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US to apply 'extreme vetting' in resettling deal with Australia
Published Wed, Feb 1, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Sydney
THE US will apply "extreme vetting" to up to 1,250 asylum seekers it has agreed to resettle as part of a deal with Australia, said a spokesman for President Donald Trump on Tuesday.
Washington agreed on a deal late last year to resettle asylum seekers - mainly from Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq - held in Australia's processing centres on remote Pacific islands in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
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