New Zealand Development 7s player Maloni Kunawave has been included in the All Blacks 7s traveling squad and could make his ...

Tonga's King Tupou VI has appointed 'Aisake Eke as prime minister, a month after he was selected by lawmakers to be the ...

As Tonga stands on the verge of potentially receiving deported individuals from the United States, many of whom are linked to gangs, it is critical that we, as a nation, prepare ourselves to meet this ...

The draw for the OFC U-19 Women’s Championship 2025 has been officially announced at the OFC Home of Football – Te Kahu o ...

The grooming gangs scandal is back in the headlines after Elon Musk attacked Sir Keir Starmer and minister Jess Phillips for failing children. The tech billionaire has accused Sir Keir of being ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — More than 5,600 people were reported killed in Haiti last year as a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya struggles to contain rampant gang violence, officials said ...

The tech billionaire has also turned his fire on the prime minister, claiming that while he was director of public prosecutions he failed to bring the "rape gangs" to justice. He posted on X ...

Tech tycoon Elon Musk has criticised UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer over his handling of the case of sexual exploitation of young girls by grooming gangs, mainly involving British Pakistani men, in ...

Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to shelve plans for an official government definition of Islamophobia in the wake of the grooming gangs scandal. Critics say a strict definition would curtail free ...

The Pacific year ahead . . . incoming US President Trump (clockwise from top left), elections, earthquake recovery, and PNG's 50th anniversary of independence celebrations. Image: BenarNews montage - ...

However, the mission has failed to prevent gangs from taking new territories and committing several massacres as violence dramatically escalated in the last months of 2024, causing thousands more ...

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