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Fiji receives Jack Ma Foundation COVID-19 protective equipment
The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat has handed over medical supplies to the Fiji Government as it battles a surge of…
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Pacific ACP Trade Ministers discuss WTO negotiations on fisheries subsidies
The Pacific ACP Trade Ministers Meeting yesterday considered an update of the WTO negotiations on fisheries subsidies agreement (FSA) and…
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Parents Who Never Stopped Searching Reunite With Son Abducted 24 Years Ago
For nearly 24 years, the father crossed China by motorbike. With banners displaying photos of a 2-year-old boy flying from…
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Europe Unveils Plan to Shift From Fossil Fuels, Setting Up Potential Trade Spats
In what may be a seminal moment in the global effort to fight climate change, Europe on Wednesday challenged the…
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Europe Is Proposing a Border Carbon Tax. What Is It and How Will It Work?
The European Union’s sweeping new plan to tackle climate change includes a proposal that if adopted would be the first…
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France Fines Google $593 Million for Lacking ‘Good Faith’ With Publishers
Google was fined 500 million euros, or $593 million, by French antitrust authorities Tuesday for failing to negotiate a deal…
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Japan Calls for ‘Sense of Crisis’ Over China-Taiwan Tensions
In unusually blunt terms, Japan on Tuesday warned that military posturing by Beijing and Washington over Taiwan was posing a…
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‘Together, We Can Become a Force’: Haitians Seek Change After Assassination
Teachers and religious leaders, lawyers and farmers, they are veterans of crisis who thought they had seen it all in…
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Europe Plans Aggressive New Laws to Phase Out Fossil Fuels
European officials are preparing to introduce ambitious legislation designed to wean one of the world’s biggest and most polluting economies…
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PILNA rescheduled to November, following overwhelming support from Pacific’s education leaders
The fourth cycle of the Pacific Islands Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (PILNA) study will proceed in November-December this year, despite…
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