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Sharm el-Sheikh, EGYPT — Pacific climate activists have challenged the United States' assertion at COP27 that it is a 'global climate leader'.
President Joe Biden announced commitments to accelerating his Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience, including a further $US150 million in Egypt.
He...
Honolulu, HAWAII — The US Coast Guard Cutter Oliver Berry has been conducting security operations in Samoa’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), identifying six violations from either local or foreign fishing vessels.
A news release issued by the U.S. Coast Guard confirms that the vessel conducted four...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's former Assistant Electoral Commissioner, Afualo Daryl Mapu, has been sentenced to jail on drugs charges.
Afualo, 39, was found guilty of charges of possession of narcotics, utensils, unlawful weapons, unregistered firearms, unlawful ammunition, and ammunition without permit....
Apia, SAMOA — Talamua Online is reporting that Samoa police have charged a man in his mid-fifties for allegedly bashing a student with a timber close to the old Savalalo market last weekend.
The man was identified in social media footage hitting a St. Joseph’s College student with a timber followed...
Sharm El-Sheikh, EGYPT — The Tuvalu government has urged countries to establish a global treaty to phase out the use of fossil fuels.
Speaking at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt, Tuvalu's Prime Minister Kausea Natano said "the warming seas are starting to swallow our lands - inch by inch. But the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The economies of American Samoa and Samoa as well as twenty other Pacific island countries and territories is the focus of a federal probe and review, following a request by Ambassador Kathrine Tai of the Office of the U.S Trade Representative (USTR).
“The United States...
Apia, SAMOA — The new President of Samoa's Land and Titles Court has described recent changes to the Land and Titles Act as ill-conceived and poorly drafted.
The Samoa Observer reports Lesatele Rapi Va'ai was speaking after he was sworn in by the Head of State.
He noted that Samoans believe the...
Apia, SAMOA — In Samoa, a repeat drug offender has been jailed and will serve two years and eight months in total for several concurrent sentences.
The Samoa Observer reports Junior Filifili Prichard of Vaigaga had also been assessed to have a severe dependence on both methamphetamine and marijuana...
Washington — The powerful January 15 underwater eruption of Tonga’s Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in the South Pacific produced a plume that soared higher into Earth’s atmosphere than any other on record – about 57 km – as it extended more than halfway to space, researchers said on Thursday....
Mt Hagen, PNG — Police in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea, have arrested a mother who allegedly killed her three children and dumped their bodies in a river.
The National reports the children as one eight-year-old boy and two girls aged five and three.
Western Highlands police commander Superintendent...