The election of a new prime minister in Vanuatu, Bob Loughman, is expected to speed up emergency relief work for residents of the Pacific island nation...
An Aboriginal man has launched legal action against Australia over what he argues is an attempt to deport him to Papua New Guinea (PNG). Daniel Love,...
A 12-year-old boy has been found alive in the wreckage of a plane crash which killed eight people in Indonesia. Photos from the scene show the...
Papua New Guinea will ban Facebook for a month while the government identifies fake accounts and attempts to block fake news. Communications Minister Sam Basil said on...
Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull has turned down a renewed offer from New Zealand to resettle some refugees from a Papua New Guinea detention centre. About 600...
Hundreds of fearful refugees were urged to leave an Australian detention camp in Papua New Guinea Wednesday as conditions worsened with power and water cut in...
Refugees held by Australia in Papua New Guinea have launched legal action over the closure of a detention centre. Australia holds asylum seekers arriving by boat...
Papua New Guinea has said that Australia is solely responsible for refugees who do not want to resettle in PNG when its detention centre closes. Australia...
A first wave of refugees will leave remote Pacific detention camps and be resettled in the US in coming weeks, Australian authorities said Wednesday, under a...
Prison guards have shot dead 17 inmates after a mass breakout at Buimo prison in Papua New Guinea. Three prisoners have been recaptured while 57 others...