The Cook Islands’ strategic location halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii made it a crucial logistics base during World War II. American forces established airstrips on Penrhyn and Aitutaki, with ...

The Cook Islands' prime minister survived a no-confidence vote on Wednesday, blaming "misinformation" from former colonial ...

Acting Prime Minister David Seymour told media on Wednesday, the Chinese had made a "tactical error" by moving through the ...

Cook Islands Prime Minister survived a no-confidence vote Wednesday, blaming “misinformation” from former colonial ruler New Zealand for destabilising his ...

Prime Minister Mark Brown struck a strategic partnership with China this month, irking Cook Islands’ opposition and New ...

Members of parliament voted 13-9 to defeat the motion introduced by the Cook Islands United Party. Two members abstained from ...

The group now controls the majority of the western state. Now comes the hard part: governing, and doing it well enough to win ...

The Cook Islands Prime Minister has written to Christopher Luxon after weeks of communication silence with the New Zealand ...

The Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, Mark Brown, has written to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon as the crisis in the ...

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The furore is part of the efforts to justify New Zealand’s integration into US-led war plans against China, which is the main ...

As tensions ratchet up in the Pacific, foreign minister Winston Peters has landed in Beijing for scheduled meetings. He'll ...