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Brazil's Marta reacts during the Women's World Cup Group C soccer match between Italy and Brazil at the Stade du Hainaut in Valenciennes, France, Tuesday, June 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

World Cup’s top teams enter knockout stage on a roll

By ANNE M. PETERSON - Associated Press

Australia's Sam Kerr celebrates after scoring her side's third goal during the Women's World Cup Group C soccer match between Jamaica and Australia at Stade des Alpes stadium in Grenoble, France, Tuesday, June 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Australia’s offense led by prolific scorer Sam Kerr

By DANIELLA MATAR - Associated Press

Belgian dad pleas for help to find son missing in Australia

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 5, 2019, file image made from video, Australia's Federal Police, top, enter the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster, during a raid on their offices in Sydney, Australia. Australia's opposition has called for a parliamentary inquiry into press freedom after police raids on a media organization's Sydney headquarters and a journalist's Canberra home last week. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation via AP, File)

Australian opposition calls for review of press freedom

By ROD McGUIRK and NICK PERRY - Associated Press

New Zealand plans to withdraw all Iraq troops by next June

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2019, file photo, Australian tennis legends Evonne Goolagong Cawley and Rod Laver hold the women's and men's trophies, the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup and the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup at the official start of the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia. Goolagong Cawley says fellow indigenous athlete Ashleigh Barty’s first Grand Slam singles title at the French Open was “a joy to watch.” (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Goolagong Cawley says Barty’s French Open win ‘joy to watch’

By DENNIS PASSA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2019, file photo, Cardinal George Pell arrives at the County Court in Melbourne, Australia. Pell, the most senior Catholic convicted of child sex abuse will soon ask an Australian appeals court to reverse convictions on charges of molesting two choirboys in a cathedral more than 20 years ago. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill, File)

Prosecutors: Australian cardinal’s convictions should stand

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Australian Home Minister Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, center, addresses the media as Sri Lanka's navy commander Piyal De Silva, left, and the head of Operation Australia's Sovereign Borders Major General Craig Furini watch in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. Dutton has laid a wreath and offered condolences for the Easter Sunday bomb attacks in Sri Lanka on a visit to the South Asian island nation. Dutton visited St. Sebastian's Church in the seaside town of Negombo, one of three churches attacked April 21. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Australia emphasizes tough stance on people smuggling

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press

In this image made from video, police proceed to apprehend a suspect on the ground next to a white truck, Tuesday, June 4, 2019, in Darwin Australia. Media reports say a gunman has killed at least four people in the Australian city of Darwin. Northern Territory Police Duty Superintendent Lee Morgan says a 45-year-old man was in custody following Tuesday's shooting. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation via AP)

Gunman out on parole kills 4 in Australian city of Darwin

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2019, file photo, Cardinal George Pell arrives at the County Court in Melbourne, Australia. Pell, the most senior Catholic convicted of child sex abuse will soon ask an Australian appeals court to reverse convictions on charges of molesting two choirboys in a cathedral more than 20 years ago. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill, File)

Australian cardinal set to appeal child sex convictions

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

In this May 7, 2019, photo, the Reserve Bank of Australia building in Sydney. Australia’s central bank has cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to a new record low of 1.25 percent in the first rate change in almost three years. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP Image via AP)

Australia cuts key interest rate to record low 1.25%

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

A Chinese naval ship is seen as it docks with two others, after arriving at Garden Island Naval Base in Sydney, Monday, June 3, 2019. Three Chinese warships arrived in Sydney Harbor on Monday morning on a four-day visit. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the Chinese ships had come to Sydney on their way home from the Middle East on a reciprocal visit after Australian warships had traveled to China.(Peter Rae/AAP Image via AP)

Australia prime minister offers more aid to Solomon Islands

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, April 12, 2019, file photo, Cheryl Juaire of Marlborough, Mass., center, leads protesters near the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Juaire, whose son was addicted to opioids and died of a heroin overdose in 2011, led the demonstration by parents who’ve lost children in the addiction epidemic. They want the Sackler family name removed from the building at Harvard. In New York, there’s a Sackler Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and a Sackler Center for Arts Education at The Guggenheim. There’s a Sackler Room at the National Gallery in London, a Sackler Wing of Oriental Antiquities at the Louvre. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

AP: Purdue foreign arm caught up in opioid probe in Europe

By CLAIRE GALOFARO and FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Officers from the Ministry of Environment examine a container full of non-recyclable plastic which was detained by authorities at the west port in Klang, Malaysia, Tuesday, May 28, 2019. Malaysia environment minister Yeo Bee Yin says Malaysia has become a dumping ground for the world's plastic waste, and the country has begun sending non-recyclable plastic scrap to the developed countries of origin. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Malaysia to send back plastic waste to foreign nations

Associated Press

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, second right, is sworn in by Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove, right, at Government House in Canberra, Wednesday, May 29, 2019. The 46th parliament is expected to open in the first week of July. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

Morrison sworn in as Australia’s prime minister

By TREVOR MARSHALLSEA - Associated Press

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, center, embraces his daughters Lily, right, and Abbey, after his opponent concedes defeat in the federal election in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, May 19, 2019. Australia's ruling conservative coalition, lead by Morrison, won a surprise victory in the country's general election, defying opinion polls that had tipped the center-left opposition party to oust it from power and promising an end to the revolving door of national leaders. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Morrison thanks Australians for surprise election victory

By TREVOR MARSHALLSEA - Associated Press

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to party supporters after his opponent concedes defeat in the federal election in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, May 19, 2019. Australia's ruling conservative coalition, lead by Morrison, won a surprise victory in the country's general election, defying opinion polls that had tipped the center-left opposition party to oust it from power and promising an end to the revolving door of national leaders. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Scott Morrison thanks Australia for surprise election victory

By Trevor Marshallsea - Associated Press

Australian Labor Party leader Bill Shorten, right, pauses after placing a floral tribute to the late former Australian Prime Minster Bob Hawke at the Opera House in Sydney, Friday, May 17, 2019. A federal election will be held in Australian on Saturday May 18, 2019. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

Polls open in Australian election; opposition tipped to win

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 14, 2013, file photo, a group of Vietnamese asylum seekers are taken by barge to a jetty on Australia's Christmas Island. The policy differences between the two major political parties vying for power at Australian elections on Saturday, May 18, 2019, have been described as the widest divide at a federal contest in 26 years. The Liberal-led government has all but stopped asylum-seekers from coming to Australia by boats after 50,000 arrived on Australian shores during Labor’s most recent six years in office. (AP Photo, File)

Policy differences at stake in Australian federal election

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Australian rugby union player Israel Folau leaves a Code of Conduct hearing in Sydney, Sunday, May 5, 2019. The 30-year-old Folau appeared before the hearing to fight Rugby Australia's decision to terminate his contract after he posted in mid-April on social media that gay people, along with other &quot;sinners,&quot; will face damnation unless they repent. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi)

Folau fired by Rugby Australia for contentious online posts

By John Pye - Associated Press