WASHINGTON, D.C.: US President Donald Trump defended the government relief response to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) and promised to visit the island next week.

Trump also said that he would travel to the US Virgin Islands, another American territory in the Caribbean that was slammed by a pair of powerful storms.

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