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The Territory of Christmas Island is a territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean. It is northwest of the Western Australian city of Perth, south of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, ENE of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and west of the Territorian city of Darwin.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Malaysia and Australia sealed a pact Monday to swap refugees in a contentious new strategy aimed at deterring asylum seekers from undertaking perilous boat journeys to Australia.
The deal will see Australia send 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia over the next four years in exchange for Australia resettling 4,000 registered refugees currently languishing in this Southeast Asian nation.Both governments announced the deal in May but were forced to fine-tune it amid objections by opposition politicians in their countries and human rights groups that criticize the treatment of about 93,000 refugees now living in Malaysia, which has not signed the U.N. Convention on Refugees.Malaysian Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein and Australian Immigration Minister Chris Bowen signed the agreement at a Kuala Lumpur hotel, where about 15 opposition-backed activists gathered to protest the plan.Bowen called it a "bold and cutting-edge deal," adding that the 800 asylum seekers sent by Australia will be allowe...Ten asylum seekers at an Australian detention center have sewn their lips together to protest delays in processing their refugee applications, as the government warn...
A wooden boat packed with asylum seekers smashed against jagged rocks in a storm off an Australian island Wednesday, flinging terrified occupants into churning water...
A wooden boat packed with asylum seekers smashed against jagged rocks in a storm off an Australian island Wednesday, flinging terrified occupants into churning water...
A wooden boat packed with asylum seekers smashed against jagged rocks in a storm off an Australian island Wednesday, flinging terrified occupants into churning water...
A wooden boat packed with asylum seekers smashed against jagged rocks in a storm off an Australian island Wednesday, flinging terrified occupants into churning water...
A wooden boat packed with dozens of asylum seekers smashed apart on jagged rocks in heavy seas off an Australian island Wednesday, flinging screaming women and child...
Australian police charged a man with people smuggling Thursday in connection with a deadly boat crash on a remote island that killed 48 asylum seekers.The 40-year-ol...
SYDNEY -- More than a dozen asylum seekers unaccounted for since their boat smashed into rocky cliffs off an Australian island may never be found, the prime minister...
More than a dozen asylum seekers unaccounted for since their boat smashed into rocky cliffs off an Australian island may never be found, the prime minister said Mond...
Australian authorities charged three Indonesian men with people smuggling after their rickety boat smashed into cliffs along a remote Australian island in December, ...
Three Indonesian men were charged with people smuggling after a rickety boat they were on smashed into cliffs along a remote Australian island in December, killing a...
SYDNEY -- The number of asylum seekers believed killed when their boat smashed into rocky cliffs along an Australian island has risen to 48.Thirty bodies have been r...
A government plan to swap refugees with Malaysia will be challenged in Australia's highest court on the grounds that it will permanently separate a Kurdish refugee f...
A United Nations organization urged Australia on Friday not to expel 14 asylum-seeking children to Malaysia as part of a refugee swap deal, but the government said s...
Rescuers battled high waves Sunday as they searched for 200 asylum seekers still missing after their wooden ship sank off Indonesia's main island of Java. So far, on...
SYDNEY (AP) — Australia's new leader proposed Tuesday that East Timor become a U.N.-approved processing hub for asylum seekers as a way to stem a recent influx of bo...
No new survivors of a horrific boat crash that killed at least 28 asylum seekers were found in the churning waters off an Australian island Thursday, more than 24 ho...
Rescue teams resumed scouring the Christmas Island coastline and surrounding sea Saturday in a dwindling hope for any more survivors from a deadly crash of a boat fu...
A boat load of 32 asylum seekers found in Australian waters will become the first to be sent to Malaysia, Papua New Guinea or another Asia-Pacific country under the ...
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