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At least 20 people are killed in clashes between illegal miners near the Porgera Gold Mine in Porgera, Papua New Guinea.
2024-09-15

United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announces the deployment of a Coast Guard Cutter to Papua New Guinea in August.
2023-07-27

Four people are injured after a PAC 750-XL aircraft crashes in Jiwaka Province, Papua New Guinea.
2023-02-9

At least eight people are killed and 24 others are injured after a magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
2022-09-11

Papua New Guinean media reports confirm that 17 people were fatally shot by prison officers during a prison escape in Lae on May 12.
2017-05-15

Australia and the United States reach a deal to relocate asylum seekers from Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island to the U.S.
2016-11-13

Head of Australia's Department of Immigration Mike Pezzullo denies that the detention centre for asylum seekers on Manus Island must be closed. He said there was no crisis that required any closure of the centre despite Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court ruling it to be unconstitutional and ordering the release of the detainees.
2016-05-6

A riot at the Australian Government's immigration detention facility on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea results in one death and 77 injuries.
2014-02-17

The Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, announces a plan to settle asylum seekers who come by boat in Papua New Guinea.
2013-07-19

Papua New Guinea Deputy Prime Minister Puka Temu joins with opposition MPs in an attempt to bring down the government of Prime Minister Michael Somare.
2010-07-19