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One thing you should know: Novak Djokovic's visa has been cancelled
The Australian government has confirmed that the entry visa for Novak Djokovic has been cancelled.
Djokovic touched down at Melbourne's Tullamarine airport on Wednesday about 11:30pm AEDT after a 14-hour flight from Dubai.
Earlier today, the 34-year-old tennis player was still being held by Australian Border Force officials at the airport.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Novak Djokovic is not welcome in Australia and will be deported, after the tennis star was denied entry to the country while stranded at Melbourne airport due to a visa issue.
"Entry with a visa requires double vaccination or a medical exemption," Mr Morrison said.
"I am advised that such an exemption was not in place and, as such, he is subject to the same rules as anyone else.
"People are welcome in Australia, but if you're not double-vaccinated and you're not a resident or citizen, then you can't come."
One thing you’ll be hearing about today: It's been one year since the US Capitol riots
Few will forget the image of Jacob Chansley, shirtless, painted and wearing a horned headdress, yelling in the US Senate chamber on January 6, 2021.
The unprecedented breach of the US Capitol one year ago has been described as one of the most recorded, videoed and posted about criminal acts in history.
The FBI says more than 700 people have been charged over the assault on the Capitol, but its investigation remains ongoing and more charges are still possible as it combs through the vast amount of footage from the day.
Here's what happened to the people in some of January 6's most confronting images.
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Emmanuel Macron — The French President said that he wanted to "piss off" unvaccinated people by making their lives so complicated they would end up getting jabbed. He was speaking in an interview with Le Parisien newspaper in which he also called unvaccinated people irresponsible and unworthy of being considered citizens
Kazakhstan — Protesters in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, have stormed the presidential residence and mayor's office and set both buildings on fire, according to news reports, as demonstrations sparked by a rise in LPG prices in the Central Asian nation escalated sharply
Craig Ruddy — The Archibald Prize-winning artist died from complications due to COVID-19 in northern New South Wales
News while you snoozed
Grammys — The awards ceremony has been postponed due to what organisers called "too many risks" due to the Omicron variant. No new date has been announced. The ceremony had been scheduled for January 31 in Los Angeles with a live audience and performances
Ash Barty — The world number one was plagued by unforced errors but displayed plenty of fight on her return to the WTA Tour as she rallied from a set down to beat American Coco Gauff 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 at the Adelaide International on Wednesday night
Plessy pardon — Louisiana's governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 led to the Supreme Court ruling that cemented "separate but equal" into US law for half a century
One more thing
Croatian rescuers are praising a dog who protected its injured owner from freezing to death, high on a snowy mountain, keeping him warm for 13 hours in the dark until he could get medical attention.
"Friendship and love between man and dog know no boundaries," the county's mountain rescue service wrote on Twitter on Tuesday, with a photo of the dog lying on top of his master on a stretcher.
"[North] curled beside him and warmed him with his body," the rescue service's post said.
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