The Chuuk islands — a seemingly idyllic spot in the Pacific Ocean, northeast of Indonesia and north of Australia and Papua New Guinea — is one of the four states making up the Federated States of ...

Super Typhoon Sinlaku killed 17 people across the western Pacific. Residents of Chuuk in the Federated States of Micronesia ...

CANBERRA, Australia-- A South Pacific airline announced Monday that a passenger died when a plane crashed into a Pacific lagoon in Micronesia last week. Air Niugini had initially said all 47 ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand-- Everybody survived a plane's crash landing in a Pacific lagoon Friday morning, with boats helping rescue more than 40 people from the half-submerged aircraft in the ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — All 47 passengers and crew survived a plane’s crash landing in a Pacific lagoon Friday morning, wading through waist-deep water to the emergency exits and escaping on local ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Divers Find Body of Passenger Who Died Escaping Micronesia Flight That Crashed in Lagoon (CANBERRA, Australia) — A South Pacific ...

Late last month, the island of Chuuk — one of four main islands comprising the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and also home to nearly half the country’s population — postponed a referendum vote ...

Dozens of Koreans held on the Chuuk Islands are presumed to have been sex slaves for Japanese troops during World War II, Seoul Metropolitan Government said Monday, a new discovery that researchers ...