Kiribati

Kiribati has sworn in a new Justice Minister.

Kiribati President Taneti Maamau has denied any government involvement in last week's abrupt closing of Parliament.

Opposition MPs in the Kiribati Parliament have defeated the government's budget.

Kiribati President Taneti Maamau has called on MPs to set aside political differences and pass the budget.

The Kiribati High Court has ruled that an opposition MP can move a motion of no confidence against the president.

The Minister of Justice in Kiribati, Natan Teewe, has resigned.

An opposition MP in Kiribati is calling for the president to step down after the government lost its majority for the first time in three years.

The president of Kiribati has described members of the new political party, Kiribati First, as traitors.

Kiribati's government has lost its majority in Parliament for the first time in three years.

An Australian television crew has left Kiribati after being held for two days in a hotel.

The crew of an Australian current affairs show has been detained in Kiribati.

The Kiribati government says a US charity's decision to cut its medical assistance in the wake of its decision to switch relations from Taiwan to China is an example of alarming propaganda.

More than a year after the MV Butiraoi broke apart and sunk in Kiribati, killing 95 people, grief and anger still run deep on Nonouti, the island from which that fateful voyage departed.

A ship that sank in Kiribati last year, killing 95 people, was severely overloaded, unauthorised to carry passengers, and commanded by a captain who ignored several warnings, an inquiry has found.

Kiribati has eliminated lymphatic filariasis, otherwise known as elephantiasis, after a 19-year-long public health campaign.

The US and its allies need to "double down" in light of two countries switching recognition from Taiwan to China, a US Army senior commander in the Pacific says.