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Harry Styles raised over $1.2 million for charities around the world with his huge global tour.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says her country is not taking a position on competing claims to the South China Sea. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)
Australia has denied remarks by a US official that it will station extra military in Australia as part of its continuing efforts to deter China’s growing influence in the South China Sea, saying that the US official misspoke.
Park Geun-hye becomes South Korea's first female president. Next, health workers are in the firing line in Pakistan. Finally, Chinese artist Yue Minjun brings his grinning self-portraits to Paris. Dozens of his works and more than a hundred sketches are being put on display, making it the artist's single largest exhibition, and his first major show in Europe.
China says it "poses no threat" to any country, after Australia's first National Defence Strategy signalled a new focus on deterring Beijing's "coercive tactics". "China poses no threat to any country," foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian says in a briefing, urging Canberra to "refrain from making accusations against China at every turn". SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).