MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) reported a dangerous encounter Sunday afternoon near Capones Island in the West Philippine Sea, where a Chinese Coast Guard vessel attempted a ...

With his announcement of widespread new tariffs on Wednesday, President Trump spared very few places in the world from his effort to upend global trade — not even the remote Heard Island and ...

Penguins are the most abundant birds on the Heard Island and McDonald Islands group. The islands are also home to other animals including seals, flying birds and invertebrates — but no humans.

Even tiny, sparsely populated islands that export close to nothing. Among the countries and territories listed on sheets of paper that were distributed to reporters in the White House Rose Garden ...

That is the exact case of the Heard Island and McDonald Islands, an Australian external territory in the southern Indian Ocean, which was hit with a 10% tariff. The CIA World Factbook describes ...

President Trump’s tariffs don’t just cover big U.S. trading partners. They also target tiny islands and territories, some with more penguins than people. Among the places grappling with new U ...

President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on uninhabited islands and a U.S. military base on Wednesday as he announced his widespread levies. Trump imposed tariffs on the uninhabited Heard and ...

The list includes mostly barren Antarctic islands with no imports or exports. President Donald Trump's sweeping new set of tariffs impact friend and foe alike, but also on the list are uninhabited ...

Donald Trump drew mockery on Wednesday for including two remote islands near Antarctica on his list of countries (even though they are not countries) that will now be hit with steep, new tariffs as ...

It’s two specks of land populated by penguins and seals. Heard and McDonald islands, which sit 4000 kilometres south-west of Perth and are home to Australia’s only active volcanoes ...