A rare dispute between New Zealand and Kiribati has renewed focus on the Pacific island nation, highlighting the existential ...

part of the Mariana Islands in the Central Pacific. Securing Saipan was of critical importance to the U.S.; its airfields would put the Army Air Force's new B-29 bombers within striking distance ...

Their own leaders have said that Kiribati—33 coral islands in an expanse of the central Pacific larger than India—is “among the most vulnerable of the vulnerable.” They have predicted that ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean lies the world’s remotest country, which can’t even be spotted on the map. Kiribati ...

USGov PD. June 15, 1944 U.S. Marines and Army troops, supported by a massive fleet, invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific. June 19, 1944 Japan's counterattack results in the ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka will attend a presidential prayer breakfast in Washington on Thursday, the first opportunity for a Pacific Islands leader to press the ...

The Micronesian nation of 33 coral islands is scattered over a remote area of the central Pacific that spans 3.5 million square kilometers (1.3 million square miles) – an area larger than India.