Germany is sending 13 military aircraft to joint exercises in Australia, the air force’s largest peacetime deployment, underlining Berlin’s increased focus on the Indo-Pacific, amid rising tensions in the region.…
After dodging the COVID pandemic for two years a health disaster has been declared in the Marshall Islands, as local authorities confirm more than 10 per cent of residents in…
Strengthening ties with the Pacific is a priority for the Biden administration, says a top US diplomat, while warning the region faces a struggle from countries that seek to coerce…
A massive field of hydrothermal vents on the seafloor in the dark depths of the East Pacific ocean is the hottest and largest discovered in the region yet. Not only…
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he wants to bring “positive energy” to the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) to help heal divisions which threaten the unity of the peak regional body.…
Defense Minister Richard Marles has called for closer cooperation between Australia and the United States to avoid what he describes as “a catastrophic failure of deterrence” in the Indo-Pacific. Key…
Numerous problems have been identified on Australian-built patrol boats gifted to Pacific Island nations, prompting the Defense Department to issue advice on how to “minimize risk” for the countries that…
China is making an audacious attempt to muscle in on the Pacific’s most important high-level gathering, pushing for a meeting with the region’s foreign ministers on the same day leaders…
The Pacific’s peak diplomatic body looks set to exclude the United States, China and several other major countries from a crucial leaders meeting in Fiji next month in a move…
In prisons around the world, more and more women and girls are doing time. Key points: The female incarceration rate has increased at a rate double the male incarceration rate…