Full Coverage: Nauru
24.09.2007
Rarely is St Kitts and Nevis (pop: 39,382), not to mention St Vincent and the Grenadines (pop: 125,882), at the centre of a titanic diplomatic struggle. But no nation is too tiny for China and Taiwan to squabble over. Lindsey Hilsum explains why.
more...From New Statesman Related topics/regions: [China] [Taiwan] |
03.09.2001
Hundreds of Afghan asylum seekers stranded on a Norwegian freighter off Christmas Island last week are to be moved to an Australian Navy ship and sent to New Zealand and the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru following last week's diplomatic stand-off between Australia's government and international refugee authorities.
more...From: Inter Press Service Related topics/regions: [Australia] [New Zealand] [International cooperation] [Refugees] Image: Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan © Catholic Relief Services
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