WASHINGTON, June 10 (UPI) -- The Pacific island nation of Palau has agreed to take 17 Chinese Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
TOKYO, April 7 (UPI) -- A 6.9-magnitude earthquake rumbled in the Pacific Ocean east of the Kuril Islands Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
PORT VILA, Vanuatu, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A major earthquake struck the multi-island nation of Vanuatu early Thursday, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center reported.
WASHINGTON, July 14 (UPI) -- A growing number of Democratic U.S. senators fear detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may be transferred to countries where they might be tortured.
LONGANA, Vanuatu, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The threat of a volcanic eruption has driven thousands of people from their homes on an island in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Cyclone Percy, the fourth such South Pacific storm in a month, is closing in on a remote territory of New Zealand.
ADAMSTOWN, Pitcairn, July 7 (UPI) -- A tiny island of some 50 people in the Pacific Ocean is recruiting prison guards for a sex abuse trial in September, the BBC reported Wednesday.
LOS ANGELES, April 22 (UPI) -- U.S. actor Marlon Brando has told his family when he dies, he wants his ashes scattered on a tiny South Pacific island where there are no tourists.
WASHINGTON, March 21 (UPI) -- Costa Rica and the tiny Pacific island nation of Palau on Friday publicly joined the "coalition of the willing," the Pentagon announced. This brings the coalition supporting the U.S.-led war with Iraq to 45 members.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Five detainees at the United States' Guantanamo military prison camp have tried to hang themselves since Jan. 16, a Defense Department spokeswoman said Friday. One of the detainees who attempted to hang himself remains hospitalized at the camp in Guantana
