The leaders of the Commonwealth group of nations will meet at a welcome banquet in Samoa in the South Pacific on Thursday, with climate change and reparations for Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade both likely to be on the agenda.

Commonwealth countries today adopted the Apia Commonwealth Ocean Declaration for One Resilient Common Future, which calls on all 56 Commonwealth nations to protect and restore the ocean in the face of severe climate,

The UK's King Charles III and Queen Camilla joined leaders of the Commonwealth nations in the Samoan capital Apia on Friday for the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting (CHOGM).

The King's visit, which started in Australia, was his first Down Under as monarch, and the meeting in Samoa was his first as head of the Commonwealth.

King Charles and Queen Camilla have released a new statement as their official visits to Australia and Samoa end. Their message, accompanied by a new photograph, expresses their thanks “to both nations for the

Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla flew out of Samoa on Saturday, after a visit in which the monarch acknowledged the Commonwealth's "painful" history, amid a push for former colonial powers to pay reparations for their role in transatlantic slavery.