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Barbican shares its Artistic Vision for 2025-2030, brought to life in its autumn 2025 season
London Post
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June 24, 2025
Today, the Barbican enters a new era as it shares its Artistic Vision for 2025-2030, brought to life in its Autumn 2025 Season. Reimagining the Barbican’s programming model with ideas-led seasons that find synergies across its many artforms –...
Niue: Tally of nations with anti-homosexuality laws drops to 65
Erasing 76 Crimes
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June 23, 2025
South Pacific island nation of Niue repeals law it inherited from New Zealand Pride marcher in New Zealand poses with the flag of the tiny island nation Niue. (Claire-Eastham-Farrelly photo courtesy of NZTV) The South Pacific island nation of Niue...
How to Find and Romance Sassy Chap in Date Everything (Dateable 95)
Game Rant
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June 23, 2025
Date Everything has you romancing everything from your bed to a ship in a bottle. Literally, every item you can see in your home can most likely be dated and even hated. However, some characters are a little harder to find than others. One such...
Commentary: Trump’s Mineral Policy Offers Strategic Opportunity in the Pacific
The Ohio Star
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July 5, 2025
by Wyatt J. Greco In an April 2025 executive order, President Trump affirmed that offshore critical minerals are key to creating supply chains that do not depend on adversaries like the People’s Republic of China. While US leadership on deep-sea...
Good Sams invite women to apply for 2026 study program
Catholic News
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June 22, 2025
This year’ participants with members of the Good Samaritan community (Sisters of the Good Samaritan) The Sisters of the Good Samaritan are inviting applications for their 2026 women’s Study, Accompaniment and Mentoring Program. Source: The Good...
Lost at sea: How Tuvalu’s plight holds lessons for the future
The Interpreter
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June 22, 2025
What happens when a country ceases to exist? Where do its people go, who no longer have a citizenship to protect them? Statelessness usually follows conflict, or the dissolution or unification of a country, such as occurred with the Soviet Union,...
Global leaders unite to accelerate cervical cancer elimination efforts
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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June 22, 2025
Governments, donors, multilateral institutions, the private sector and partners today announced significant policy, programmatic, and financial commitments to eliminate one of the most preventable cancers. At the 2nd Global Cervical Cancer...
From deterrence to disarmament
Nepali Times
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June 22, 2025
22 June 2025Katsuhiro Asagiri in Santa Barbara Marking 80 years since the dawn of the nuclear age, peace advocates, diplomats, educators, and atomic bomb survivors from around the world gathered for the ‘Choose Hope’ Symposium recently in Santa...
SPTE 2025: How the World Reached the Pacific
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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July 4, 2025
The South Pacific Tourism Exchange (SPTE) 2025 was a celebration of connection, culture, and collaboration. Held in Fiji, this year’s event welcomed media, buyers, and seller’s from across the globe — and many of them arrived thanks to the...
Pacific Islands Countries Push For Action at UN Ocean Conference
The Diplomat
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June 20, 2025
Last week, more than 60 world leaders convened in Nice, France, for the third – and the most-attended – United Nations Ocean Conference. There was cause for celebration: during the week-long conference, 19 countries ratified the Agreement on...
ITLOS Judge Highlights Legal Duty To Strengthen Fisheries Enforcement At Judicial Symposium
Scoop
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HONIARA, 20 JUNE 2025 – As the Judicial Symposium 2025 wraps up today in Honiara, one of the standout moments of the three-day gathering was the keynote address delivered by Honourable. Judge Dr Kathy-Ann Brown of the International Tribunal for...
Dmakeiukl Rangers begin drone training to strengthen conservation efforts in Palau
Island Times
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June 20, 2025
On June 6, rangers from the Dmakeiukl Alliance took part in a hands-on drone training to enhance the monitoring and protection of coastal and terrestrial ecosystems in Palau. The training is part of a broader effort to strengthen the rangers’...
Letters to the Editor | June 20, 2025
The Fiji Times
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June 19, 2025
Strong finish! The historic first Women in Media (WiM) conference ended on a high note at the Grand Pacific Hotel (GPH) in Suva. A strong call was made for regional collaboration, inclusive partnerships, and sustainable funding support for...
Soccer milestone for RMI
Marshall Islands Journal
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June 19, 2025
KAREN EARNSHAW Five years ago the Marshall Islands Soccer Federation received a huge boost in the form of a small group of British soccer fans and experts who had discovered that the Marshall Islands was “the last nation on Earth without a...
From Deterrence to Disarmament: Global Advocates Call for Justice and Peace
Inter Press Service
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June 19, 2025
Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice, Global, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Energy - Nuclear Weapons, Peace, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Chie Sunada of SGI (left) moderates the first panel discussion, “From...
Funding for Cook Islands halted over China row
The Manila Times
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June 19, 2025
WELLINGTON — New Zealand announced on Thursday that it was suspending NZ$18.2 million ($10.97 million) in budget funding to the Cook Islands, as the relationship between the two constitutionally linked countries continues to deteriorate amid the...
New Zealand stops funding to Cook Islands in row over China
TVC News Nigeria
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June 19, 2025
New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in budget funding to the Cook Islands, it said on Thursday, as the relationship between the two constitutionally-linked countries continues to deteriorate amid the island group’s deepening ties with...
New Zealand cuts funding for Cook Islands in response to China deals
The Times
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New Zealand has cut millions of dollars in aid to the Cook Islands in retaliation over the Pacific nation’s deepening ties with China. Relations between Wellington and Avarua, the capital of the Cook Islands, which is 1,800 miles northeast of New...
Reinforcing the links between the law and Pacific fisheries' sectors
RNZ
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June 18, 2025
The Judicial Symposium 2025 opened on Wednesday in Honiara, bringing together Regional Chief Justices of Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu. Photo: Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency Justice experts and fisheries...
Leaked report reveals political manipulation in Fiji anti-corruption chief, key officials fired
Pacific Media Network
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A recently-leaked report from a Commission of Inquiry in Fiji has caused a stir, revealing potential political interference in the country's anti-corruption efforts. The leaked document, seen by PMN News, concerns the appointment of Barbara...