WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand is reconsidering all development funding to the aid-dependent island nation of Kiribati, following a diplomatic snub from the island nation's leader ...

Between 2021 and 2024, New Zealand’s aid commitments to Kiribati totaled $57 million, with investments in health, education, fisheries, economic development, and climate resilience.

The self-governing Cook Islands, a country of 17,000 people, has a “free association” relationship with its former colonial ...

New Zealand leader’s China trip focuses on trade and tourism, but differences over Pacific island ties cast a shadow.

New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in budget funding to the Cook Islands, it said yesterday, as the relationship ...

The Cook Islands is one of New Zealand’s closest allies in the Pacific. Wellington controlled the territory, which has a population of about 27,000, until 1965. The countries now have a “free ...

New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in budget funding to the Cook Islands, it said on Thursday, as the relationship ...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, who is on his first official visit to China, said the Cook Islands had not been transparent ...

A strategically important island nation. The bond between Kiribati — population 120,000 — and its near neighbor New Zealand, a country of 5 million people, might not appear the South Pacific's ...

WELLINGTON--New Zealand is reconsidering all development funding to the aid-dependent island nation of Kiribati, following a diplomatic snub from the island nation’s leader, government officials ...