Hundreds of Pacific Islanders with convictions are expected to be deported from the U.S., newspapers in Fiji, Tonga, Papua New Guinea and Marshall Islands have reported, prompting concern over the ...

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US aid freeze impacts Pacific Islands' clean energy, cooking, water projects Pacific aid organisations unable to pay staff US aid cuts risks losing influence to China, analysts warn China is ...

The Pacific Coast highway (PCH) reopened Monday morning after being closed for nearly a month due to the devastating Palisades Fire. The route now has one lane in each direction and limited speed ...

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FILE - A boy scavenges for saleable items at Red Beach dump, on Tarawa atoll, Kiribati, March 30, 2004. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File) ...

Trump is one of the world’s most polarising figures. He can bring excitement; he can trigger anxiety. Even Pacific island leaders can’t be indifferent to the result of the US presidential elections.

Maamau returned for his third term in office last year. In 2022, his government withdrew from the Pacific Islands Forum, threatening Pacific regionalism. However, Kiribati returned to the Forum after ...

A strategically important island nation The bond between Kiribati — population 120,000 — and its near neighbor New Zealand, a country of 5 million people, might not appear the South Pacific's ...

But although it began expanding outside of those borders decades ago, its Pacific Island gains have been limited. No players of Pacific heritage are ranked in the top 100 in either the men's or ...

These subterranean islands are buried 1,200 miles (2,000km) beneath our feet, and reach heights of roughly 620 miles (1,000km), dwarfing every mountain peak found on Earth’s surface and every other ...