News Source: The Daily Telegraph
| 2 months ago
Afghan migrants on the southern island of Papakan who were attempting to sail to Australia. The migrants were discovered on the island in West Nusa Tenggara province on Friday night, local seaport operational head Ali, who only uses one name, said...
News Source: Hindustan times
| 2 months ago
A boat carrying 83 suspected asylum seekers was intercepted today off Australia's northwest coast after being spotted from the air by a military patrol plane,officials said. The vessel was spotted around midnight about 80 nautical miles south of...
News Source: The Age
| 2 months ago
about 80 nautical miles south of Ashmore Island. It is the second boat intercepted this week after a vessel carrying seven passengers was found in the same area on Monday. Fifty-six Afghanis trying to travel to Australia in a wooden boat were also...
News Source: The Age
| 2 months ago
Border Protection intercepted the vessel, carrying 83 passengers and 4 crew at midnight, about 80 nautical miles south of Ashmore Island. Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O'Connor says the people on board the vessel are safe and have indicated they...
News Source: The Age
| 2 months ago
The shoemaker from Qarabagh in Afghanistan, one of the war-torn country's most violent provinces, has spent almost his entire adult life on the run and it has taken its toll. From Pakistan, to Indonesia, to Christmas Island and Nauru, back to...
News Source: The Age
| 2 months ago
Afghan asylum seekers caught in Indonesia as they sought to reach Australia have been sent back to their war-ravaged homeland in the past few months after being offered a financial inducement and allegedly told they have next to no chance of being...