At least one person has been killed and 19 are missing after heavy rainfall triggered a landslide at a small-scale gold mine, ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A Papua New Guinea government official has told the United Nations more than 2,000 people were believed to have been buried alive by Friday’s landslide and has ...

Torrential rains forced a halt on Monday to Indonesia’s search for 14 missing in its easternmost region of Papua after a ...

People gather at the site of a landslide in Maip Mulitaka in Papua New Guinea's Enga Province on May 24, 2024. [AFP] A massive landslide struck remote villages in Papua New Guinea's highlands ...

Indonesian rescue teams are searching for 19 missing people after heavy rain triggered a landslide at a gold mine in West ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared a polio outbreak in the country, and called for an immediate vaccination ...

A “tsunami threat” was issued for some parts of the coast of Papua New Guinea. The U.S. Tsunami Warning System said waves of 3 to 10 feet above normal tidal levels were possible near the quake ...

Earthquakes are common in Papua New Guinea, which sits atop the seismic ... they can trigger destructive landslides.

The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Thursday that polio was detected in Papua New Guinea (PNG) from a wastewater sample in the city of Lae and an environmental sample in the nation's ...

On Sudest Island in southern Papua New Guinea, a creature covered in ticks moved across the rainforest floor. Its slithering body, more than a foot long, was snatched up by a research assistant in ...

A landslide at a gold mine in Indonesia's Papua has killed at least six with over a dozen missing:: May 19, 2025:: Arfak ...