The region faces challenges of climate change, geostrategic tensions, political upheaval, disaster recovery and ...

Tonga is starting the new year with a new prime minister. Parliament elected him in a special session on Christmas Eve. HPR’s ...

FILE PHOTO: Tonga's Prime Minister Siaosi 'Ofakivahafolau Sovaleni addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, US, Sept 27, 2024. [Photo/Agencies] SUVA - Tongan ...

The final vote tally was 124 member states in favour and 14 against, with 43 nations abstaining. The Pacific countries that voted with Israel and its main ally and arms-supplier United States against ...

A New York appellate court on Tuesday denied President-elect Donald Trump's bid to halt sentencing set for Friday for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn ...

Tens of Thousands Ordered to Flee From L.A. Fire Pacific Palisades, Calif. LIVE Homes Destroyed as Officials Warn Worst Is Yet to Come Rapidly moving flames fanned by strong Santa Ana winds ...

Ukraine's air force says one of its F-16 fighter jet pilots shot down six missiles during a Russian aerial attack last month. Meanwhile, Moscow says its troops have inflicted a series of defeats ...

Moala said there's huge support for the former Prime Minister, Hu'akavameiliku Saiosi Sovaleni, who resigned on December 9 ahead of a vote of no confidence. Meanwhile, in an unusual move ...

A force fighting Sudan’s army in a brutal civil war committed massacres and rape that amount to genocide, the Secretary of State said, two decades after a finding of genocide in the same region ...

Jan. 7, 2025 — Researchers have devised a way to improve the accuracy of climate change models for the Global South by integrating historical records kept by ... Climate Extremes in 2024 ...

Jan. 6, 2025 — New research shows that the sweeping land use changes and irrigation of the U.S. Corn Belt, along with the influence of the area's shallow ... Floods Linked to Rise in US Deaths ...

A team at the University of Calgary is making scientific advances in understanding plant adaptation, which could ultimately be used to find ways to make agricultural crops more resilient to heat ...