The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of it? Consult the map — it's south of India and kinda sorta between ...

You may have noticed that most plane routes avoid flying directly over the Pacific Ocean, and the reasoning behind that ...

A rare dispute between New Zealand and Kiribati has renewed focus on the Pacific island nation, highlighting the existential ...

With British PM Keir Starmer seeking ‘strong protections’ for the US-British base on Diego Garcia, the Chagos Archipelago is ...

WASHINGTON - Greenland’s representative in the United States met recently with at least one ambassador from the Pacific Islands to learn more about ...

Today, the Trump administration will be inheriting an inconsistent, inefficient, and incomplete diplomatic posture in the Pacific Islands region. The Biden administration may have expanded the ...

U.S. carriers were in Thailand, Japan and the Eastern Pacific this week, while a carrier from France is set to visit the ...

Like many Pacific islands, the low-lying Marshall Islands are highly vulnerable to climate change and rising seas, which has placed "extreme pressure" on its biodiversity, the World Bank warned in ...

That has provoked a contest for influence over Kiribati, an atoll nation that is among the world ... populations of Pacific peoples — is a popular spot for those from island nations to live ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand is reconsidering all development funding to the aid-dependent island ... Pacific leaders with offers of funding and loans. Kiribati, one of the world ...

Two Philippine fisheries vessels, on their way on Friday to collect sand samples from Sandy Cay near Philippine-occupied Thitu island ... based on its historic maps, have no basis under ...