Pacific islands
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New Zealand raises ‘concern’ as Cook Islands prepares to sign China deal
Deputy PM says New Zealand hasn’t been adequately consulted on an agreement the Cook Islands leader is expecte…
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Leaders in the Pacific raise alarm over ‘direct impact’ of Trump’s climate retreat and aid freeze
Samoa’s prime minister says US withdrawal from Paris climate agreement is ‘very disappointing’ and puts the su…
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Samoa’s prime minister criticises RFK Jr’s vaccine views after deadly measles outbreak
In an exclusive interview, Fiame Naomi Mataʻafa tells the Guardian she is surprised at Trump’s pick for health…
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‘Never seems to end’: exhausted quake-hit Vanuatu rebuilds again
True cost and psychological toll of the December quake emerges as the Pacific country grapples with its third …
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Vanuatu holds election amid earthquake devastation
Residents line up to vote amid political instability and buildings and infrastructure shattered by last month’…
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‘No one will stop our people’: Bougainville president defiant in push for independence
Ishmael Toroama tells the Guardian sovereignty from Papua New Guinea is a ‘matter of time’ as long-running pro…
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New Caledonia Congress elects pro-France president after political crisis
New leader Alcide Ponga says people want a ‘signal of hope’ after turmoil in the French Pacific territory Week…
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‘Moving to the mountaintops’: rising seas displace tens of thousands in Papua New Guinea
Gulf province councillor says growing numbers are leaving, in what climate activist describes as a ‘humanitari…
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Fiji defence minister welcomes US security deal and criticises China missile test
Pio Tikoduadua tells the Guardian the Pacific is ‘not a space for missile testing’ after China’s launch earlie…
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Rescuers in Vanuatu race to retrieve trapped quake victims as survivors tell of escape
Witnesses recount the moment the earthquake hit in Port Vila, as rescue teams sift through the wreckage after …
- Asia Pacific, Climate crisis, International court of justice, Pacific islands, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, World news
Top UN court to begin hearings on landmark climate change case
ICJ to hear submissions from more than 100 groups in Pacific-led campaign to provide an advisory opinion on st…
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Taiwan president stops in Hawaii during Pacific tour, drawing ire from China
Lai Ching-te’s US stopover on trip to Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Palau – three diplomatic allies of the self…
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New Zealand navy ship sank off Samoa because autopilot was left on, inquiry finds
Interim report into the October disaster blames human error, saying HMNZS Manawanui’s ‘autopilot was not disen…
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The Cop29 agreement failed island states. Now the UN’s top court must act on climate harm | Ralph Regenvanu
The shortcomings of Cop29 increase the urgency for the ICJ to issue an advisory opinion on the legal obligatio…
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‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and a visit from RFK Jr
A few months before the outbreak in 2019, Kennedy travelled to Samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contri…