you were doing good stuff, waiting for the right things – then as soon as he got away he did exactly the opposite. Went from one movie to another."

After a few years away from the screen, Stamp appeared in the 1978 blockbuster Superman as the superhero's adversary, General Zod. He reprised the role of the comic book villain in the sequel two years later.

More than two decades later Stamp went on to voice the role of Superman's father Jor-El in the TV series Smallville.

His many screen credits also included his role as drag queen and trans woman Bernadette in the 1990s Australian comedy The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Of his eclectic career – including roles in Hollywood's Wall Street and The Adjustment Bureau – he told The Guardian that he had no ambitions, adding: "I've had bad experiences and things that didn't work out; my love for film sometimes diminishes but then it just resurrects itself.

"I never have to gee myself up, or demand a huge wage to get out of bed in the morning. I've done crap, because sometimes I didn't have the rent. But when I've got the rent, I want to do the best I can."

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Three people have been charged after a Melbourne father was allegedly stabbed with a machete while trying to fight against a gang who broke into his home in Kew East.

Police claim the 39-year-old man's wife was forced into a separate room with their two sleeping toddlers as the group sped off in the couple's car.

Two teenage boys, aged 16 and 17, along with a 24-year-old man have all been charged with multiple offences in relation to the incident, including false imprisonment, aggravated home invasion and intentionally cause serious injury.

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The "awful" incident even left senior detectives shaken.

"I've never seen anything like this, this is awful," Victoria Police's Leeanne Trusler said.

"There's nothing to indicate it being premeditated, they've just chosen this house and destroyed a family."

The gang of five arrived on Oxford Street just before 4am today.

Allegedly armed with a knife and machete, they used garden shears from the shed to smash a window.

Once inside, they forced the husband and wife into separate rooms and allegedly stabbed the 39-year-old man 11 times.

He was taken to hospital with a fractured arm, cuts to his face and will need to undergo eye surgery.

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His parents, aged 69 and 70, were allegedly also cut and bruised as they tried to help.

"They're not used to people fighting back, and this home owner fought back," Trusler  said.

"It's gotta stop. This has got to stop. Someone is going to be seriously hurt. Well, someone has now been seriously hurt. It's beyond a joke."

His two kids, just two and three years old, thankfully slept through the attack.

Their 34-year-old mother was treated for minor injuries while their nanny was uninjured.

Police say four of the offenders got into the victim's BMW, while the fifth offender allegedly left in the vehicle they arrived in.

Two males who are believed to have been involved in the incident remain on the run.

"Aggravated burglaries, that have got to one every hour across the state are now getting to the stage they are so violent that we've now seen a father stabbed with his children at home and each and every Victorian will feel that today," Victoria's Opposition Leader Brad Battin said.

The 24-year-old Caroline Springs man was remanded to appear at Melbourne Magistrates' Court in November.

The 17-year-old from the Frankston area and the 16-year-old also from the Caroline Springs area were both remanded to appear at a children's court at a later date.

Anyone who witnessed the incident, has CCTV/dashcam footage or any information that could assist police is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential report online.

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