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Caretaker PM James Marape (right)
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France's Socialist Party sealed a deal to join the French Left's first broad coalition pact in 20 years
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Central Province voters in the PNG elections
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The K1.3 million stashed in a suitcase on a plane from Port Moresby bound for Komo
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The PNG Post-Courier's front page picture on Monday of the money in a suitcase
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Pro-independence French Polynesian MP Moetai Brotherson
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Voters looking for their names as Papua New Guinea went to the polls
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PNG Defence Force soldiers arrive in Kavieng for the elections
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New Caledonia's Southern Province president Sonia Backès
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The People's National Congress (PNC) campaigning ahead of the PNG general election
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PNG elections and the economy: Marape vs O’Neill

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Last minute PNG pre-election clean-up at the weekend
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Pacific verdict on COP29
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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
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Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
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Sydney CAM Rally . . . CAM uses tactics including social media, lobbying politicians and convening conferences to relentlessly pursue its goal of entrenching the IHRA definition of antisemitism into policy at all levels

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