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Vibes Kava co-founders Charles Byram (left) and Derek Hillen
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Sister Susana Vaifale and parishioner Michael Muller at St Peter's Basilica
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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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Samoa Observer: For the people or for themselves?

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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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A protest over a controversial and widely condemned series of heavily armed nationwide Te Urewera raids
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Vanuatu Police Force officers on deployment in Samoa for the CHOGM leaders’ meeting
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Pacific police chiefs open Australian base for regional rapid deployment force

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"USP leadership in crisis" banner at an earlier staff protest against the regional Pacific university's management
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Alumni group slams USP’s failure to release council meeting outcomes

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December 7, 2024
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John Taukave (left) from the Micronesian Center for Sustainable Transport and Miss Samoa Litara Ieremia-Allan (second from left) at COP29
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COP29: Pacific takes stock of ‘baby steps’ global climate summit

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Speakers at the People's Forum Session on Freedom of Expression at CHOGM 2024
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Commonwealth takes bold step to protect freedom of expression

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Tuvalu's Transport, Energy, and Communications Minister Simon Kofe
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‘We have to keep pressuring Australia to do the right thing’,...

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A Fiji protester at the weekly vigil for a Gaza ceasefire and decolonisation in Palestine, Kanaky and West Papua at the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre
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Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, who is currently in Apia for the 27th Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), was bestowed with a Samoan matai title
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How the front page of today's Samoa Observer covered the arrival of King Charles
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Global action to protect oceans from climate change
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Pacific flags -- Fiji and Tonga -- and protesters in support of Palestine at a rally in New Zealand's largest city Auckland
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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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Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

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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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Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016
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