Riots have broken out among detainees in an Australian immigration detention center on Christmas Island following the death of an Iranian refugee who escaped from the facility. A statement by the ...

CHRISTMAS ISLAND, Australia — Deep in the jungle on this small island lost in the Indian Ocean, Australia’s new $370 million refugee detention center reaches its full power after its lights ...

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 ...

Australia has freed a Tamil refugee family from Christmas Island to live together in Perth after continued pressure on the Scott Morrison government following the hospitalisation of the family’s ...

Mother Priya accompanied her youngest child Tharnicaa to hospital in Perth Australia is under pressure to release a refugee family from a Christmas Island detention centre after their three-year ...

Australia's prime minister says asylum seekers who are allowed to leave Pacific migrant camps for medical treatment will be sent to a prison-like facility on Christmas Island ...

The island nation is more than 2,000 miles northeast of Australia. Most of these arrivals are political refugees from far-off places such as Pakistan, Iraq and Iran. Sponsor Message ...