SYDNEY - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Wednesday the first group of about 50 men and woman held in two controversial detention centers for asylum-seekers on remote Pacific islands will be resettled in the United States within weeks.
WASHINGTON - The US Senate overwhelmingly authorized $700 billion in military spending on Monday, a substantial increase over 2017 funding and nearly 5 percent more than President Donald Trump had requested.
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Monday that the United States would send more than 3,000 troops to Afghanistan. "It is exactly over 3,000 somewhat and frankly I haven't signed the last of the orders right now as we look at specific, small elements that are going," Mattis told reporters.
ROSEAU, Dominica - Hurricane Maria battered the Caribbean island of Dominica on Tuesday, with its prime minister predicting potentially grave losses and mass destruction as winds and rain from the Category Five storm barreled into territories still reeling from Irma.
The United Kingdom and Canada said on Monday they hope to have a free-trade agreement modeled on Canada's deal with the European Union, once London leaves the bloc.
After a five-day stay in the port of Antwerp in northern Belgium, China's 26th convoy fleet left on the next stop of its European tour on Tuesday.
TOKYO - Japan has to truly reflect upon its invasive history, otherwise "it won't be able to rebuild trust with its Asian neighbors", said Masahito Sato, founder of a civil group in Japan dedicated to studying the history of Japan's invasion of China's Hainan Island during World War II.
NEW YORK - US President Donald Trump's childhood home in New York had some new occupants over the weekend - refugees who shared their stories as a way to draw attention to the migrant crisis as the United Nations General Assembly convenes this week with Trump in attendance.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - A second powerful storm in as many weeks was bearing down on a string of battered Caribbean islands, with forecasters saying Maria would strengthen rapidly into a major hurricane as it ripped into the Leeward Islands on Monday night.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - The world's oldest person has died in Jamaica. Violet Brown was 117 years and 189 days old.
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