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Venezuela’s Post-Election Moment of Truth
Foreign Policy
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Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: Violence escalates in Venezuela following Sunday’s contested presidential election, Mexico investigates the U.S. apprehension of two drug bosses, and a Brazilian...
Eyes of Fire’s new edition
Marshall Islands Journal
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July 3, 2025
Author David Robie and Little Island Press is about to publish a 40th anniversary edition of Eyes of Fire, a first-hand account of the relocation of the Rongelap people by Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior in 1985. Robie joined what turned out to be...
Ideal conditions likely on horizon for surfers at Paris Olympics, International Surfing Association says
Fox News
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July 26, 2024
Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The opening ceremonies for the highly anticipated 2024 Summer Olympics are scheduled for Friday. Meanwhile, surfers, residents and Olympic workers across...
World News | PM Modi, Vietnam Counterpart Pham Minh Chinh Hold Talks, Comprehensive Strategic Partnership on Agenda
Latestly
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August 1, 2024
New Delhi [India], August 1 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Vietnamese counterpart Pham Minh Chinh held a meeting at Hyderabad House in Delhi on Thursday. The two leaders will hold discussions to further energise the India-Vietnam...
ANZ’s International Money Transfer fee waiver to Pacific here to stay
Pacific News Service
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ANZ customers in Australia and New Zealand can continue to send money to the Pacific for free using ANZ Internet Banking or ANZ goMoney, to help the flow of funds to communities impacted by Covid-19. ANZ Regional Executive Pacific, Tessa Price,...
US couple could face trial in France over stolen shipwreck gold
The Guardian
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July 3, 2025
An 80-year-old US novelist and her husband are among several people facing a possible trial in France over the illegal sale of gold bars plundered from an 18th-century shipwreck after French prosecutors requested that the case go to court. Eleonor...
US couple risk France trial over stolen shipwreck gold
The Local - France
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July 3, 2025
An 80-year-old US novelist and her husband are among several people facing a possible trial in France over the illegal sale of gold bars plundered from an 18th-century shipwreck, after French prosecutors requested the case go to court. Eleonor...
Venezuela’s election, Sudan peace talks, and Netanyahu’s DC visit: The Cheat Sheet
The New Humanitarian
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July 26, 2024
Our editors’ weekly take on humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe. On our radar Netanyahu visits DC, as Palestinians pushed out of 83% of Gaza All eyes this week have been on events outside of the Gaza Strip. Israeli...
Airbus CEO: EU Military Equipment Spending Is Just 20% Of That In The US
Simple Flying
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July 28, 2024
Summary Europe spends 20% on defense compared to the US. European Union defense spending to increase to $380 billion by 2024. Europeans buy more non-European military equipment. According to Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury, the US is spending five...
Foreign Interference in U.S. Election Heats Up
Foreign Policy
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Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s SitRep. It’s Aug. 1—and though July was an unusually busy news month, August is so far shaping up to be just as wild. Luckily, you have SitRep’s summer reading list to keep you entertained and enlightened amid all...
Air Tahiti Orders 4 More ATR 72-600 At Farnborough International Airshow
Simple Flying
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July 24, 2024
Summary Air Tahiti has ordered four ATR 72-600 aircraft, which should be delivered between 2025 and 2028. With the Air Tahiti order, ATR has joined Airbus and Boeing in securing orders for aircraft at the Farnborough International Airshow As of...
Day 3 Round-Up: Farnborough International Airshow
Simple Flying
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July 24, 2024
Summary Despite the first two days of the Farnborough International Airshow being very active, day three included only a single order for commercial aircraft. Air Tahiti ordered four ATR 72-600 aircraft, becoming the manufacturer's first order...
This island paradise only gets a few thousand visitors a year. It just scored a huge international recognition
KMIZ ABC 17 - Missouri
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July 31, 2024
By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — The Marquesas are a beautiful, remote stretch of islands in the South Pacific. And, as of last weekend, they are also a UNESCO World Heritage site. The latest UNESCO convention added 24 new properties to its famed list...
How smugglers tried to get a record $800million cocaine shipment into Australia before authorities swooped
Daily Mail
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July 2, 2025
By CHARLOTTE MCINTYRE FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Published: 11:22 EDT, 2 July 2025 | Updated: 12:59 EDT, 2 July 2025 A cargo ship bound for Australia has been found to have a massive 2.5 tonnes of cocaine onboard, worth about $800million. Officers...
At UN conference, countries inch towards ocean protection goal
The Straits Times
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June 15, 2025
NICE, France – Remote coral atolls in the Caribbean. Habitat for threatened sharks and rays around a Tanzanian island in the Indian Ocean. And 900,000 sq km of the Pacific Ocean around French Polynesia. These are some of the stretches of water now...
Pacific Ocean Commissioner: Op -ED – Ripples to Waves:
Island Times
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July 1, 2025
By Dr Filimon Manoni, Pacific Ocean Commissioner KOROR, 30 JUNE 2025 (PIFS) — It’s been two weeks since the curtains fell on the third UN Ocean Conference. At this largest ever ocean summit, the Pacific voice echoed as a collective, calling for...
Tjibaou on New Caledonia talks in Paris: “We want to resolve this now”
Islands Business
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June 30, 2025
Koror, Palau-It’s been two weeks since the curtains fell on the third UN Ocean Conference. At this largest ever ocean summit, the Pacific voice echoed as a collective, calling for more global ocean accountability, and offering transformational...
Pacific News Briefs: Award-Winning Māori Short Film
Samoa News
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June 23, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An award-winning short film, which honors the resilience of Māori youth, has been named a finalist at the New Zealand International Film Festival. Written and directed by Aroha Awarau (Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Porou, Niue,...
Skeleton of man from ancient Egypt gives up its secrets in scientific first
The National News
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The first whole ancient Egyptian genome has been sequenced by researchers, taken from a man who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ago in the age of the first pyramids. By investigating chemical signals in his teeth relating to diet and environment, the...
China downplayed nuclear-capable missile test, classified New Zealand gov’t papers show
Hong Kong Free Press
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June 22, 2025
China tried to mislead foreign governments in 2024 by playing down the importance of a nuclear-capable missile test over the Pacific Ocean, New Zealand diplomats privately warned in documents obtained by AFP. This handout photograph, taken on...