Regional leaders attending the annual Pacific Islands Forum have gathered on the tiny island of Nauru, one of the few countries to have been both the richest and the poorest in the world in the last ...

The Australian government has agreed to pay the small Pacific island nation of Nauru some $1.6bn to resettle former detainees who have “no legal right to remain in Australia”, in the latest iteration ...

President Adeang reveals four current government leaders share ancestral ties with Banaba during Rabi Island’s 80th ...

People take part in a parade celebrating Nauru's 56th anniversary of independence in Nauru, Jan. 31, 2024. Nauru held a ceremony to celebrate its 56th anniversary of independence on Wednesday.(Photo: ...

A German family of four is among the first six successful applicants for Nauru's citizenship-by-investment program, which launched earlier this year. The island nation is threatened by encroaching ...

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At the Rio Olympics, there are the usual powerhouses: Team USA, with 554 athletes. Australia, with 420. China, with 401. And then there are the tiny countries: overwhelmed, but proud. I went on a ...

You’d think every country would have its own capital city, right? Some countries even have two (Bolivia’s parliament meets in La Paz, but its Supreme Court meets in Sucre) or three (South Africa ...

Named Pleasant Island by its first European visitors, Nauru in the central Pacific is the world's smallest republic. In the 21st Century it has been a key part of Australia's controversial offshore ...

The tiny nation of Nauru is only 8.1-square miles, and home to a population of 10,000. But in the world of public health, this Pacific island looms incredibly large. It was in Nauru, in the mid-1970s, ...