FILE PHOTO: The remote island volcano of Kadovar spews ash into the sky in Papua New Guinea, January 6, 2018. SAMARITAN AVIATION/via REUTERS By Alison Bevege SYDNEY (Reuters) - About 1,500 people are ...

Thirty people are reported to have been killed on Kiriwina Island in Papua New Guinea’s Milne Bay Province. Kiriwina-Goodenough MP Douglas Tomuriesa told PNG newspaper Post Courier on Tuesday 30 ...

West Papua occupies the Indonesian half of New Guinea, the second largest island in the world after Greenland. Indonesia unilaterally annexed the former Dutch colony in 1969 with the United Nations ...

SYDNEY (AP) — An island volcano in Papua New Guinea erupted again Sunday, sending plumes of steam and ash into the air. Thousands of people have been evacuated from islands surrounding Kadovar Island ...

The detention center used by Australia to house asylum seekers on Manus Island will close, Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill announced Wednesday, after the nation’s Supreme Court ruled ...

MOORHEAD-Paul Fuglestad is compelled to tell others about the 12-year-old boy he knows who walks through the jungle, two hours each way to and from school each day. "Boka" leaves around 6 a.m. from ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia >> Seven Pacific island nations have called for a U.N. investigation into allegations of human rights abuses in Indonesia’s West Papua and Papua provinces, where a separatist ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia >> A strong earthquake rocked parts of Indonesia’s Papua province on Sunday, causing panic among residents but no immediate reports of damage or casualties. Indonesia’s Meteorology ...

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Reporting from SYDNEY, australia — An island volcano in Papua New Guinea erupted again Sunday, sending plumes of steam and ash into the air. Thousands of people have been evacuated from islands ...