Australia under fire over 'shameful' plan to send refugees abroad

The Australian prime minister yesterday unveiled the most draconian refugee policy in the country's history, announcing that asylum-seekers who arrive by boat will be resettled not in Australia but in neighbouring Papua New Guinea, a nation riddled with crime, poverty and corruption.
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Nina, A Maritime Beauty Possibly Gone Forever

By PATRICK MCGEEHAN
If Nina did sink, it would spell the end of a long, eventful life that took the yacht from its creation on Cape Cod to New York City, to Bermuda and back many times, across the Atlantic to Europe, to Florida and, finally, to the South Pacific. Along the way, it was a racer, a flagship, a training vessel for aspiring mariners and the unrequited love of so many sailors.

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