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US, Asia allies meet to deepen bulwark against China
The top diplomats of the United States, Australia, Japan and India opened talks in Melbourne Friday on deepening their Quad alliance, hoping to blunt China's expanding power across the Asia-Pacific region.
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Emotional snowboard legend White misses Olympic medal in farewell
Retiring American snowboard legend Shaun White missed out on a halfpipe medal at the Beijing Olympics on Friday in his final competition, finishing fourth, as Japan's Ayumu Hirano claimed gold.
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Russian skater Valieva tested positive for banned substance: Olympic testers
Russian skating sensation Kamila Valieva tested positive for a banned substance ahead of the Beijing Olympics before being cleared by her country, but the IOC will appeal against that decision, the Games' testers said Friday.
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What's next for TikTok's music industry revolution?
With a billion users, TikTok has rapidly become one of the most important players in the music industry, and now has its sights set on revolutionising the way artists are discovered and get paid.
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Smash hit TV drama 'Borgen' is back 10 years on
"Borgen" is back. The Danish political drama about a charismatic woman who becomes prime minister took the world by storm and morphed into one of Scandinavia's biggest television exports returns a decade on.
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Another journalist killed in Mexico, the fifth this year
A journalist was shot dead Thursday in Mexico, the fifth such killing this year in a country notoriously dangerous for reporters.
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Retiring snowboard legend White misses medal as Hirano wins halfpipe gold
Retiring American snowboard legend Shaun White missed out on a halfpipe medal at the Beijing Olympics on Friday in his final competition, finishing fourth, as Japan's Ayumu Hirano claimed gold.
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Apple aims to thwart secret AirTag tracking with tweaks
Apple on Thursday announced updates to AirTag coin-sized tracking devices to prevent them from being used to secretly track people instead of just finding lost keys, wallets or other items.
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Carbery's moment of truth arrives with Ireland in Paris
Joey Carbery has long been seen as Ireland playmaker Johnny Sexton's successor at fly-half and on Saturday he gets his chance to rubberstamp his credentials against a vibrant France in the Six Nations.
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Shunned by French studios, 'Amelie' director clinches Netflix deal
He made perhaps the most famous French film of the century so far with "Amelie", and now Jean-Pierre Jeunet says he'll make his new movie with Netflix after failing to find a traditional backer.
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