Australians protest detention of asylum seekers

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Sydney (dpa) – About 400 people protested in the Australian city of Melbourne Saturday against the offshore detention of asylum seekers, a news report said, as the future of the detention centre on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island remains uncertain. The PNG government said earlier this week that the detention centre, on an island 500 kilometres…