NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — As leaders of Pacific nations were welcomed to their annual meeting in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, on Monday, they were greeted first by torrential rain and then by an earthquake. The ...

President Biden botched a simple acronym while speaking to leaders from the Pacific Islands on Monday in his latest verbal blunder. Biden, 80, got stumped as he was trying to dictate the abbreviation ...

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele, under mounting pressure from Beijing, recently reaffirmed Taiwan’s exclusion from the upcoming Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting. The decision marks ...

(Bloomberg) -- The world’s two largest powers will descend on the small Pacific nation of the Cook Islands this week as they compete for influence at the region’s largest annual forum, even as the ...

Pacific Island leaders have kicked off their annual summit in the Solomon Islands, with climate change and security expected to take centre stage amid the battle for influence in the region between ...

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NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — As leaders of Pacific nations were welcomed to their annual meeting in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, on Monday, they were greeted first by torrential rain and then by an earthquake. The ...