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List 3/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

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FILE - In this Saturday, April 4, 2020, file photo, Carnival cruise line ship Carnival Magic is docked at Port Canaveral, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Carnival Cruise Line is canceling most U.S. sailings through the end of this year, the latest sign that the cruise industry’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic could still be many months away. The company said Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, it is canceling sailings from all ports except its home ports of Miami and Port Canaveral, Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Carnival Cruise Line cancels Florida, Australia trips

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List 4/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

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Las Vegas Aces' Liz Cambage, of Australia, plays against the Washington Mystics during the first half of Game 4 of a WNBA playoff basketball series Sept. 24, 2019, in Las Vegas. The Australian Women's National Basketball League says, Friday, Oct. 9, 2020, because of restrictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the eight teams will relocate to Queensland state and operate in a bio-security bubble for the duration of the regular season. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Australian women’s league moves north to Queensland

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Australia's Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is photographed outside The Treasury in Canberra, Monday, Oct. 5, 2020. The Australian government will reveal a big spending financial blueprint for the next few years that will drive business investment and job creation while repairing pandemic damage to the economy. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Australia expects COVID-19 vaccination is still a year away

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2012, file photo, Big John the Tasmanian devil growls from the confines of his tree house as he makes his first appearance at the Wild Life Sydney Zoo in Sydney. Tasmanian devils, the carnivorous marsupials whose feisty, frenzied eating habits won the animals cartoon fame, have returned to mainland Australia for the first time in some 3,000 years. Conservation groups have recently released some cancer-free devils in a wildlife refuge on the mainland, and they plan to release more in the coming years. Their hope is that the species will thrive and improve the biodiversity. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

Feisty Tasmanian devils roaming Australian mainland again

By VICTORIA MILKO - Associated Press

Cardinal George Pell has a drink in a cafe at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020. Cardinal George Pell, who left the Vatican in 2017 to face child sexual abuse charges in Australia, returned to Rome on Wednesday to find a Holy See mired in the type of corruption scandal he worked to expose and clean up. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Cardinal Pell accuser denies bribe as Vatican intrigue grows

By NICOLE WINFIELD and ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Australia plans big spending pandemic measures, record debt

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

In this Oct. 2, 2020, file photo, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, with Croatia's Foreign Minister Gordan Grlic Radman, arrives for a press conference after talks in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The foreign ministers from four Indo-Pacific nations known as the Quad group will gather in Tokyo Wednesday for talks in hopes of stepping up their cooperation and take leadership in a regional initiative to counter China’s growing assertiveness and influence. On his way to Tokyo, Pompeo told traveling reporters that the four countries have been preparing and hoped to have some “significant achievements” at the meeting, but he did not elaborate. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

Mike Pompeo confronts ‘Asian NATO’ hurdles in Asian allies meeting

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Texas-born Mason Cox a star in Australian Rules Football

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In this Oct. 1, 2019, file photo, Chinese tank crew members salute during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

China military might spur talks of ‘Asian NATO’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

‘Early discussions’ over more South African teams in PRO14

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

Whale carcasses are scattered along the water's edge near Strahan, Australia, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. Authorities revised up the number of pilot whales rescued from Australia's worst-ever mass stranding from 50 to 70 on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, as the focus shifted to removing 380 carcasses from Tasmania state shallows. (Patrick Gee/Pool Photo via AP)

88 whales rescued from Australia’s worst mass beaching

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

Christmas alone? NZ upset with Rugby Championship schedule

By STEVE McMORRAN - Associated Press

Pilot whales lie stranded on a sand bar near Strahan, Australia, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. An estimated 250 whales are stuck on sandy shoals and government marine conservation staff have been deployed to the scene to attempt to rescue the whales. (Brodie Weeding/Pool Photo via AP)

Australian rescuers save 25 of 270 stranded whales so far

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Coronavirus takes it slow and steady in Australian football

By DENNIS PASSA - Associated Press

This Feb. 27, 2018, file photo, Australian Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem. An Israeli court on Monday, Sert. 21, 2020, approved the extradition of the former teacher wanted in Australia on charges of child sex abuse, paving the way for her to stand trial after a six-year legal battle. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Israel court says woman can be extradited in child sex case

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

Aussie reporter says China threatened to detain his daughter

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Briton, Aussie killed in Solomon Islands by WWII bomb blast

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Northern Territory Government, a humpback whale swims in the East Alligator River in the Kakadu National Park in Australia's Northern Territory, on Sept. 10, 2020. Whales have never been seen before in the East Alligator River in the Northern Territory's World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park and no one can explain why at least three of the blue water mammals ventured so deep inland in a river with almost zero visibility. (Northern Territory Government via AP)

Whale swims free of Australian river as 270 are stranded

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press