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Australian winter music festival Splendour In the Grass has announced it won't return for 2025, after cancelling last year's festival two weeks after the official line-up was announced.

(Photo: Reuters) US President Donald Trump appears to be taking leaves out of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s style of politics as he starts his second term. Trump has started his second term ...

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