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Manus Island

Asylum-seekers look through a fence at the Manus Island detention center in Papua New Guinea March 21, 2014. It is scheduled to close October 31, 2017. Eoin Blackwell/AAP/via Reuters/File Photo ATTENTION EDITORS - FACES PIXELLATED AT SOURCE. THIS PICTURE

For the asylum-seekers in one of Australia’s controversial offshore detention camps, there’s good news and bad news

Global Politics

The US agreed to resettle refugees stuck in an Australian-run offshore detention facility. But with the camp slated to be shut down in late October, not a single refugee has been approved.

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