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Manus police want more cops on island as tension over refugee deal mounts

LORENGAU, 06 FEBRUARY 2017 (ABC) —- Police in Papua New Guinea are requesting extra officers be sent to Manus Island to deal with asylum seekers at Australia’s offshore detention centre. Manus Province police commander David Yapu has asked for 15 extra officers to be stationed at the naval base next to the detention centre. [restrict] […]

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American Samoa now has a sex offender registry website

American Samoa now has an online sex offender registration website page, where names of sex offenders can be searched, while the Attorney General’s Office staff that works on this federally required programme need office space to carry out their work moving forward. [restrict] The US Justice Department’s Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering […]

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US transmits $7.5m in Compact funding to Palau

Acting Interior Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Nikolao Pula has authorised grant payments totaling US$7,542,690 to Palau. Continuing appropriations provided by the U.S. Congress thus far for fiscal year 2017 will support operational activities for the Palau government. Since the financial provisions of the Compact of Free Association expired in 2009, an annual amount of […]

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Trump gears up for lengthy legal battle over his immigration ban

Donald Trump is fighting to save one of his signature policies – closing U.S. borders to immigrants and travellers from seven majority-Muslim countries – in a court battle that represents the most concrete challenge so far to the President’s agenda. A federal judge on Friday blocked Mr. Trump’s week-old executive order and an appeals court […]

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Apple, Google, Uber join fight against Trump travel ban

SEATTLE (AP) — Dozens of tech companies, including behemoths like Apple, Google, and Facebook, are siding with Washington state and Minnesota as they fight President Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. [restrict] The companies filed briefs late Sunday with a federal appellate court saying […]

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