Trump's remarks come amid a crackdown on illegal immigration and executive orders that have paved the way for mass deportations.

The Royal Navy's Captain Arthur Phillip had been empowered under British law by King George III to establish a penal ... with Botany Bay as a suitable site to establish a colony, on January ...

The arrival of the ships at Botany Bay on 21st January 1788 was met ... would be the most suitable destination for the next penal colonies. On 6th December 1785 the Orders in Council were given; the ...

The first 736 convicts banished from England to Australia landed in Botany Bay. Over the next 60 years, approximately 50,000 criminals were transported from Great Britain to the "land down under," in ...

This is the anniversary of the actual day Governor Arthur Phillip sailed into Sydney Harbour in 1788 with the first fleet, and claimed the eastern seaboard for Britain, with the establishment ...

Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been sentenced to years in a Russian penal colony. Igor Sergunin, Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev were found guilty by a Russian ...

Navalny, who died suddenly aged 47 in an Arctic penal colony in February last year, was himself convicted of extremism and other charges, all of which he said were trumped up by the authorities to ...

Nor does it commemorate the official founding of New South Wales, which took place on February 7, the date governor Arthur Phillip formally proclaimed the brand-new colony on the banks of Sydney Cove.

LONDON - Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny were found guilty by a Russian court on Friday of belonging to an extremist group and sentenced to years in a penal colony.

contributing to the growth of Port Arthur as a major penal settlement. At the other side of the bay, Point Puer was set up as a prison for juveniles, specifically, boys. “Hundreds of (Charles ...