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Bougainville's Panguna mine . . .
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Bougainville Copper Limited takes stock after Panguna licence setback

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"Don't mine the moana"
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Taking the wealth – the plunder and impoverishment of West Papua

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Expanding the Israeli illegal settlement of Ma’ale Adumim
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Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson
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Pacific delegates warn against US fast-tracking seabed mining

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The author, Laurens Ikinia, with a well-preserved mummy from the Hubula tribe in Wamena
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Jakarta at crossroads – can President Prabowo connect with Papuan hearts?

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Big stick diplomacy – the willingness to use the military – was increasingly unleashed to assert US hegemony and business interests
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Iora Open MP Theonila Roka Matbob in central Bougainville
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Bougainville woman Cabinet minister battling nine men to hold her seat

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Thai advocate and Miss Earth Thailand, Baitong Jareerat, calls for ocean protection
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‘Be brave’ warning to nations against deepsea mining from UNOC

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The Gambier Islands
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French Polynesia president announces huge highly protected marine area

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Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr
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West Papuan villagers fleeing fighting between the Indonesian military and pro-independence militants to Sugapa, the capital of Intan Jaya regency
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Human Rights Watch warns renewed fighting threatens West Papua civilians

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Former Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Henry Puna
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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
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