Nauru Takes in 2nd Group of Refugees
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A two-week standoff ended when the last of more than 200 refugees agreed to leave an Australian navy ship and be taken to the remote Pacific nation of Nauru.
The mainly Iraqi refugees abandoned demands to be taken to Australia and left the Manoora. The ship had picked them up off Australia days after a separate group of mainly Afghan asylum seekers was put aboard under an agreement to end an earlier standoff.
In return for millions in Australian aid, Nauru promised to process the claims of about 380 Afghan refugees. It later agreed to process the claims of the second group.
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