Thai soldiers secure a road near the Victory Monument in Bangkok, days after the military ousted the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in a coup, May 26, 2014. (Wason Wanichakorn/AP ...

A protester gestures as he and others clash with Border Guard Bangladesh and police outside the state-owned Bangladesh Television station in Dhaka, July 19, 2024. (Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters) ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to service members at the Defense Personnel Accounting Agency on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, U.S. Mar. 25, 2025. ( (DOD/Madelyn Keech via ...

This combination of official campaign photos shows six of the seven women candidates standing in Vanuatu’s election [clockwise from top left]: Vanessa Molisa, Julia King, Nora Wells, Madeleine Tom, ...

A girl runs through the boardwalks of the Motuan coastal village of Hanuabada in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Pictured on Nov. 15, 2018. (Aaron Favila/AP Photo) Pacific island children are ...

The Prince Group headquarters in Phnom Penh are seen in this undated photo. (Google Street View) (Photo: RFA) The governments of Taiwan and Palau have both been warned that offers of investment from ...

Papuans demonstrate against the Indonesian government in front of the presidential palace in Jakarta, Aug. 28, 2019. (Bay Ismoyo/AFP) Pacific island nations have tempered their protests against ...

Then U.S. President Donald Trump sporting a flower lei after arriving aboard Air Force One at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, U.S. Nov, 3, 2017. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Growing U.S. security and ...

Roger Hess, a member of the mine action group Norwegian People’s Aid, holds a Type 91 grenade used by the Japanese military during WWII on the island of Peleliu, Palau, Nov. 26, 2024. (Harry ...

Philippine Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos Jr. speaks to reporters in Manila following the arrests of four police officers, June 5, 2024. (AP) Four Philippine police officers have been arrested on ...

Satellite imagery taken on Oct. 11, 2024, shows a new runway on Barque Canada reef. (Planet Labs/RFA) The latest satellite imagery has revealed a new airstrip taking shape on Barque Canada reef, an ...

A Bangladesh army man stands guard near the parliament house amid a curfew following deadly civil unrest, in Dhaka, July 22, 2024. ( [Munir uz Zaman/AFP]) An uneasy calm prevailed in Bangladesh’s ...