Word: disembarks
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...NAURU Refugee Standoff Australia's strategy of sending asylum seekers to the Pacific island of Nauru suffered a setback when 200 Palestinians and Iraqis refused to disembark from an Australian navy ship. The group left H.M.A.S. Manoora after a 12-day standoff, but not before the U.N. said it would not process any further boatloads bound for Australia and diverted to Nauru...