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The Cook Islands, a grouping of 15 islands and atolls in the South Pacific, has been a self-governing nation in free association with New Zealand for nearly 60 years. The democratically elected ...

The Cook Islands is in free association with New Zealand, which means its people ... according to the Lowy Insitute’s Pacific Aid Map. “There is a sense of concern that the US was not able ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand ... and turbulent Cook Strait between the North and South Islands is a recurring feature of the country’s roughest weather. Breakdowns of New Zealand’s aging ferries ...

Later the same year, Spanish explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through, and navigated the Torres Strait islands ... the north-west of the South Island of New Zealand. Tasman then returned to Batavia ...

New Zealand expressed renewed concern on Monday about the Cook Islands' prime minister travelling to China this week to sign ...

New Zealand's Foreign Minister voiced "significant concern" on Sunday as close Pacific partner the Cook Islands prepared to sign a cooperation deal with China. Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark ...

The Cook Islands’ pact with China has been furiously denounced by New Zealand as breaching the neo-colonial constitutional ...

The ongoing search for a man reported missing on a jetski in the Cook Strait area has not located ... Minister Louise Upston this week added two new punitive measures to her already draconian ...

Photo / Reece Baker, RNZ Favourable weather conditions in Cook Strait yesterday allowed several agencies to continue their search over a wide area. “At this time there has been no sign of the ...

The New Zealand Government says the Cook Islands has failed to properly consult it on proposed agreements Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown will be signing in China this week. Brown has now ...