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The only European player on a footy team full of Pacific Islanders reveals his surprising ...

The Daily Mail 26 Mar 2025
... Pacific Islanders.' ... The team's mission is to represent Pacific Island rugby talent and culture, but is allowed to include a limited number of players who don't have Pacific Island heritage.
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Climate-resilient healthcare for Pacific top priority for UN health agency

RNZ 26 Mar 2025
... healthcare needs of Pacific Island countries. "As a Pacific Islander, I do understand the needs that are specific for our Pacific Island countries," he was quoted as saying by Tuvalu government media.
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Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed

Grist 26 Mar 2025
Many Pacific island nations achieved their current political statuses in the wave of decolonization that marked the early years of the United Nations ... Last summer, he flew to Honolulu with the Cook Islands delegation to a Pacific cultural festival.
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How tiny South Pacific islands became part of France’s talent pipeline

The Times/The Sunday Times 26 Mar 2025
An earthquake struck Futuna in March 1993, destroying two of the island’s main churches ... Wallis and Futuna are islands about 150 miles apart, between Fiji and Samoa ... They are part of La France d’Outre-mer. Overseas France ... Sport. Rugby union ... .
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New York Islanders vs Vancouver Canucks: Injury report, where to watch, stats, betting odds and more

The Times of India 26 Mar 2025
The New York Islanders will play the Vancouver Canucks in an NHL game on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, at 7.30 p.m ... Like Canucks, the New York Islanders have had 5 losses and 5 wins in the last 10 NHL games of the 2024-2025 season.
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‘Very poorly understood’: Scientists after 6.8 quake rattles lower South Island

NewstalkZB 26 Mar 2025
... the Pacific plate ... The event occurred near a tectonic plate boundary where the Australian plate dives below the Pacific plate – the opposite way to how the two plates “subduct” in the North Island.
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China brandishes cutter for snipping deep-sea cables

Asiatimes 26 Mar 2025
Analysts warn that the tool could covertly target strategic chokepoints, such as Guam, a linchpin in US Indo-Pacific defense ... position in the Pacific connects the Indo-Pacific with the US west coast.
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Australia focuses foreign aid spending on Pacific region as US slashes aid programs

The Associated Press 26 Mar 2025
Australia plans to spend a larger share of its foreign aid on its near neighbors in Asia and the Pacific islands after the United States announced major ...
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Sulphur Vocal Dept. To Perform Timeless Musical ‘South Pacific’

Sulphur Times-Democrat 26 Mar 2025
South Pacific transports audiences to a lush island during World War II, where love, prejudice, and moral dilemmas take center stage. South Pacific explores themes of love, acceptance, and the courage to defy societal norms.
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Weather Wednesday: Low-profile weather and its impacts

Guam Pacific Daily News 26 Mar 2025
By Landon Aydlett For Pacific Daily News Mar 26, 2025 17 hrs ago 0 ... Guam and our neighboring islands of the western North Pacific are quickly pushing through the “off season” of weather ... Pacific Daily News Pacific Daily News.
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Unveiling sovereignty: Are Tongan women truly free?

RNZ 26 Mar 2025
Her research uses Pacific ... Tupou's work focuses on women's land rights, or the lack thereof, highlighting the fact that Tonga is the only Pacific island nation where laws prevent women from owning land.
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29-foot-long humpback whale found dead on South Carolina 'met some trauma' before death

Usatoday 26 Mar 2025
law and are found in waters across the country including Alaska, mid-Atlantic, Pacific Islands, and West Coast among other areas, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Budget 2025: Overseas Aid Will Be Refocused on SE Asia and the Pacific

The Epoch Times 26 Mar 2025
Pacific Island nations and some countries in Southeast Asia will get a larger share of Australia’s foreign aid as the government refocuses spending in ...
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Pammy’s Baywatch showstopper, exploding bikinis and Nasa’s banned bodysuit – Splash! review

The Guardian 26 Mar 2025
Four days after a nuclear bomb was first detonated over the Pacific islands of Bikini Atoll in July 1946, the French designer Louis Réard launched a provocative two-piece swimsuit at a poolside party in Paris ... ....
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