A Pacific island nation had gone to great lengths to host the U.S. president. Now a region is left to wonder again about American steadfastness.
Tag: Papua New Guinea
Military Memo Adds to Possible Interstellar Meteor Mystery
The U.S. Space Command seemed to confirm a claim that a meteor from outside the solar system had entered Earth’s atmosphere, but other scientists and NASA are still not convinced.
Solomon Islands’ Leader Calls Concern Over China Security Deal ‘Insulting’
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare criticized Australia and New Zealand as assuming that the island nation could not act in its own best interests.
Your Friday Briefing: Global Diplomacy in Brussels
President Biden said Russia should be removed from the G20.
Australia Agrees to Let New Zealand Resettle Offshore Refugees
Under the arrangement, first offered in 2013, New Zealand will take in 150 refugees a year for three years from Australia’s widely criticized detention system.
Helping to Reveal a Still-Shuttered World
Our weekly photo essay series offered readers a glimpse of distant places and cultures that, for a second straight year, remained largely inaccessible.
Some Pacific Nations Won’t Vaccinate Populations for Years, Research Predicts
Papua New Guinea will have vaccinated only a third of its adult population by 2026 if it continues at its current rate, according to an Australian think tank.
A Personal Pilgrimage to a Downed Warplane in Papua New Guinea
Thirty-three years after his first visit to the site, a photographer traveled to a remote jungle in search of a World War II plane that crashed there in 1944.
Papua New Guinea Is Overwhelmed by a Crush of Covid Cases
The crisis in Papua New Guinea is a reminder that the virus will keep wreaking havoc until the whole world is vaccinated.
There’s a Global Plan to Conserve Nature. Indigenous People Could Lead the Way.
Dozens of countries are backing an effort that would protect 30 percent of Earth’s land and water. Native people, often among the most effective stewards of nature, have been disregarded, or worse, in the past.