pacific

August 23, 2021

Lockdowns or vaccines? 3 Pacific nations try diverging paths

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Cheryl Simpson was supposed to be celebrating her 60th birthday over lunch with friends but…

April 14, 2020

Tens of thousands of people remain homeless in Vanuatu a week after Tropical Cyclone Harold pummelled the impoverished Pacific nation,…

April 6, 2020

A deadly Pacific cyclone intensified as it hit Vanuatu on Monday, threatening a natural disaster that experts fear will undermine…

January 13, 2020

Lava and broad columns of ash illuminated by lightning spewed from a volcano south of the Philippine capital on Monday,…

August 4, 2019

Pacific island leaders insist climate change, not China, will top the agenda when they meet in Tuvalu this month as…

June 17, 2019

Washington is planning another tidal wave of tariffs on Chinese imports that represent a worst-case scenario for markets and major…

May 28, 2019

President Donald Trump on Tuesday used the backdrop of a US naval ship in Japan to tout America’s “fearsome” power…

February 3, 2019

The last remaining refugee children detained by Australia on the remote Pacific island of Nauru are being moved to…

November 4, 2018

The French Pacific islands of New Caledonia were voting Sunday on whether to become an independent nation, in a…

September 7, 2018

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Pacific island nations declared climate change to be their “single greatest threat”, urging Washington to return…