During the early years of World War II, the German navy launched daring raiding missions in the Pacific Ocean - far from the ...

An "armed and dangerous" World War II bomb was dug up and defused Thursday on the small Pacific island of Nauru, the country's police force said. Schools were closed and Nauru's 12,000 residents ...

In 1941, after German ships had shelled some of Nauru's phosphate mining infrastructure ... In one of the forgotten atrocities of World War II, the five were killed by their captors, in swift ...

Japan occupied Nauru during World War II, and it eventually became a U.N. Trust territory after the war under Australian administration, according to the source. Nauru claimed independence in 1968.

Then came Japan, which occupied the country during World War II, and continued the phosphate mining. The U.S. bombed Japan's airstrip on Nauru in 1943, preventing food supplies from entering the ...

An unexploded, 220kg World War II-era bomb on Nauru has been defused by Australian and Nauruan authorities after it was discovered earlier this month. The Government of Nauru declared a state of ...

Nauru's population of 11,000 live along a coastal strip just 150-300 m (yards) wide. On Thursday morning, a 2 km area around the ... States and Japan in World War Two. The unexploded bomb was ...

Britain divides profits with German firm. 1914 - Nauru is seized by Australian troop on the outbreak of World War One, as the Allies occupy all Germany's Pacific territories. 1919 - League of ...