A strong 7.0 magnitude earthquake has hit near the Pacific nation of Tonga and an initial tsunami warning was lifted hours ...

A few weeks ago, commercial flights over the Tasman Sea — located between Australia and New Zealand — were forced to divert after they were warned by the ...

Iwoto is an isolated island about 1,200 kilometers south of Tokyo ... battlefields of the Pacific Theater, and a monument depicting U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi ...

His visit comes as Beijing has been showing increasing assertiveness in the disputed South China ... peace in the Indo-Pacific.” Most of those who fought on the tiny island are gone but their ...

History caught up in a surprising way this summer with a fifth-generation descendant of an American immigrant who settled in an island 1,000 kilometers south of ... and Stripes flag that his ...

One of the most famous WWII photos was taken on Feb. 23, 1945 when U.S. Marines raised a small American flag ... the island was only 11 square miles, it was considered crucial to the Pacific ...

His visit comes as Beijing has been showing increasingly assertive actions in the disputed South China Sea and following ... Hegseth landed on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, now known as Iwoto ...

There are 8000 shipwrecks off Australia alone, many more still to be found. Yet stunning discoveries still happen. What does ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A Pacific storm unleashed heavy rain and ... pummeled large swaths of the country this week. Coastal areas south of San Francisco to San Diego could get an inch or so of rain ...

France has warned that a tiny volcanic island in the South Pacific inhabited only by seabirds ... push for a crackdown on the abuse of the flag-state system. Ship registering is aimed at ensuring ...

Since 1959 the avian flu virus H5N1 has been popping up around the globe. Now scientists believe it could spark the next ...