FILE PHOTO: The remote island volcano of Kadovar spews ash into the sky in Papua New Guinea, January 6, 2018. SAMARITAN AVIATION/via REUTERS By Alison Bevege SYDNEY (Reuters) - About 1,500 people are ...

West Papua occupies the Indonesian half of New Guinea, the second largest island in the world after Greenland. Indonesia unilaterally annexed the former Dutch colony in 1969 with the United Nations ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Seven Pacific island nations have called for a U.N. investigation into allegations of human rights abuses in Indonesia's West Papua and Papua provinces, where a separatist ...

Thirty people are reported to have been killed on Kiriwina Island in Papua New Guinea’s Milne Bay Province. Kiriwina-Goodenough MP Douglas Tomuriesa told PNG newspaper Post Courier on Tuesday 30 ...

SYDNEY (AP) – An island volcano in Papua New Guinea has erupted again, sending plumes of steam and ash into the air. Thousands of people have been evacuated from islands surrounding Kadovar Island off ...

On the Occasion of PNG’s 50 Years Anniversary – the Catholic Church has been here well before the nation’s Independence (Part ...

Powerful, magnitude 7.5 earthquake has rattled Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands today, U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, and a tsunami alert was ...

The detention center used by Australia to house asylum seekers on Manus Island will close, Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill announced Wednesday, after the nation’s Supreme Court ruled ...

Editor’s note: This is the fourth part of Janet Landfried’s series on a trip to the South Pacific. From Thursday Island in the Torres Straits we sailed east to round Cape York, the farthest northern ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia >> A strong earthquake rocked parts of Indonesia’s Papua province on Sunday, causing panic among residents but no immediate reports of damage or casualties. Indonesia’s Meteorology ...

Reporting from SYDNEY, australia — An island volcano in Papua New Guinea erupted again Sunday, sending plumes of steam and ash into the air. Thousands of people have been evacuated from islands ...