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The 1 May 2025 report by Talamua Online that led to the criminal libel case
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Kanak community leader Jean Baptiste
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A training session for the UN Pacific peacekeepers cohort
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Media education in Samoa
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UAS footage of RNZN divers surveying the area around HMNZS Manawanui on the Southern Coast of Upulo as part of Operation Resolution
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Naked Samoan group comedian Oscar Kightley
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Luamanuvao Winnie Laban and her husband Dr Peter Swain
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The historic signing of the nuclear-free pact, also known as the Treaty of Rarotonga, took place in Majuro during the observance of the Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day on 3 March 2025
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Marshall Islands signs treaty banning nuclear weapons in the South Pacific

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Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa
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Samoan Prime Minister Fiame survives in resounding no-confidence vote

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Miss Pacific Islands 2025, Litara Ieremia-Allan (left)
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Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa
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With 27 votes needed for a majority in Samoa's 53-seat Parliament, the path to stable leadership depends on careful negotiation and alliances
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Samoan cabinet ministers at this week's swearing-in ceremony for the new ministers
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Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa
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Solomon Islands passports
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Solomon Islands tops passport index for region’s global rankings

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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
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Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
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