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Key Ocean of Peace Alliance deliberately vague on Australian military game plan
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Ahead of the global climate summit, Pacific leaders call on nations to keep 1.5°C within reach
By Vaeno Wayne Vigulu, Richard Levy, Tim Naish
Pacific leaders are gathering in Fiji and Tuvalu for a meeting ahead of the annual global climate...
Pacific must be at centre of global climate decision-making: Fiji Climate Change Minister Tabuya
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Limiting Overshoot Report reinvigorates Pacific negotiators to hold the line on 1.5°C
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Kiribati pushes to ‘re-engineer’ climate finance ahead of COP31
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JAWS demands answers over reported seizure of Samoa journalist’s camera
The Journalists Association of Samoa (JAWS) is demanding answers over the reported removal of a Samoa Observer journalist’s camera and deletion of photographs taken...
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