A police operation is underway in Papua New Guinea to rescue an Australian university professor and three researchers taken hostage in the country’s remote highlands. The hostage crisis began ...

Police have authorised the use of "lethal force" in Papua New Guinea and the prime minister has proposed new laws — carrying terms of life imprisonment — in response to tribal violence ...

Papua New Guinea police said 53 people have been killed in tribal violence in the country's volatile highlands, the latest in a string of mass deaths linked to long-running feuds. Police ...

Police in Papua New Guinea have launched a rescue mission after a group of foreign citizens and local guides were taken hostage by armed criminals in a remote region of the country, police said in ...

A gang killed at least 26 men, women and children in an attack on three remote villages in Papua New Guinea’s north, police said. The gang, which struck earlier this month, consisted of “30 ...

SYDNEY, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Papua New Guinea will recruit Australian police officers for key positions in its national police force under a wide-ranging security deal to be signed this week that ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. A long-awaited security pact with Papua New Guinea will see up to 50 Australian police officers join the local force and pave ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Controversial Australian government contractor Paladin is suspected of abusing taxpayer funds to bribe then-Papua New Guinea police ...

Followed categories will be added to My News. Over the past two weeks, eight PNG police cadets have been provided with the opportunity to learn about the inner workings and policing procedures of ...

(Photo: Lillian Suwanrumpha/Pool via REUTERS) SYDNEY: Papua New Guinea will recruit Australian police officers for key positions in its national police force under a wide-ranging security deal to ...