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Unidentified Crown Resorts employees wearing face masks are escorted by securities as they leave the Baoshan District People's Court after attending her trial in Shanghai, China, Monday, June 26, 2017. Australian and Chinese employees of a casino company on Monday pleaded guilty to charges relating to gambling and the three Australians were sentenced to nine or 10 months' imprisonment, an Australian official said. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China sentences 16 from Australia’s Crown Resorts to prison

By Louise Watt and Andy Wong - Associated Press

Cameroon's Andre Frank Zambo Anguissa, center, celebrates with teammate Vincent Aboubakar, right, after scoring his side's first goal during the Confederations Cup, Group B soccer match between Cameroon and Australia, at the St. Petersburg Stadium, Russia, Thursday, June 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Cameroon’s Aboubakar lets Australia off hook at Confed Cup

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Cameroon's coach Hugo Broos attends a training session in St.Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, June 20, 2017. Cameroon will play Australia in a Confederations Cup, Group B soccer match scheduled for Thursday, June 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Late buses, busy roads disrupt Cameroon team plans in Russia

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Australia's Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton speaks to reporters in Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. The Australian minister said U.S. officials are &quot;in the final stages&quot; of vetting up to 1,250 refugees rejected by Australia for resettlement in the United States. The refugees are among hundreds of asylum seekers — mostly from Iran, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka — who have been languishing for up to four years in immigration camps on the impoverished Pacific island nations of Papua New Guinea and Nauru. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)

Australia: US vetting of Pacific island refugees nearly done

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Germany's Leon Goretzka is congratulated by teammates after he scored his side's third goal during the Confederations Cup, Group B soccer match between Australia and Germany, at the Fisht Stadium in Sochi, Russia, Monday, June 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Germany’s inexperience highlighted while beating Australia

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Ian Hardy, 79, the first Australian U.N police officers in the island 53 years ago, is seen during a flag-lowering ceremony to ended Australia's peacekeeping contribution in Cyprus, inside the U.N buffer zone in divided capital Nicosia, Friday, June 16, 2017. After 53 years of helping to keep the peace on ethnically divided Cyprus, Australia is calling it quits and pulling out its last three police officers serving with a United Nations peacekeeping force. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

53 years later, Australia leaves Cyprus peacekeeping force

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

Australia set to bid for 2023 Women’s World Cup

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, and White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting, Monday, June 12, 2017, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Donald Trump moves to accept hundreds of refugees from Iran under Obama deal

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Irvine: World Cup stakes no influence on Australia’s preps

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Construction workers leave flowers near the attack scene at London Bridge following Saturday's attack Monday June 5, 2017. (Isabel Infantes/PA via AP)

The Latest: Australia fears for missing nanny in London

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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, right, and U.S. Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis participate in talks at Government House in Sydney for the 2017 Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) Monday, June 5, 2017 in this file photo. Mr. Tillerson on June 9 called on an easing of the blockade of Qatar by member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council. (Mark Metcalfe/Pool Photo via AP)

Mattis: US and allies ‘don’t scare’ in face of IS attacks

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Singapore defense talks focus on online terror fight

By ANNABELLE LIANG - Associated Press

In this May 25, 2017 photo, environmental activists voice their opposition to Indian miner Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine, outside Parliament House in Brisbane, Australia. The Carmichael coal project, a massive 22 billion Australian dollar ($16.5 billion) mine that Indian resource billionaire Gautam Adani hopes to start work on this year in the remote Galilee Basin, has created an extraordinary clash between the resource and environment sectors. (Dan Peled/AAP Image via AP)

Priorities of coral and coal clash in Aussie Sunshine State

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Australian girl on vacation killed in Baghdad car bomb blast

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Australian independent Sen. Derryn Hinch holds a press conference in Parliament House in Canberra, Australia Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Hinch welcomes government support for legislation that he helped draft which would ban convicted pedophiles from traveling overseas in what the government says is a world-first move to protect vulnerable children in Southeast Asia from exploitation. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)

Australia plans to ban pedophiles from traveling overseas

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Britain's Johanna Konta plays a shot against Taiwan's Su-Wei Hsieh during their first round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, France. Tuesday, May 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

The Latest: Tsonga on brink of early French Open exit

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U.S. Sen. John McCain has a discussion after delivering a speech at the invitation of the United States Studies Centre in Sydney, Tuesday, May 30, 2017. In February, the Republican senator leaped to Australia's defense after President Donald Trump got into a heated discussion with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over an Obama-era agreement on the resettlement of refugees. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

McCain urges Australia to stick by US despite Trump jitters

By KRISTEN GELINEAU - Associated Press

Hrustic in Socceroos squad for WCup qualifier, Confed Cup

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Ben and Jerry's is banning customers from ordering two scoops of the same flavor in its 26 stores across Australia as an act of protest against the country's gay marriage ban. (Ben and Jerry's)

Ben and Jerry’s bans ordering ‘same flavor’ scoops in Australian shops, protesting gay marriage ban

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times