Closing detention centre will hit Nauru hard: minister
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Australia's plans to close a much-criticised detention centre for asylum seekers on Nauru will devastate its economy, the tiny Pacific nation's foreign minister was quoted Wednesday as saying.
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The Bush administration said top officials were once again debating how and when to close the detention facilities.
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Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on Wednesday wrapped up his two-day North Korea visit focusing on a stand-off over the communist state&#39;s nuclear ambitions by saying the international community faced a &quot;long, hard process ahead&quot; to solve the ...
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The opposition Labor Party asked the government on Wednesday to explain if the release of an Australian terror suspect held for three years at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was linked to his claims he was tortured while under U.S. supervision in Egypt.
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The first camp for people displaced by Uganda's civil war is set to close, in a sign of improved security.
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Public and press demands over the supervision of criminals cannot be met because the probation service is facing a tightening "squeeze", a government inspector warned today.
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Jail system could implode in two weeks, says union.
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Nationalists want to know if a  minister agreed to the unescorted outing of a violent schizophrenic prisoner.
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The Australian government's plan to process asylum-seekers in remote Pacific island camps was on a knife-edge after a key lawmaker vowed to vote against the controversial legislation.
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The United States wants to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay but needs assurances that detainees won&#039;t pose a security risk or face torture when they&#039;re sent to other countries, a senior U.S. State Department official said Monday.
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The withdrawal of the National Religious Party (NRP) from the coalition will add to the government&#39;s problems in passing the 2005 budget.
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Australia's new immigration minister surprised a senate committee Tuesday by saying he had too much power and was uncomfortable "playing God" with people's lives.
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SYDNEY - Pressure built for an Indian Ocean tsunami-warning centre on Tuesday after frustrated scientists said they knew killer waves were speeding towards coastlines across Asia but was powerless to raise the alarm.
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The government has said that it is &quot;extremely concerned&quot; at the forced relocations of people in camps in Darfur over the past few days.
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TERRIFIED police have told how they feared they would die as a rampaging mob burnt down the police station in which they were trapped on Palm Island, off north Queensland.
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Long a a haven for foreign sexual predators, the war-ravaged country is suddenly taking a hard line with a number of high-profile arrests
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FREEPORT, Bahamas A meteorologist with the Bahamas weather service is predicting two of the chain&#39;s islands will be hit hard by Hurricane Jeanne.