A rescue operation is under way after a boat carrying hundreds of asylum seekers sinks off the Indonesian island of Java.

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Migrant boat sinks off Indonesia

The UN commissioner on human rights warns Australia that its plan to send 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia may be illegal.

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UN queries Australia asylum deal

An Australian inquest into the Christmas Island shipwreck, which killed up to 50 asylum seekers, is told the captain abandoned the boat a day before the tragedy.

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Christmas Island tragedy inquest

Australian police fire tear gas to subdue rioting asylum seekers at the Christmas Island detention centre following days of unrest there.

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Riots at Australia asylum centre

Indonesian police detain a man suspected of being behind a boat of asylum seekers that was shipwrecked off Christmas Island.

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Indonesia holds ‘people smuggler’

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard says as many as 48 asylum seekers may have been killed when their boat sank off Christmas Island.

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Australian shipwreck ‘killed 48′

Australian authorities are involved in the rescue of asylum seekers off Christmas Island, a Customs and Border Protection official said Wednesday.

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27 asylum seekers die off Australia

A wooden boat packed with dozens of asylum seekers smashed apart on jagged rocks in heavy seas off an Australian island Wednesday, flinging screaming women and children into churning whitewater and sending many people to their deaths.

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Asylum Seekers Sink Off Australia

A protest is under way in Glasgow over plans which could see hundreds of asylum seekers re-homed.

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Protest over asylum seeker homes

Sweden suspends deportations of asylum seekers to Greece – the latest of several European countries to do so.

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Sweden keeps migrants from Greece

Around 70 asylum seekers break out of a detention centre in the Australian city of Darwin to hold a protest against their treatment.

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An Iraqi man is convicted of smuggling more than 500 asylum seekers in two boats from Indonesia to Australia in 2001.

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Australia convicts Iraqi smuggler