Nauru

Hassan al-Kontar wants to help sponsor 200 Manus Island and Nauru refugees to come to Canada.

Migrants sent to Papua New Guinea and Nauru are facing increasing despair, refugee advocates say.

Nauru's ex-president, a former weightlifter, made a confession on TV weeks before dying on Wednesday.

The controversial Christmas Island centre is needed, PM Scott Morrison says, in a row over migrants.

MPs pass a bill helping sick refugees get treatment, in a historic defeat for the government.

A divisive new bill could let sick asylum seekers in offshore centres get treatment in Australia.

Australia says the four children and their families held on the Pacific island are going to the US.

The move comes amid reports of a mental health crisis affecting young people on the island.

A "spiral of despair" has overwhelmed people who once hoped to live in Australia, psychiatrists say.

The medical charity says it has urged the authorities on the Pacific island nation to reconsider.