An Australian helicopter pilot and two locals kidnapped in a remote part of Papua New Guinea have been released ... PNG police believed the group were motivated by a 'compensation claim'.

An Australian university professor has been taken hostage in Papua New Guinea, along with several PNG university students he was working with. The Australian university professor was one of those ...

Philip Mehrtens with TPNPB fighters in video footage sent to the BBC Separatist fighters in Indonesia's Papua region have released video footage of a New Zealand pilot taken hostage seven days ago.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A New Zealand pilot who’s been held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua region has been ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A New Zealand pilot held hostage for more than a year in ... deteriorates in Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua, a former Dutch colony in the western part of New Guinea ...