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Rome Newsroom, Mar 7, 2025 / 11:35 am. The Cook Islands, a nation in the Pacific Ocean, hosted this year’s ecumenical World Day of Prayer on March 7, bringing together hundreds of people from ...

When the Cook Islands was granted “internal self-government” in 1965—while still remaining a New Zealand colony—Albert Henry’s Cook Islands Party won the territory’s first election.

New Zealand has halted millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over the “breadth and content” of agreements the smaller Pacific nation made with China, officials said Thursday.New Zealand, ...

The Cook Islands has had what's known as a "free association" relationship with New Zealand, a former coloniser, since the ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The Cook Islands lie halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii and are made up of 15 islands and atolls spread over 700 square miles (1.9 million square kilometres) The country ...

The Cook Islands signed a five-year agreement with China for seabed mineral exploration and research. Prime Minister Mark Brown was accused of not consulting New Zealand on the deal with China .

Brown’s refusal to show New Zealand officials the text of the China deal ahead of his trip prompted censure from Wellington this month. And about 400 people protested at the Cook Islands ...

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown addresses the media during a press conference of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in Bonn, Germany, October 5, 2023. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo ...

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown and Chinese Premier Li Qiang signed the deal in Harbin, the capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang province, Brown's office said in a statement. Sign up here.

Opposition has grown in the Cook Islands to any threat its pacts with China pose to close ties with New Zealand, and Brown’s government faces a no-confidence vote in parliament due after Feb. 25 ...

While only 45,000 Australians visit the Cook Islands each year, compared with 350,000 that go to Fiji, the news is certainly getting out about these once-secret islands.