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US Defense Secretary Austin expected to leave hospital Tuesday -Pentagon

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is expected to leave a military hospital later on Tuesday after undergoing nonsurgical procedures to address a bladder issue a day earlier, the Pentagon said.

Austin, who is 70, has been hospitalized twice this year following a December surgery to treat prostate cancer. He had failed to disclose his surgery to the White House as well as a subsequent hospitalization in January to deal with its complications, triggering a political uproar.