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With a menu of "comforting" food and instrumental sounds rather than dance party music, the White House set out Wednesday to throw a state dinner that balanced the desire to celebrate ties to a close U.S. ally with an effort to strike a measured tone at a time of mounting death and suffering unfolding in the Middle East.
The state visit for Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was planned months ago. But the Middle East crisis prompted the White House to change the tenor of the event.
The White House is hosting a state dinner to celebrate U.S. relations with Australia while paying heed to the death and suffering unfolding in the Middle East
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The White House has scrapped plans to have the B-52s perform at Wednesday's state dinner for Australia's prime minister.