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Nauru formally re-establishes diplomatic relations with China after withdrawing diplomatic recognition of Taiwan.
2024-01-24

Nauru surpasses 2,000 COVID-19 cases amid an outbreak and emergency declared by President Lionel Aingimea.
2022-06-27

President Lionel Aingimea announces Nauru's first positive cases of COVID-19 in two asymptomatic people who travelled from Brisbane on March 31.
2022-04-2

President of Palau Tommy Remengesau Jr. announces he will be hosting an in-person meeting with the leaders of Kiribati, Nauru, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. Nauru's President Lionel Aingimea says the leaders agreed to attend Palau's Independence Day on October 1 as the five Pacific countries remain free of COVID-19.
2020-09-14

Voters in Nauru go to the polls to elect new members of parliament. President Baron Waqa loses his parliamentary seat so he is not able to be re-elected in the office he has been holding since 2013.
2019-08-24

Australia and the United States reach a deal to relocate asylum seekers from Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island to the U.S.
2016-11-13

Voters in Nauru go to the polls for an election. The President of Nauru Baron Waqa is reelected in his constituency.
2016-07-9

The small Pacific state of Nauru has run out of money following a legal dispute in Australia.
2014-09-26

Nauru swears in its third President in less than a week, as President Freddie Pitcher, in office for just six days, is ousted in a 9-8 vote of no confidence. Sprent Dabwido is sworn in as the new president.
2011-11-15

Nauru President Marcus Stephen dissolves Parliament, paving the way for an early general election, originally scheduled for 2011.
2010-03-16