Among the millions of World War II veterans were multiple future U.S. presidents. Some only narrowly survived the experience.

No details have been released, but analysts and environmentalists fear it will pave the way for closer security ties and the ...

(AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File) BEIJING (AP) — China insisted on Monday that a visit this week by the prime minister of the ...

Leader of Cook Islands flies to Beijing to negotiate a security deal despite New Zealand warnings The leader of the tiny South Pacific nation of the Cook Islands has flown to China to seal a ...

BEIJING (AP) — China insisted on Monday that a visit this week by the prime minister of the Cook Islands to Beijing is not meant to conspire against anyone in the South Pacific, despite the trip ...

"My name was on a handwritten piece of paper," she told the ABC. Ms Kanas was part of the Miss Pacific Islands beauty pageant held last weekend. The event, this year hosted by Solomon Islands ...

New Zealand seeks transparency from Cook Islands on China agreements China says it sees Cook Islands as important South Pacific partner Cook Islands opposition questions lack of consultation on ...

Brown's trip to China, the first by a leader of the small South Pacific nation in a decade, has drawn ire from New Zealand, with whom the Cook Islands has a special political relationship.

At the heart of the matter is a major deal set to be signed between the Cook Islands and China this week ... of China’s growing influence in the Pacific, which has alarmed the United States ...

A strategically important island nation The bond between Kiribati — population 120,000 — and its near neighbor New Zealand, a country of 5 million people, might not appear the South Pacific's ...

China stood ready for “in-depth” talks with the Cook Islands, Beijing said on Thursday, a day before a meeting between Premier Li Qiang and visiting Prime Minister Mark Brown. According to the ...