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How Secure Are Taiwan’s Remaining Diplomatic Partnerships?
The Diplomat
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June 26, 2025
In the intricate landscape of global diplomacy, shaped by the shifts in Donald Trump’s foreign policy and ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, an intense struggle persists over the diplomatic recognition of Taiwan – formally known as...
World News | World Bank Warns 39 Fragile States Falling Further Behind as Conflicts Grow, Get Deadlier
Latestly
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June 27, 2025
Washington, Jun 27 (AP) The world's most desperate countries are falling further and further behind, their plight worsened by conflicts that are growing deadlier and more frequent. That is the sobering conclusion of the World Bank's first...
World Bank warns that 39 fragile states are falling further behind as conflicts grow, get deadlier
Associated Press
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June 27, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The world’s most desperate countries are falling further and further behind, their plight worsened by conflicts that are growing deadlier and more frequent. That is the sobering conclusion of the World Bank’s first comprehensive...
French imperialism in New Caledonia and Pacific targets China
World Socialist Web Site
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June 21, 2025
French president Emmanuel Macron chaired a Pacific-France summit on June 10, on the sidelines of the UN Oceans Conference held in Nice from June 9-13. Leaders from Papua New Guinea, Palau, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, the...
'67 Bombs to Enid' wins best documentary at deadCenter film festival
News9 - Oklahoma
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A powerful new documentary telling the story of nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands and its impact on thousands now living in Oklahoma has won Best Documentary at the deadCenter Film Festival. A Story of Survival and Legacy 67 Bombs to Enid,...
Shell museum announces new nudibranch exhibit
Sanibel-Captiva Islander and Island Reporter and Captiva Current - Florida
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/News 1 / 5 SCOTT JOHNSON Phyllidia madangensis 2 / 5 GABRIEL JENSEN Elysia ornata 3 / 5 GABRIEL JENSEN Felimare picta 4 / 5 BAILEY-MATTHEWS NATIONAL SHELL MUSEUM & AQUARIUM Green abalone from the “All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Amazing Abalone...
What a Potential Travel Ban on Tuvalu Reveals About US Foreign Policy Under Trump
The Diplomat
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June 25, 2025
In mid-June 2025 reports emerged that the Trump administration would consider adding to its existing travel ban on 19 countries (signed in early June) an additional 36 countries, including three in the Pacific: Vanuatu, Tonga, and Tuvalu. In an...
Where the Black Freedom Struggle Meets the Anti-Nuke Movement
Inkstick Media
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June 25, 2025
I usually spend holidays one of two ways. I either work the whole day tying up loose ends or do something totally unrelated to my job, which deals with topics I think we can all agree can be a bit grim at times — nuclear proliferation, curbing the...
Korea’s Nuclear Landscape: Past and Present
The Diplomat
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June 24, 2025
The Korean Peninsula is no stranger to nuclear weapons. The quest to build a Korean bomb goes back to Kim Il Sung’s efforts in the 1950s. Beginning in 1958, the United States deployed multiple nuclear weapons systems in the South, reaching a peak...
What sharks are worth—and why that matters
Mongabay
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June 25, 2025
Stefanie Brendl, founder of Shark Allies, transitioned from shark tourism to advocacy after a pivotal free-diving encounter with a tiger shark, leading her to champion the world’s first shark fin trade ban in Hawaii. Her legislative work has since...
What these Tahitian women want you to know about France's nuclear testing
Hawaii Public Radio
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June 16, 2025
Although France conducted nearly 200 nuclear tests in the South Pacific during the 20th century, few Tahitians have received compensation to this day. That's unlike the Marshall Islands, which has a treaty with the United States that allows...
Threatened whale species found in areas earmarked for deep sea mining
Euronews
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By Euronews Green Published on 24/06/2025 - 18:14 GMT+2 Two areas being targeted for deep sea mining in the Pacific Ocean are home to dolphins and threatened whales, a new scientific survey reveals. Sperm whales, listed as vulnerable by the...
Greenpeace survey finds ‘beautiful’ and vulnerable whale species in areas marked for deep sea mining
Euronews
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By Euronews Green Published on 25/06/2025 - 12:22 GMT+2 Two areas being targeted for deep sea mining in the Pacific Ocean are home to dolphins and threatened whales, a new scientific survey reveals. Sperm whales, listed as vulnerable by the...
China irks NZ as its influence spreads in the South Pacific
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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June 23, 2025
Hong Kong, June 23 (ANI): The Pacific Islands are considered a point of vulnerability for Chinese encroachment and influence peddling, and the Cook Islands is following in the footsteps of Vanuatu and Solomon Islands in signing strategic deals...
World News | China Irks NZ as Its Influence Spreads in the South Pacific
Latestly
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June 23, 2025
Hong Kong, June 23 (ANI): The Pacific Islands are considered a point of vulnerability for Chinese encroachment and influence peddling, and the Cook Islands is following in the footsteps of Vanuatu and Solomon Islands in signing strategic deals...
Reflections from UNOC3: Reimagining Ocean Governance in the Pacific
IUCN
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Still, I waited for the calm after the conference to collect my thoughts and reflect: Was it all worth it? Did we, as a global ocean community, achieve what we set out to do? And more importantly, what does it mean for our work at the...
'Slow but sure' economic rise in most of Pacific - World Bank
RNZ
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June 23, 2025
Photo: AFP The Pacific regional economy is growing, slowly but surely, reports the World Bank. In their latest Pacific update, released 17 June, they argue for more employment of women to help the economy amidst global economic uncertainty,...
Pacific Mini Games: 12 Nations Set for Historic 3x3 Showdown
FIBA Basketball
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KOROR (Palau) – The Pacific Mini Games are set to tip-off next week, with 3x3 action spanning from July 1 through to July 9. For the first time in the region, the event will uniquely serve as both a FIBA 3x3 Youth Nations League and a Commonwealth...
What Happens When a Country Sinks?
The Maritime Executive
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[By Sheridan Ward] 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...
PNG Prime Minister Calls for Reform and Unity in Pacific Islands Forum
Papua New Guinea Today
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June 23, 2025
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has reaffirmed his government’s commitment to a reformed, inclusive, and united Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), calling on regional leaders to reshape the body to reflect the modern aspirations of Pacific...