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Nadal Turns 21 and Barty Ends a Barren Streak at the Australian Open

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYb_dNSw0ug The buildup to the 2022 Australian Open was dominated by the madcap antivax antics of the men's world number one tennis player Novak Djokovic, aided and abetted by the sly contraptions of Tennis Australia and the state of Victoria while the federal government, having seemingly abnegated all responsibility for player eligibility, then scrambled in a cack-handed bid to play...

Chiefs and Bills Close Out the Greatest Divisional Round in NFL History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOOiEcMyZf8 With Super Bowl LVI on the horizon and a spot in the conference championships at stake, the four games in the divisional round of the 2021-22 National Football League playoffs each went down to the dying seconds and one final kick. In what proved to be the greatest divisional round in the history of the playoffs, first up on Saturday...

Indonesia’s New Capital Will Be Called Nusantara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhKKoo06sis At the mouth of the Ciliwung River, with a bay which hosts the Thousand Islands and opens out onto the Pacific Ocean after traversing the Java Sea, the Indonesian capital of Jakarta is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in all of Southeast Asia. An important trading post which specialised in pepper, the harbour area of Sunda Kelapa...

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