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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.

PNG police say 'athletes will be safe at Games'

PORT MORESBY – The police commissioner of Papua New Guinea has assured athletes and visitors coming for next month’s Pacific Games they will be safe in Port Moresby.

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Vanuatu MPs bribery trial in court next week

PORT VILA – The trial of 16 members of the Vanuatu parliament charged with bribery offences is due to be heard in court next Tuesday.

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Threat to shut down island's hotel

YAREN – Landowners on Nauru are threatening to shut down a government-owned hotel on their land if the government continues to ignore their concerns.

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Police warn of many more arrests

YAREN – The Nauru government says many more people will be arrested over protests outside the country’s parliament.

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Nauru MP removed from aircraft

YAREN – A Nauruan opposition MP has been forcibly removed from an aircraft and prevented from leaving the country a week after he gave a controversial interview to the ABC.

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Tiny nation sends out global warning

Koror – The tiny Pacific nation of Palau, fighting a rising tide of illegal fishing in its waters, has set fire to four boats belonging to Vietnamese fishing companies caught poaching sea cucumbers and other marine life in its waters.

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California's red crab swarm linked to Pacific 'blob'

SAN DIEGO – Red crabs, by the thousands, have invaded Southern California beaches, washing ashore from San Diego to Newport Beach.

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Huge gathering farewells 'King of Porirua'

PORIRUA – Jerry Collins’ last act of heroism, sacrificing his life to protect his baby daughter’s, was revealed to thousands of mourners at the former All Black’s funeral on Wednesday.

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Razor wires removed in PNG capital

PORT MORESBY – Port Moresby is safer now than it ever was and its time for razor wires to come down, according to the National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop.

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Sacked police chief found guilty

PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s former police commissioner Geoffrey Vaki has been found guilty of contempt for not arresting the country’s prime minister on corruption charges.

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League unaware of jihadist link to Fiji

suva – The Fiji Muslim League says it is unaware of any Fiji links to alleged Fijian teenage terrorist Irfaan Hussein who died recently in the Middle East where he was fighting with Jihadists.

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MP arrested at protest on Nauru

YAREN – Protests have erupted outside Nauru’s parliament in a response to government corruption revealed last week, with an opposition MP arrested and allegedly beaten.

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Facebook flag critics given warning

SUVA – The Fiji Police Force is warning members of the public to monitor their frustrations vented on social media regarding the country’s process of creating a new flag.

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Biggest ever weightlifting field

PORT MORESBY – The strongest weightlifting field in Pacific Games history will be on show in Port Moresby next month.

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Church fights 'witch hunting' in PNG

Some may find it hard to believe that witch-hunting would occur in the 21st century. But it’s wreaking havoc still in some parts of the world – writes Ray Cavanaugh for NZCatholic, New Zealand’s national Catholic newspaper.

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Apia on track for Youth Games

APIA – Samoa is “more than ready” to host the Fifth Commonwealth Youth Games in September this year.

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People smugglers 'paid to turn back their boats'

CANBERRA – Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott has repeatedly dodged new questions about whether Australian officials paid people smugglers thousands of dollars to return 65 asylum seekers to Indonesia, only saying that his government is “prepared to do what is necessary to keep the boats stopped”.

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Abbott's dodging of questions 'confirms allegations'

This goes further than hypocrisy. Tony Abbott’s primary justification for condemning people smugglers is that they cause deaths.

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Surfer achieves perfection in Fiji

TAVARUA – Australian surfer Owen Wright notched up perfect scores twice on his way to to winning the 2015 Fiji Pro mens championship.

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Palau gives reason for ocean optimism

Efforts to conserve the world’s oceans are continually challenged by both what people put into them, and the rates at which we are taking biodiversity out of them, writes Wayne Sentman – a conservation biologist, naturalist, educator, and director of international eco-travel programme for the Oceanic Society, America’s oldest non-profit group dedicated to ocean conservation.

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