New Zealand’s National Party-led government has suspended two years of aid payments—around $NZ30 million—to the Cook Islands, amid a deteriorating diplomatic ...

The Cook Islands should be allowed to “make their own choices” and “have a right to their own future development” in terms of seabed mining, according to former Australian Prime Minister Scott ...

A geopolitical analyst says Prime Minister Christopher Luxon should have stepped in to fix New Zealand's diplomatic spat with Cook Islands, as Foreign Minister Winston Peters is making things worse.

New Zealand’s attempts to “coerce” the Cook Islands over its relationship with China will not work, Prime Minister Mark Brown said in an interview aired on Cook Islands Television last week. He said ...

The Cook Islands was one of the 'top countries whose flags are used by shadow tankers transporting Russian crude oil', according to a European Parliament briefing from 2024 — Marty Melville Dozens of ...

At least 34 Cook Islands–flagged tankers suspected of smuggling contraband crude for Russia and Iran have been using a beachside office in the tropical South Pacific to cover their tracks. Maritime ...

Dozens of oil tankers suspected of smuggling contraband crude for Russia and Iran have been using a beachside office in the tropical South Pacific to cover their tracks, an AFP analysis of sanctions ...