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‘Unite’, or we lose drug fight
The Fiji Times
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July 16, 2025
Pacific Island Countries don’t stand a chance against the drug crisis, at least not alone. Head of the Pacific Programme at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), Virginia Comolli warned that fragmented efforts are...
Friends to all: Competing for Pacific security partnerships
The Strategist
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July 16, 2025
The Pacific faces a rapidly evolving security environment. Foreign partners increasingly compete for comprehensive partnerships, engagements, coordination and influence. Security risks are also evolving, with a greater emphasis on climate- and...
EXERCISE TALISMAN SABRE TO BE CONDUCTED IN PNG FOR THE FIRST TIME
EMTV
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July 15, 2025
For the first time, over 35, 000 military personal will be arriving in the shores of Papua New Guinea. The military personal will be taking part in the Australia’s largest bilateral military exercise, the Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025. The exercise...
King Tupou VI inaugurates Lapaha wind farm
Talanoa 'O Tonga
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July 14, 2025
King Tupou VI yesterday officially opened Tonga’s largest wind farm in Lapaha. His Majesty King Tupou VI yesterday presided over the commissioning of Tonga’s largest wind farm at Lapaha, Tongatapu, marking a major step forward in the nation’s...
I never believed my child would one day have a birth certificate – Binga villager says in salute to ongoing remote registration blitz
New Zimbabwe
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July 15, 2025
By Leopold Munhende recently in Binga WITH his wife seated on the carrier and their one-year-old son on her back, Honest Mudenda (28) cycled 10 kilometres on a perry bike to register a birth certificate last Wednesday, a two-hour ride through...
Taxing the world’s most generous givers
The Interpreter
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July 14, 2025
Remittances are more than just financial transactions, they are a lifeline for millions of families, a catalyst for economic empowerment, and a key driver of sustainable development. So, it is concerning to see these international transfers put at...
Communities Can’t Foot The Bill For Climate Crisis
Business Scoop
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Press Release – Te Pati Maori The corporations who are fuelling the climate crisis should be the ones paying for adaptation and recovery its not the communitys fault that their houses are flooded, why should they have to pay? Te Pāti Māori sends...
Pacific Nations Cup 2025 closes with champions crowned
Samoa News
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July 14, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Tennis Association (ASTA) proudly announces the successful conclusion of the 2025 Pacific Nations Cup, hosted from June 30 to July 5, with final matches played on July 6 after weather-related delays....
‘Voyage to Zero’ | Shipping company launches new program
The Fiji Times
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July 15, 2025
Swire Shipping launched its Voyage to Zero carbon insetting program onboard its MV Apia Chief vessel in Suva last week. Carbon insetting allows companies to reduce their carbon footprint by investing in emissions reduction or carbon removal...
Australia’s war drills seen to catch Chinese attention
Inquirer
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July 15, 2025
MELBOURNE, Australia — The largest-ever warfighting drills in Australia, Exercise Talisman Sabre, is underway and expected to attract the attention of Chinese spy ships. Talisman Sabre began in 2005 as a biennial joint exercise between the United...
NZ Youth Choir Wins CHOIR OF THE WORLD
Scoop
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New Zealand Youth Choir has won CHOIR OF THE WORLD / Supplied The New Zealand Youth Choir has won CHOIR OF THE WORLD at the 2025 Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in Wales. This follows their massive win at the European Choir Games in...
Who is Peter Hola? Former Canberra Raiders forward to debut for the Dolphins
Sporting News
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July 15, 2025
Peter Hola will pull on the Dolphins jersey for the first time on Thursday night, named on the bench for the Round 20 showdown against the Cowboys at Suncorp Stadium. The former Canberra Raiders forward joins Kristian Woolf’s side amid a reshuffle...
Homer’s Rev. Lisa Talbott takes new role as “assistant to the Bishop for Equity and Intercultural Competency” for the United Methodist Church in the Pacific Northwest
KBBI AM 890 - Alaska
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July 14, 2025
Lisa Talbott grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. She arrived there with her family in elementary school with her father involved in the air cargo industry. “I remember, even as a small child, stepping off the airplane and leaving the airport and feeling...
Battlegroup Warhorse tests brigade’s mettle
CONTACT Magazine
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July 11, 2025
Army’s 7th Brigade faced a well-trained and lethally armed ‘enemy’ during its South Queensland Warfighter Exercise at Queensland’s Shoalwater Bay Training Area. CAPTION: Battlegroup Warhorse Boxer combat reconnaissance vehicle, from 2nd/14th Light...
South Pacific threats are rising. JORN now needs to look eastwards
The Strategist
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July 14, 2025
Australia’s eastern maritime approaches haven’t got much attention since World War II. Defence policy has tended to look northwards and westwards. So, too, do the three great Jindalee over-the-horizon radars that we have deep inland. But this year...
US and Allies Train Forces for Pacific War With China
Newsweek
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July 15, 2025
The United States, along with its allies and partners, is conducting a large-scale war game in Australia to train for maintaining stability in the Pacific amid growing threats from China. The three-week-long Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025—the...
Seabed Strategy: Why Nauru Should Be Central to Trump’s Deep-Sea Mining Vision
[your]NEWS
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July 14, 2025
By Emmanuel Ogbonna In an executive order issued in April 2025, President Donald Trump emphasized the strategic necessity of offshore critical minerals in building U.S. supply chains that are independent of adversarial nations like the People’s...
FEATURE | The development of Fiji’s maritime force
The Fiji Times
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July 12, 2025
THE establishment of the Fiji Navy Squadron of the Royal Fiji Military Forces included the incorporation of naval traditional beliefs observed by the Royal Navy and Fijian traditional seafarers during the colonial era. Defender of the sea The term...
Multinational battlegroup practises urban ops
CONTACT Magazine
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July 9, 2025
Army’s Brisbane-based 7th Brigade kicked off the South Queensland Warfighter Exercise with more than 1500 soldiers from five nations training at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area. CAPTION: Australian Army soldiers from 8th/9th Battalion, Royal...
Health data restored after cyberattack but gaps remain
Talanoa 'O Tonga
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July 12, 2025
National Health Information System fully restored three weeks after cyber‑attack, says health minister. Tonga’s National Health Information System, hacked over three weeks ago, has been restored, Health Minister Hon Dr ʻAna ʻAkauʻola announced on...