Chalinee Thirasupa/ Reuters In February 2025, China expanded its influence in the Indo-Pacific through diplomatic outreach, infrastructure investment, and coordinated security efforts—hosting ...

Twenty-two people were killed in gunfights in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, on Thursday, in what police described as a possible clash between rival factions of the Los Tiguerones criminal gang ...

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has granted preemptive pardons for police and military personnel responding to an armed attack that killed at least 22 in the southern city of Guayaquil yesterday.

Rival factions of an Ecuadoran drug trafficking gang fought Thursday in the violent port city of Guayaquil, leaving at least 22 people dead, officials said. Another three people were wounded in a ...

QUITO, March 7 (Reuters) - Infighting between factions of a gang vying for control over territory in Ecuador's largest city Guayaquil left nearly two dozen people dead, authorities said on Friday.

Surging tropical activity in the South Pacific Ocean produced a relatively rare occurrence Tuesday: three named tropical cyclones active at the same time: Alfred, Rae and Seru. It’s the first ...

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and labor partnerships between the two Pacific nations. In a statement, President Marcos cited the “deep historical and cultural ties” between Filipinos and Palauans, with their shared ...

Tokyo | China has secured a strategic foothold in the Pacific’s mineral resources, signing a five-year seabed exploration agreement with the Cook Islands amid escalating regional tensions over ...

Two cyclones have formed in the Pacific region one in Fiji waters, and the other in the Coral Sea. The Fiji Meteorological Service has confirmed that Tropical Depression 09F (TD09F) has intensified ...