Last week, an Australian-run offshore detention center housing hundreds of asylum seekers was closed down on Manus Island, a small key of Papua New Guinea. New facilities set up to receive them, ...

A Kurdish Iranian refugee who wrote an award-winning book via WhatsApp from inside an offshore Australian detention center where he'd been marooned for six years, finally left the island this week, ...

Refugee Behrouz Boochani poses for a photo on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, on Oct. 28, 2017. Refugee Behrouz Boochani poses for a photo on Manus Island, Papua New ...

(CANBERRA, Australia) — Papua New Guinea authorities said Friday they had relocated the last asylum seekers who had refused for three weeks to leave a closed immigration camp for fear they would face ...

The Australian government has agreed to pay detainees on Manus Island more than $70 million (US$52.75 million) in the "largest settlement in a human rights class-action" in the country's history. The ...

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Venezuelan military forces drove armoured vehicles and conducted weapons training for civilians in Caracas as tensions with the United States escalated over a U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean ...

Since October 31, hundreds of men have barricaded themselves in an abandoned complex on a naval base where security forces have previously shot at and attacked them. Exhausted, with no power and no ...