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, ...

(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 ...

For years, Australia has employed a controversial policy for migrants coming by sea without proper documents for entry: It sends them to offshore holding facilities. The law was passed in 2013, during ...

The fifth pillar of Islam, the hajj is mandatory once in a lifetime for every able-bodied Muslim who can afford it and is considered one of the largest mass gatherings in the world.

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