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Tahiti sailors win 2024 Regatta in Raro

Sailors from Tahiti edged over Rarotonga, proving to be very competitive taking out first place in both the Lasers and the Optimist classes, winning the 2024 sailing challenge overall trophy.

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Former PM Puna first Cook Islander elected to East-West Center Board

Former Cook Islands prime minister and secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum, Henry Puna, has been confirmed as the first Cook Islander appointed to the East-West Center Board of Governors based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Aid effort 'missing the boat'

AUCKLAND – A Pacific community leader in Auckland is upset at what he calls “a heartless approach” from the New Zealand government to the collection of aid for cyclone-hit Fiji.

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Fiji: Nearly 60,000 people homeless

SUVA – The damage bill from Cyclone Winston in Fiji has already reached $650 million, the government says, with thousands of people still living in evacuation centres.

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Massive Waimea as 'Eddie' called on!

WAIMEA BAY – The world’s top big wave surfers are out in giant Waimea Bay waves honouring one of Hawai‘i’s most prestigious surfing events.

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Fiji faces infrastructure rebuild

SUVA – Aid has begun arriving in some of the remote areas of Fiji that were hit hardest by Cyclone Winston at the weekend.

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45,000 in evacuation centres

SUVA – The Fiji government says there are more than 45,000 people, or about five per cent of the population, in evacuation centres following Cyclone Winston.

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Baby born in damaged hospital

RA – The first post cyclone baby to be born at a maternity hospital in Fiji’s badly hit Ra province probably won’t be called Winston.

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Kiwis chip in to buy beach property

AWAROA INLET – A public campaign in New Zealand to buy a beach property in the Abel Tasman National Park has been successful.

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Fiji's tourism industry takes big hit

NADI – Fiji’s tourism industry has taken big hit following Cyclone Winston.

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Cyclones hit children the hardest

OPINION By Ethan Donnell UNICEF Fiji is reeling from one of the worst storms to hit the Pacific in fifty years after Cyclone Winston tore across the country this weekend.

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Scenes of total destruction

SUVA – Fiji is likely to need more international assistance as it rebuilds after Cyclone Winston, says a government spokesperson.

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Cyclone death toll increases

SUVA – The death toll from super-cyclone Winston that hit Fiji on the weekend has reached 42, with reports emerging of entire villages wiped out on some remote islands.

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Region rallies to support Fiji

SUVA – Fiji’s regional partner countries say they will be guided by the Fiji government over how best they can provide help in the wake of Cyclone Winston.

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Island 'flattened' by cyclone

SUVA – One island has been virtually flattened, the Fijian government says.

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Fiji fronts up to devastation

SUVA – The death toll from Cyclone Winston, which tore through Fiji on the weekend, has risen to 29, officials say.

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Fiji's PM calls for patience

SUVA – “This is a time of sorrow, but it will also be a time of action,” Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has said in a speech in the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Winston.

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French Polynesia clarifies insecticide use for Zika

PAPEETE – Health authorities in French Polynesia say they never used the insecticide which Argentinian experts link to the large number of microcephaly cases in Brazil’s Zika outbreak.

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Zika case confirmed in the Marshall Islands

MAJURO – The Marshall Islands Health Department has confirmed its first zika virus case in the country.

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Tourists describe cyclone horror

NADI – Australians and New Zealanders in Fiji have described the “harrowing” experience of Tropical Cyclone Winston, thought to be the biggest storm to ever hit the Southern Hemisphere.

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Massive storm damage in Fiji

Massive storm damage in Fiji SUVA – Aerial images of outer islands show massive devastation to homes and vegetation after Cyclone Winston hit Fiji at the weekend.

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Samoa beaten 85-0 in Melbourne

MELBOURNE – Samoa A were thrashed 85-0 by the Melbourne Rebels Super Rugby team in one-off clash at AAMI Park on Friday night.

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