The island country is known for its idyllic scenery, with a coral reef, white-sand beaches and swaying palms, but also has a dark history of foreign domination.

IT’S early morning and I have just been woken by a pair of cackling kookaburras. The sky is cloudless blue and the temperature is already in the twenties. I’m in Australia, a nation of immigrants, ...

Young refugees freed from Australian detention are then trapped by bridging visas that ban them from studying, deepening the damage inflicted by the immigration regime.

The scheme allows investors to secure Nauru citizenship for US$105,000 within four months of their application. Clark said the programme was established as an innovative way to finance some of the ...

And during his first term, Trump imposed visa restrictions on people from Cambodia ... Similarly, the small South Pacific island nation of Nauru was paid more than $118 million with the aim of hosting ...

Under international law, countries are obligated to receive their own citizens who are deported by another country. But in practice, there are often ways to push back. Countries can block deportation ...

Nauru, a tiny island nation in the Pacific Ocean, is one of the only sovereign states without a designated capital city.

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Dozens of refugees who arrived in Australia by boat a decade ago and expected to resettle in the United States have been affected by the Trump Administration's freeze on refugee ...

"Nauru remains ready to receive and process any new unauthorised maritime arrivals, future-proofing Australia's response to maritime people smuggling," the department spokesperson said. Australia ...

Australia said on Wednesday it would enlist indigenous Aboriginal rangers to patrol its vast and remote northern coastline amid an influx of illegal fishing boats that have also been used by people ...