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FILE - In this July 7, 2019, file photo, United States' Megan Rapinoe lifts up a trophy after winning the Women's World Cup final soccer match between U.S. and The Netherlands at the Stade de Lyon in Decines, outside Lyon, France. The 2023 Women's World Cup will be spread across nine cities in Australia and New Zealand. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Nine host cities announced for 2023 Women’s World Cup

Associated Press

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks during the opening of Raytheon Australia's Centre for Joint Integration in Adelaide, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Australia announced Wednesday it would begin building its own guided missiles in close collaboration with the U.S. as it seeks to boost its defense capabilities. Citing the &quot;changing global environment,” Morrison said it would partner with a weapons manufacturer to build the missiles in a plan that would create thousands of jobs as well as export opportunities. (Morgan Sette/AAP Image via AP)

Australia to build guided missiles to boost defense capacity

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 25, 2021, file photo, a woman looks at debris caught on a submerged bridge in Windsor, northwest of Sydney, Australia. Over recent times, Australia has endured droughts, fires, floods, even a plague of marauding mice.(AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

Australia endures droughts, fires, floods and marauding mice

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

Australian envoy reportedly describes China as ‘vindictive’

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 9, 2013, file photo, Artemis Racing CEO Paul Cayard pauses during a news conference in Alameda, Calif. Cayard has raced in the America's Cup, the Olympics and was the first American skipper to win one of sailing's toughest challenges, the Whitbread Round the World Race. Now he faces another arduous task, guiding the underperforming U.S. Olympic sailing team as its new executive director. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Cayard takes helm of underperforming US Olympic sailing team

By BERNIE WILSON - Associated Press

Buildings are partially submerged as floodwater covers large areas northwest of Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. Some 18,000 residents of Australia's most populous state have fled their homes since last week, with warnings the flood cleanup could stretch into April. (Lukas Coch/Pool Photo via AP)

2 trapped drivers become first Australian flood fatalities

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Australia lists neo-Nazi Sonnenkrieg Division as terrorists

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FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2015 file photo, Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, then head of Israel's ZAKA rescue service, center, stands next to the body of an Israeli killed in a shooting by a Palestinian attacker, in Jerusalem. On Sunday, March 14, 2021, the Israeli police announced that the force's major crimes unit, Lahav 433, had opened an investigation into sexual abuse allegations against Meshi-Zahav. In recent days, some 20 people have come forward with claims that he was a savage sexual predator who assaulted men, women and children for years. (AP Photo Oded Balilty, File)

Sex abuse allegations pile up against Israeli rescue chief

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Morrison said Australian government is ramping up its COVID-19 vaccination support for Papua New Guinea in a bid to contain a concerning wave of infections in a near-neighbor. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

Australia gives COVID-19 shots to virus-hit Papua New Guinea

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

In this photo released by Government Spokesman Office, Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, front left, receives a shot of the AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine at government house in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. (Government Spokesman Office via AP)

Thai PM gets AstraZeneca jab, 1 Asian country suspends

By PATRICK QUINN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2021, file photo, employees pack boxes containing vials of COVID-19 vaccine at Serum Institute of India in Pune, India. Serum Institute of India has been contracted to manufacture a billion doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine. President Joe Biden and fellow leaders of the Indo Pacific alliance known as “the Quad” will announce on Friday, March 12, a plan to expand coronavirus vaccine manufacturing capacity in India, according to administration officials. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

US, Indo-Pacific allies to expand India’s vaccine production

By AAMER MADHANI - Associated Press

From left to right, Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pose for a picture before a four Indo-Pacific nations' foreign ministers meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020. (Nicolas Datiche/Pool Photo via AP)

Joe Biden to host first Quad meeting between U.S., India, Australia and Japan

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 28, 2020, file photo Pro-democracy lawmaker Ted Hui, center, struggles with security personnel at the main chamber of the Legislative Council during the second day of debate on a bill that would criminalize insulting or abusing the Chinese anthem in Hong Kong. Former Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker and activist Ted Hui Chi-fung said, Wednesday, March 10, 2021, he had relocated to Australia where he would continue campaigning against the Chinese Communist Party. (AP Photo, FILE)

Former Hong Kong anti-Beijing lawmaker moves to Australia

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In thisNov. 25, 2005, file image taken from video, Sean Turnell, an economist at Australia's Macquarie University, speaks during an interview at his university office in Sydney. Australia has suspended its defense cooperation with Myanmar and is redirecting humanitarian aid because of the military takeover of the government and ongoing detention of an Australian citizen. Foreign Minister Marise Payne said on Monday, March 8, 2021 that Australian diplomats only had access to economic policy adviser Turnell twice since he was detained in early February. She described the access as “very limited consular support.” (Australian Broadcasting Corporation via AP, File)

Australia ends defense cooperation with Myanmar over coup

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, center, and Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield, right, talk to media in Wellington, New Zealand Monday, Feb. 15, 2021. As people in Auckland adjusted to a new lockdown on Monday, health officials said they'd found no evidence the coronavirus had spread further in the community, raising hopes the restrictions might be short-lived. (AP Photo/Nick Perry)

New Zealand Warriors set to play 4 months in Australia

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FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 19, 2021 file photo, a pharmacist prepares a syringe from a vial of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine during preparations at the Vaccine Village in Antwerp, Belgium. A shipment of a quarter million AstraZeneca vaccines destined for Australia has been barred from leaving the European Union in the first use of an export control system instituted by the bloc over a month ago. An EU official, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue, confirmed a report that first appeared in the Financial Times. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

France backs Italy in vaccine ban as EU defends mechanism

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

A healthcare worker administers a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to a Brussels police chief inspector Didier Bruer at the Brussels Expo center in Brussels, Thursday, March 4, 2021. The Expo is one of the largest vaccination centers in Belgium. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

EU, Italy stop AstraZeneca vaccine exports to Australia

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

FILE - Oklahoma's Nicole Mendes (11) and Kelsey Arnold (3) celebrate scoring in the fifth inning during the Women's College World Series softball game between the against Oregon at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, in this Sunday, June 4, 2017. Division I softball is providing a training ground this season for players preparing for the 2021 Olympics. Oklahoma’s Nicole Mendes and North Carolina State’s Tatyana Forbes will play for Mexico, their schools said. (Sarah Phipps/The Oklahoman via AP, File)

College softball an anchor for Olympic hopefuls in pandemic

By CLIFF BRUNT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 5, 2016, file photo, a couple sit on a dock to look at the sails of the Sydney Opera House that are illuminated with the green and gold colors of the Australian Olympic team. An Australian push to host the 2032 Olympics was elevated overnight to the status of preferred bid, and the people of Brisbane and southeast Queensland state woke up to the news Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

How and why the IOC could find a 2032 Olympic host so soon

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Unfriended no more: Facebook to lift Australia news ban

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press