Gabe Whisnant is a Breaking News Editor at Newsweek based in North Carolina. Prior to joining Newsweek in 2023, he directed daily publications in North and South Carolina. As an executive editor ...

FOR decades, the Pacific Islands region has been heavily reliant on donor funding to support development, governance, and capacity-building initiatives. While donor support has played a role in ...

Scaly sailors may have made a record-setting oceanic voyage. Tens of millions of years ago, iguanas in North America floated across the Pacific Ocean. Clinging to vegetation washed into the sea ...

The past few years have seen growing maritime security challenges intersect with rising geopolitical competition in the world in general and the Indo-Pacific in particular. China’s gray zone coercion ...

Vanuatu, a tiny island nation in the South Pacific, has recently drawn international attention after its Prime Minister, Jotham Napat, ordered the cancellation of fugitive businessman Lalit Modi ...

Chinese Assistant Minister of Public Security Liu Zhongyi walks after he inspected the repatriation of Chinese nationals who were taken from scam centers in Myanmar amid a mounting crackdown on ...

Though the photograph is authentic, it was captured in 2017 and shows a different patch of garbage off the coast of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea — not the Pacific Ocean. For years, social media ...

The Pacific Adventure sailed from Sydney on Mar. 10, 2025, for its final voyage under the P&O Cruises Australia banner. As the company prepares to shut down and transfer its ships to Carnival Cruise ...

P&O Cruises Australia cancelled the final cruise of the Pacific Encounter due to Tropical Cyclone Alfred. According to a statement sent to booked guests, the cruise that was set to depart on March 8, ...

U.S. Air Force engineers, U.S. Navy Seabees, and U.S. Marine engineer teams have reclaimed a historic World War II airfield from jungle growth in the Western Pacific for use for operations for ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

March 7 (Reuters) - New Zealand’s top spy has warned of the security risks posed by China’s growing influence in the Pacific and said his agency would ramp up scrutiny of the Cook Islands ...