Australia, one of the main emitters of greenhouse gases, signed a treaty with Tuvalu, a Pacific microstate, in 2024, granting ...

Australia's islands punch above their weight As we collated the surveys, we realized Australia's coastal islands were punching above their weight for species diversity. Despite making up less than ...

SYDNEY, May 21 (Reuters) - Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Tuesday Solomon Islands' newly elected Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele had told him the Pacific Island nation is ...

What came to be known as the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) marked a sharp reversal in Australia foreign ... eventually displacing around one-third of the population ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP ... Advertising “But Solomon Islands has not committed to scaling back the essentially permanent rotating presence of around 14 Chinese police trainers in the ...

PLAN frigates. JSO Photo A pair of People’s Liberation Army Navy frigates sailed around Japan’s southwest islands from this week, while a PLAN intelligence ship transited the Miyako Strait to ...

Australia, which has been accused of taking a dismissive stance in the past toward island nations, spent the week trying to “show respect” and build its influence. By Yan Zhuang The Australia ...

Ties between Australia and Solomon Islands soured after the Pacific island nation struck a security pact with China in April. The agreement raised concern for the United States and Australia ...

CANBERRA, Australia — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ... hours after walking free from a court in the Northern Mariana Islands, a remote U.S. territory in the Pacific. He had pleaded guilty ...

Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles explained in an interview on Tuesday that the extent of Australia’s security partnership with the Solomon Islands is unknown due to the islands’ government ...

says China has reason to be drawn to the Cook Islands (population: 16,800). It could, he says, become a good spot to refuel and resupply task forces—like the one sailing around Australia.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia has announced it will pay for more police in Solomon Islands and create a police training center in the South Pacific island nation’s capital Honiara ...