SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull sought to allay concerns on Monday that a deal to send refugees from remote Pacific camps to the United States could be scuppered by President-elect Donald Trump.

Canberra on Sunday announced a “one-off” arrangement that would see an unspecified number of the 1,600 boatpeople held in offshore processing centers on Nauru and in Papua New Guinea settled in the US.

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