Three coral atolls in the South Pacific will remain a colony of New Zealand because ... would have become one of the world’s smallest self-governing territories if the vote had succeeded.

New Zealand has halted funding to the Cook Islands over what it considers the small Pacific nation's deepening ties with ...

Elon Musk's vision of establishing a self-governing colony on Mars, as suggested in SpaceX's Starlink terms of service, raises significant legal questions. The Outer ...

New Zealand’s government halted aid to close partner the Cook Islands on Thursday because of a row over agreements the ...

BEIJING — China toned down its rhetoric on Taiwan on Wednesday, saying that it is inevitable the self-governing island ... a former British colony returned to China in 1997.

One of the knottiest problems that British Prime Minister Harold Wilson inherited when he took over last October was the matter of Rhodesia, the self-governing colony bordering South Africa.

She declared, “We do not want to be a colony again ... in which 99.8% of voters chose to remain a self-governing British Overseas Territory, a vote monitored and validated by independent ...

I was under the impression Bermuda is Britain's oldest self-governing colony. It has only been in recent years that the passing of the Cannabis Bill was denied by the Governor and the British ...

Its status as a colony or “non self-governing territory” was examined by the United Nations in the 1940s and 1950s. The following excerpt is from a paper written by UNRIC´s information officer Árni ...