New Zealand has halted millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over the “breadth and content” of agreements the smaller Pacific nation made with China, officials from the New ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over the “breadth and content” of agreements the smaller Pacific nation has made ...

New Zealand has paused millions of dollars in development funding to the Cook Islands after previously saying it was blindsided by the island nation’s deals with China earlier this year. The ...

The money is part of NZ $200 million directed to the Cook Islands by New Zealand over the past three years as part of an almost 60-year-old free association compact. The links demand consultation ...

While the Cook Islands is a self-governing country, New Zealand remains its largest funder, and has paused $16.9 million in funding to its former colony for development assistance this financial year.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in budget funding to the Cook Islands, it said on Thursday, as the relationship between the two constitutionally-linked ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand has halted millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over the “breadth and content” of agreements the smaller Pacific nation made ...

A Rock Island man who pleaded guilty to a charge of armed robbery in connection with the Dec. 18, 2013, shooting death of Rock Island tattoo artist Derek Jackson has been sentenced.

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Increasing economic ties between the Cook Islands and China represent a pivotal shift in regional geopolitics with implications for Australia and New Zealand’s influence in the South Pacific — a ...

Cook Island's Prime Minister Mark Brown says any new agreement with NZ can't "wind back the clock" to the colonial era. NZ and Cook Islands remain at loggerheads over contentious China deal. Cook ...

The Cook Islands, a nation in the Pacific Ocean, hosted this year’s ecumenical World Day of Prayer on March 7, bringing together hundreds of people from the country’s six Christian churches.