Tongas

One year on from the massive eruption of an underwater volcano in the South Pacific, the island nation of Tonga is still dealing with damage to its coastal waters. When Hunga-Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai went off, it sent a shockwave around the…

Elon Musk's satellite Internet venture is helping to restore connectivity to the Pacific Island nation of Tonga, according to an official in Fiji where the work is underway.Tonga's sole optic-fibre link to the Internet and the rest of the…

Tonga, the Pacific nation that was struck by a powerful tsunami last weekend, consists of about 170 islands, some tiny, stretching out across 270,000 square miles, an area roughly the size of Texas.The vast majority are uninhabited. Seventy…

"On the eighth time I thought, the next time I go underwater that's it, because my arms were the only things that were keeping me above water," Lisala Folau, who is disabled and cannot walk properly, told Reuters from Tonga's capital,…

The disaster was triggered by Saturday's huge eruption of the underwater Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano and caused "unprecedented" damage to the Pacific nation. Taufatofua, who became widely recognized after being his country's…

After a powerful undersea volcanic eruption Saturday evening near the island nation of Tonga, early reports gave an indication of the expanse of its destruction. Tonga, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, is just 40 miles…

MOSCOW : Russia and Japan issued tsunami warnings after a massive undersea volcanic eruption in the island country of Tonga caused a wave surge in the Pacific, reported Sputnik. The…