Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown says he will only re-work constitutional ties with New Zealand if the new agreement makes it clear his country is now "more independent" - risking a fresh brawl ...

The Cook Islands is now a much more independent country than it was in 1965,' Premier Mark Brown says amid tensions with ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

Mark Brown has recently been caught up in a bitter dispute with New Zealand over agreements he signed with China.

Donald Trump has announced his full list of 'Liberation Day' tariffs which he claims will give the US 'economic independence' ...

Britain and Mauritius are finalizing a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a U.K. territory that is home to ...

Although the tensions continued for eight years, the political independence won allowed for the formation of the United States of America. Fast forward 249 years later as we have landed on the eve ...

Under the U.S. Constitution, federal judges “hold their Offices during good Behaviour” and receive salaries that “shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.” Like other ...

has described the pursuit of seabed mining within the islands’ surrounding waters as part of the country’s “journey of sovereign independence” and compared it to how Cook Islanders first ...