Amongst all the destruction and looting in Port Moresby on Wednesday, a positive, touching story shone through from the unlikeliest of sources – a group of Hela betelnut vendors who took up arms to protect Stop N Shop Boroko branch from looters for hours.
A political crisis is brewing in Papua New Guinea as calls are made for Prime Minster James Marape to step down in the wake of deadly riots in parts of the country.
Chaos broke out as looters took advantage of a protest by the country's police. As well as those who are dead, dozens are injured.
Angry mobs storm and pillage shops, setting fire to buildings in the Papua New Guinean capital.
Mr Albanese said Australia was monitoring the situation via its high commission and had not received any requests for help from Papua New Guinea, which it regularly supports in policing and security.
Up to 200 police, corrections and army personnel have gathered at the Unagi Oval in Port Moresby to in protest over deductions to their salaries this fortnight.
The tribal body alleged that the Valley-Based Insurgent Groups (VBIGS) are based in Myanmar, fighting alongside the Myanmar Army against the Pro-Democracy groups, the People’s Defence Force (PDF), and the Kuki National Army-Burma (KNA-B).
Agreement would have granted Ethiopia access to Gulf of Aden under 50-year lease. Somalia has cancelled a controversial deal between Somaliland, a breakaway region of the country of around 18 million, and landlocked Ethiopia that would have allowed Addis Ababa access to the Red Sea....
A 560-metre plain grey seawall has been transformed into the longest mural in the South Pacific.
The city of Dourados in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul on Wednesday began the country's first mass vaccination against dengue, the city's government said....
PNG's Porgera gold mine could potentially transform the fortunes of an impoverished province now that it has reopened. But some locals say they've experienced considerable environmental damage from the mine's waste and tailings.
Rapanui has seen a huge decline in its ecosystem and sees this investment as helping it fund solutions to its climate change issues.
The national election results for the Marshall Islands were declared final on December 27 by Chief Electoral Officer Ben Kiluwe.
The death toll from the recent gas tanker explosion in Totota, Lower Bong County, has risen to over 40, according to Liberia's Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Minister for Health Services, Dr. Francis Kateh....
France's Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has announced a Constitutional amendment to "unfreeze" New Caledonia's electoral roll.
Areas of the Apurinã territory in the Lower Seruini area, in southern Amazonas state, were sold by Nemus under an NFT project that promises to preserve the forest and generate carbon credits.
ISA says it has suggested more environmentally friendly solutions for judging the surf competition in Teahupo’o, known for its natural beauty
The long-awaited re-opening of the Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea's Enga Province is set to happen on Friday.
Māori health advocates say a Crown memo opposing an urgent Waitangi Tribunal inquiry demonstrates a 'blatant disregard' of Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles.
Egypt said the latest talks over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) had failed but it would monitor the process of filling and operating the dam....
A suspected plant-trafficking kingpin, Diana Mashiku (29) from Tanzania, and her three Namibian co-accused are scheduled to apply for bail on Thursday in the Opuwo Magistrate’s Court....
Heir Sheikh Meshaal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, 83, replaces Sheikh Nawaf who had ruled for three years.
Lady Tureiti Moxon and the head of a Māori primary health organisation, Janice Kuka, have made a request for an urgent hearing regarding the government's plans.
Appeals judges at the Kosovo tribunal in The Hague on Thursday confirmed the conviction of a former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) guerrilla commander who ran a torture prison during Kosovo's 1998-99 conflict with Serbia, but reduced his sentence....
Eerie silence now dominates the atmosphere around the abandoned school in Yonphula, Trashigang where the wind almost seems to screech through broken windowpanes....
