SYDNEY: A longstanding deal that saw Australia detain asylum seekers in an offshore camp in Papua New Guinea will be scrapped, the two countries announced on Wednesday.

Under Australia's hard-line immigration policies, migrants attempting to reach the country by boat have for years been sent to detention centers on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island and the Pacific nation of Nauru.

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