Hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers from Indonesia and other countries are being detained in “Christmas Island,” a remote location in the Indian Ocean. In 2006 Australian authorities built ...

Refugees are among about 100 immigration detainees currently being held at the recently reopened North-West Point facility on Christmas Island, facing deportation on character grounds, despite ...

Fears of imminent deportations, aggravated by increasing over-crowding, triggered a riot on Saturday night inside the refugee detention centre on Australia’s Christmas Island.

There are about 203 men at the Christmas Island facility, according to Immigration Minister Peter Dutton. ... He continued, saying that “The refugees are now expecting the inevitable, ...

When concern was raised in a tweet by Amnesty International that the refugees being transferred to Christmas Island should be allowed to live in the community, ABF twitter responded by stating ...

GENEVA, December 15 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency expressed deep shock and sorrow at the tragic loss of life on Wednesday after a vessel thought to be carrying asylum-seekers foundered on the coast ...

If the remote Australian outpost of Christmas Island had its way, it would have reopened a local casino that once raked in billions of dollars instead of renting hotel rooms at an ageing resort to ...

REFUGEE groups say a boat carrying 153 asylum-seekers was tonight in sight of Christmas Island and could be the first to successfully arrive in Australia in more than six months.