A boat carrying 74 people was turned back in July. "Anybody who claims that our borders are somehow open is lying," Burke said. Burke travelled to Australia's western neighbour Timor Leste on ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia said on Wednesday it would enlist indigenous Aboriginal rangers to patrol its vast and remote northern coastline amid an influx of illegal fishing boats that have also ...

After Portugal's rule ended in 1975, Indonesia invaded, occupying the country in an often bloody 24 years before ...

Timor-Leste is seeking to have the case dismissed later this month, but if it is unsuccessful it says it will fight the lawsuit at trial. As blackouts crippled Timor-Leste, its leaders scrambled ...

MISSION, Texas (AP) — An idled Border Patrol bus sat empty this week, on standby for any migrants surrendering near the southern tip of Texas. Agents in two speedboats zipped past pockets of ...