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The Fiji Rugby Union says it is disappointed its Olympic gold medal-winning sevens team was overlooked for major prizes at the World Rugby Awards.
Topics: rugby-7, rugby-union, sport, awards-and-prizes, fiji, pacific, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedThe United Nations weather agency says global temperatures in 2016 are soaring towards a record high, but a separate report shows greenhouse gas emissions have levelled off over the past three years.
Topics: climate-change, pacific, vanuatu, morocco
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New Zealand has launched a major rescue operation to help those stranded after a massive earthquake hit the south island early Monday morning, killing two people.
Topics: earthquake, pacific, new-zealand
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A young man from Tonga has just returned from a whistle stop trip to London where he was presented with the award for Commonwealth Youth Worker of the Year for the Pacific.
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| UpdatedThe 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck New Zealand at midnight has cut off communities and caused widespread damage.
Topics: earthquake, pacific, new-zealand
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| UpdatedPapua New Guinea's first female Papua New Guinean judge, Catherine Davani, has been farewelled at a ceremony in Port Moresby.
Topics: people, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedFormer coach and player with the Flying Fijians, Ilie Tabua, says he's astonished that Ben Ryan's Olympic gold medal winning sevens team failed to pick up a single prize at the World Rugby Awards.
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| UpdatedThe leader of Fiji's main opposition party says the country ought to celebrate Ratu Sukuna Day again.
Topics: community-and-society, pacific, fiji
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| UpdatedNew Zealand's south island emergency services have swung into action after a powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck near the city of Christchurch.
Topics: earthquake, pacific, new-zealand
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| UpdatedABC journalist Tom Maddocks was staying at a backpackers hostel in Christchurch when the quake struck.
Topics: earthquake, pacific, new-zealand
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| UpdatedIn Vanuatu, a judge has dismissed a constitutional appeal by the 14 disgraced MPs who are serving jail time for bribery and corruption.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, pacific, vanuatu
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| UpdatedThe FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup has kicked off in Port Moresby, with the host nation Papua New Guinea taking on Brazil in their first ever World Cup Finals game.
Topics: soccer-world-cup, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedOn paper at least it was business as usual at the Oceania Sevens in Suva, with the World and Olympic champions, Fiji defeating Samoa in the men's final, while in the women's final Olympic champions Australia got the job done against Fijiana.
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| UpdatedNovember 14 is the day chosen by the World Health Organisation and the International Diabetes Federation as World Diabetes Day.
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The Government of Nauru withdraws a bill that would have legalised abortions for refugee and asylum seeker women, after facing opposition in Parliament.
Topics: world-politics, immigration, refugees, abortion, nauru, pacific
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| UpdatedExcitement is building in Papua New Guinea as teams arrive for the FIFA Women's Under-20 World Cup football tournament, which gets underway on Sunday.
Topics: soccer, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThe Australian states of Victoria and South Australia have announced new plans to regulate the labour-hire industry, after inquiries into the exploitation of foreign workers.
Topics: work, rights, business-economics-and-finance, pacific, australia
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| UpdatedThe Disney animated film Moana is to be translated into Tahitian, one of seven Indigenous languages spoken in French Polynesia.
Topics: film-movies, animation, education, pacific, french-polynesia
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| UpdatedA new exhibition in Melbourne is artistically exploring the use of traditional Maori spiritual protections to protect people from drones.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, science-and-technology, pacific, new-zealand
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| UpdatedIndonesia's defence minister caused a stir last week when he admitted that he had asked Australia to 'send a message' to Pacific nations on West Papua.
Topics: world-politics, human, pacific, indonesia, papua, australia
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| UpdatedIt's been more than 36 hours since Donald Trump was confirmed as the US president-elect.
Topics: federal-election, us-elections, pacific, united-states
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| UpdatedOne of the promises Donald Trump made during his election campaign was to pull America out of its obligations for the Paris Agreement on Climate change.
Topics: climate-change, us-elections, pacific, palau
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| UpdatedA group of leading international scientists have reached the conclusion that climate change is affecting most of life on Earth.
Topics: climate-change, biology, biological-diversity, pacific
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| UpdatedThe future of the Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare has been called into question after he was kicked out of his own political party, the United Democratic Party.
Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, pacific, solomon-islands
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| UpdatedAs many as 4,000 hospital nurses have walked off the job in Papua New Guinea in protest at the government's failure to deliver on a promised pay rise.
Topics: health, health-administration, pacific, papua-new-guinea