WELLINGTON, New Zealand — People in Kiribati went to the polls on Wednesday for the first round of voting in a national election expected to serve as a referendum on rising living costs and the ...

Two weeks ago, we all saw the dawn of a brand new year. But there's one country in the world lucky enough to be the first to see the new year, every single year. Though perhaps "lucky" isn't the right ...

A spectacle featuring synchronized drone displays, fireworks and illuminations is staged to celebrate the New Year in Lusail, Qatar, January 1, 2024. [Xinhua] While crossing into a new year is a ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The government of Kiribati is suspending all diplomatic visits to the tiny Pacific Island nation until next year and has cancelled some already planned, because it is in the ...

Millennium Island is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 20 crew member on 1 July 2009 on the International Space Station. Millennium Island — known as Caroline Island prior to 2000 — ...

FILE - In this Dec. 30, 1999 file photo, clouds float over the Millennium Island, Kiribati, in the South Pacific. A man from one of the lowest-lying nations on Earth is trying to convince New Zealand ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. The government of Kiribati adjusted that for economic and administrative reasons so that the country now lies across ...