Donald Trump backs the $368 billion US-Australia submarine deal and is committed to ensuring off-the-shelf boats are delivered on time, his top defence official says.

A medevac plane has crashed in Philadelphia with a child and five others on board, the air ambulance company that operated it says, adding that it had not confirmed any survivors.

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