The Latest Breaking News from Pacific Island

Pacific Island leaders endorsed a landmark regional policing plan Wednesday at a summit in Tonga, a contentious move seen as trying to limit China's security role in the region.

Warning that sea levels are rising at an accelerating rate, particularly around vulnerable Pacific island nations, UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a fresh climate SOS to the world. His alert coincides with a new report from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), which warns that climate change threatens the very existence…

Speaking at a meeting of Pacific Island leaders in Tonga, Antonio Guterres warned the region was ‘uniquely exposed’.

Torrential rain and an earthquake greeted leaders welcomed to the Pacific Islands Forum in Tonga, underscoring climate change the region faces

Australia must urgently halt new fossil fuel projects and scale up investment in renewable energies such as solar and wind

New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters says Western nations, including the United States and New Zealand, failed to understand swiftly enough the geopolitical importance of island nations in the South Pacific, leaving a power vacuum that allowed other countries to increase their diplomatic influence

The government of Kiribati is suspending all diplomatic visits to the Pacific Island nation until next year, citing its current election process, according to an official in the Foreign Ministry

The prime ministers of three Pacific nations will lead a mediation effort in crisis-hit New Caledonia next month.

Japan is hosting a summit with leaders from more than a dozen Pacific island nations, seeking to deepen cooperation and increased support for a rules-based free and open Indo-Pacific

The withdrawal of major banks from Pacific islands poses significant socio-economic risks to the region, prompting intervention by Australia, the US and New Zealand.

Watch as Julian Assange lands in Australia after walking free on Wednesday 26 June from a court on the US Pacific island territory of Saipan after pleading guilty to violating US espionage law, in a deal that allowed him to head straight home.