Nauru

Save the Children says it welcomes an expression of regret from the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection to its nine staffers forced off Nauru in 2014.

Nine charity workers have been offered an estimated US$755,000 in compensation along with a statement of regret after they were sacked and deported from Nauru.

The Refugee Action Coalition is pleading for a woman in the 37th week of her pregnancy to be flown from Nauru to Australia for the birth.

The US has committed to a deal with Australia to take refugees from Manus Island and Nauru - even as a ban against refugees, migrants and visitors from some Muslim-majority countries is enforced.

Indonesia has called on Pacific island countries to immediately recognise Palestine.

There is no word from the Australian government whether its deal with Washington to shift some of its refugees to the United States has collapsed.

The distress of refugees detained offshore by Australia has deepened with news US President Donald Trump will suspend refugee resettlement.

A refugee detained by Australia on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island says Australia Day is no cause for celebration.

A by-election on Nauru has seen the third ever woman elected to the country's parliament.

An independent audit has alleged more than $AU1 billion has been spent at Australia's offshore detention centres without proper authorisation.

No further interviews for resettlement in the United States are being conducted on Nauru, according to the Refugee Action Coalition.

Four Pacific Island countries have been identified by Azerbaijan as financial offshore centres from where no company can operate in the country's securities market.

The amount of "free school" caught tuna is expected to double in 2017 according to the Parties to the Nauru Agreement.

Australia's Refugee Action Coalition says cars have been burnt on Nauru in an attack by unidentified people on a refugee settlement. Video

Reports from Russia say last week's death of Nauru's transport and health mininster Valdon Dowiyogo was caused by kidney failure.

Nauru's government says the introduction of a new 4G connectivity network will have far reaching and profound benefits to the nation.

The Parties to the Nauru Agreement says nations wanting to fish in its members' exclusive economic zones will have to register the thousands of buoys and floats they use for attracting fish.

Nauru's resident magistrate has not had her contract renewed in what commentators say is another example of judicial interference by the government.