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

Unrest in one of Australia’s offshore migrant and refugee detention centers has renewed scrutiny over the country’s handling of asylum seekers.

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 ...

SYDNEY, Australia • Residents of Australia's isolated Christmas Island first heard the screams of children just offshore.

Australia's government, which announced earlier this month that it would be moving refugees off of Nauru, confirmed to media that it will pay $350 million annually to keep the Nauru facility open.

A confrontation is looming in Papua New Guinea (PNG) between local authorities and more than 700 men who are refusing to leave an Australian-run immigration processing center.

Australia is under pressure to release a refugee family from a Christmas Island detention centre after their three-year-old child had to be medically evacuated to the mainland.

A rickety boat bearing Cuban migrants and the hopeful message "With God's Blessing" scrawled on its side landed in the Florida Keys early Christmas morning.