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ABC news report by Margot O'Neill on the Tampa affair and its political context, October 2001. In late August 2001, the Howard government of Australia refused permission for the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa, carrying 433 rescued refugees (predominantly Hazaras of Afghanistan from a distressed fishing vessel in international waters) and 5 crew, to enter Australian waters.
The hearing featured three witnesses with on-the-ground experience in law enforcement, all of whom highlighted the dangerous results of the border crisis, particularly the rise of the notorious ...
The Quad's origins, also referred to as "Quad 1.0", [20] go back to the humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, [21] later leading to a wider range of initiatives including maritime, health security, and education, [22] and "with a focus on securing a free and open Indo-Pacific".
The Indian Ocean joins the Pacific Ocean to the east, near Australia. The Arctic Ocean is the smallest of the five. It joins the Atlantic Ocean near Greenland and Iceland and joins the Pacific Ocean at the Bering Strait. It overlies the North Pole, touching North America in the Western Hemisphere and Scandinavia and Siberia in the Eastern ...
Pacific Ocean Sea border Chile Peru: 1985 2014 [139] Part of the broader territorial dispute. Erik the Red's Land Denmark Norway Iceland [140] 1931 1933 [141] Isla Portillos Costa Rica Nicaragua: 2010 2018 On 2 Feb 2018, the ICJ rendered a decision in a border dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica regarding Isla Portillos . Nicaragua was ...
The northern border is more than 5,000 miles long, double the length of the southern border, and is experiencing a record surge in migrant encounters. US border with Canada faces crisis amid ...
World map of the five-ocean model with approximate boundaries. This list of countries which border two or more oceans includes both sovereign states and dependencies, provided the same contiguous territory borders on more than one of the five named oceans, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. [1]
Two men have been convicted on charges relating to human smuggling in a trial over the deaths of an Indian family that froze to death crossing the U.S.-Canada border. Indian national Harshkumar ...