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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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PNG Prime Minister James Marape
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Marape’s message to PNG men, boys: ‘Stop the violence against women’

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February 23, 2025
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Avera Mengistu, a 37-year-old Ethiopian Israeli dual national, being released
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Abdullah Al-Yazouri, the 13-year-old boy who acts as narrator
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Al Jazeera's senior political and media analyst Marwan Bishara
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French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls
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France’s Minister Valls faces tough talks in New Caledonia over future

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February 21, 2025
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Fij's planned Jerusalem move . . . illegal under international law
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Fiji’s diplomatic move to Jerusalem sparks controversy with Palestine

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February 21, 2025
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Dark Times Academy
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Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque
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Cook Islanders march in Avarua against Mark Brown government

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Samir Al-Mana'ama, a lawyer with the Al Mazan Center for Human Rights
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February 17, 2025
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Former NZ Prime Minister Helen Clark, Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown
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Outbrain propaganda
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Chinese Premier Li Qiang meets with Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown (left) in Harbin
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Pacific verdict on COP29
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A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"
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In the Eye of the Storm
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Pacific Climate Warriors
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How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent
Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

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Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all
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The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
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Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide
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Isolation hasn't been the greatest enemy for the people of Tongareva; arguably, it's engagement with the outside world that's done them more harm

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September 3, 2026
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