Some little kids grow up dreaming of being pilots. Silva McLeod wasn’t one of them. During her childhood on the Tongan island of Vava’u, she didn’t even know that being a pilot was a possible career.

The isolation of island states paradoxically makes them at once vulnerable but also resilient. With smaller populations and dependence on access through shipping or air routes, island states, ...

An undersea volcanic eruption in the Tongan archipelago has sunk one island and created another three times larger, according to a report by geologists released Thursday. NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga (AFP) — An ...

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State Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole denounced a federal administration announcement Thursday morning regarding the expansion of ...

Reconnaissance images revealed extensive damages suffered by Tonga’s outer islands from Saturday’s massive undersea volcanic eruption and tsunami, raising fears of unreported deaths and injuries as ...

A distress signal has been detected near an isolated, low-lying group of islands in Tonga in the wake of the massive volcanic eruption and tsunami, the United Nations said Monday. The active distress ...

At least three deaths in Tonga have been reported. For the first time since a massive undersea volcano erupted and caused widespread damage, the government of Tonga released its first statement on ...

SYDNEY >> Three of Tonga’s smaller islands suffered serious damage from tsunami waves, officials and the Red Cross said Wednesday, as a wider picture begins to emerge of the destruction caused by the ...

To help address these challenges, IFC will provide TDB with an unfunded risk-sharing facility of up to USD 3 million ...