Sydney: The United States will honour a controversial agreement with Australia to take refugees from Pacific island detention centres, Vice-President Mike Pence said – a deal Donald Trump had previously branded “dumb”.
Pence also sought to clear the waters about the location of US super-carrier Carl Vinson that was supposedly steaming towards North Korea, saying it would arrive in the Sea of Japan “in a matter of days”.
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