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The government of New Zealand halts its financial support to the Cook Islands over a partnership agreement signed with China earlier this year.
2025-06-18

The Cook Islands signs a five-year memorandum of understanding to collaborate with China in seabed mining, which includes technology transfer, logistics support, and deep-sea ecosystem research.
2025-02-22

The Cook Islands suspends its travel bubble with New Zealand and moves to Alert Level 2 following the confirmation of the first community case of COVID-19 in six months in New Zealand.
2021-08-17

The Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, Mark Brown, calls the threat of five nations (Palau, Nauru, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia) withdrawing from the Pacific Islands Forum in case their nominee is not elected as Secretary-General as "premature" and "extreme".
2020-11-1

Former Prime Minister of the Cook Islands Joe Williams, aged 85, becomes the second COVID-19 death in 24 hours.
2020-09-4

Cook Islands Prime Minister Henry Puna says he is stepping down in September after nearly a decade in power. His deputy and Finance Minister Mark Brown will take over.
2020-06-17

The Cook Islands announces it will retain its ban on homosexual practices by men and that it will be extended to women as well. Homosexuals face up to seven years of imprisonment on the islands.
2019-11-5

The Cook Islands announces the country's first ever HIV infection.
2010-12-17

The Cook Islands Party wins a majority of seats in the Cook Islands general election, defeating the incumbent Democratic Party. Henry Puna will become the next Prime Minister.
2010-11-19

People in the Pacific island nation of Cook Islands go to the polls for the general election as well as a referendum on reducing the number of MPs.
2010-11-17