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Criminal Threat Convergence Must Be Elevated as a National Security Urgency
Small Wars Journal
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June 25, 2025
We must move with greater urgency to confront criminal threat convergence. The cartels and some TCOs in Latin America have greater power and political influence through market diversification, networked-alliances, and coercive aggression in the...
Ottawa’s foreign aid chief eyes red tape, visibility as Canada resists cutbacks
CityNews Halifax
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June 26, 2025
OTTAWA — The MP overseeing foreign aid says Canada must take a more efficient, more visible approach to development and humanitarian assistance to make the case for maintaining aid spending as the United States pulls back. “Those that are staying...
Albanese’s travel diary fills fast as summit season begins
Sky News Australia
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June 21, 2025
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is preparing to attend more than half a dozen overseas trips or conferences by the end of 2025, Sky News Australia can reveal. Mr Albanese will attend the APEC forum in Korea, ASEAN summit in Malaysia, COP climate...
Pacific island nations face tuna crisis as warming ocean drives fish east
Environmental Health News
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June 9, 2025
A warmer Pacific Ocean is pushing tuna eastward, threatening food security, government revenue, and livelihoods across small island nations dependent on the migrating fish. Nathan Eagle reports for Honolulu Civil Beat. In short: Tuna populations...
Producers receive equipment worth $827k to boost productivity
Solomon Star
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June 16, 2025
The Solomon Islands Rural Transformation (SIART) project under the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL), has successfully handover vital agricultural equipment to several Agribusiness Producer Organizations (ABPOs) from three provinces of...
Clear government ownership structures can help boost SOE performance-PSDI
Island Times
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June 27, 2025
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (24 June 2025)—Pacific governments can improve the performance of their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and reduce fiscal risks by implementing clearer and more consistent government ownership and oversight arrangements, according...
China in the Pacific – Joint statement of the Third China-Pacific Island Countries Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
The Fiji Times
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June 26, 2025
FROM May 28 to 29, 2025, the People’s Republic of China and Pacific Island Countries having diplomatic relations with China (hereinafter referred to as “All parties”) held the third China-Pacific Island Countries Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. The...
Mumbai: Two fliers caught smuggling exotic animals
Mid Day Mumbai
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June 27, 2025
Two passengers were caught with rare and endangered species, including a brown basilisk lizard, an iguana, and a Sumatran striped rabbit, at Mumbai International Airport Sumatran striped rabbit; Northern common cuscus, animals seized by Mumbai...
Why the UN Ocean Conference 2025 Was Make-or-Break for Marine Protected Areas
The National Interest - Washington D.C.
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June 24, 2025
The 2025 UN Ocean Conference put Marine Protected Areas at the heart of global ocean action, but global progress hinges on whether the United States steps up to lead. From June 9–13, Nice, France, hosted the third United Nations Ocean Conference,...
Pacific news in brief for 27 June
RNZ
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June 26, 2025
USP Photo: Facebook / USP Papua New Guinea - education The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea James Marape has announced that PNG students at the University of the South Pacific (USP) campuses will receive govenment financial support. He also said...
Timber and koalas – can we have both?
The Fifth Estate
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June 25, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: As the NSW government announced its proposed Great Koala National Park to protect the iconic native marsupial, the timber industry raised the spectre of major job losses and economic decline for small communities in Northeastern...
Rugby League is Australia’s latest weapon in soft war with China
Love Rugby League
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June 26, 2025
Rugby League – the greatest game of all, being used as a political tool – who would have thought? In the age of mass media and digital influence, global power struggles are taking on new shapes. The Australian government has turned to an unlikely...
Government pledges to review maritime law
The Islandsun
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June 26, 2025
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU The Government for National Unity and Transformation (GNUT) pledges to review and update the country’s maritime labor laws to better reflect modern realities, including anti-harassment provisions. Minister for Infrastructure and...
Pacific leaders call for peace amid Middle East tensions as Melanesia eyes regional solidarity
Pacific Media Network
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Pacific leaders have voiced their worries about the ongoing political unrest around the world, especially the conflicts involving Iran, Israel, and the United States. The concerns were shared during a meeting of the Melanesian Spearhead Group...
Asia Pacific malaria cases rise sharply amid funding gaps
Medical News
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June 25, 2025
Malaria cases in the Asia Pacific region have surged in the last few years, reaching 4.8 million in 2024 and putting the region further off track to reaching its elimination goal by 2030, a summit heard. Cases jumped 170 per cent between 2021 and...
8 ultra-luxury cruise holidays worth splurging on
The New Zealand Herald
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June 26, 2025
Circumnavigation of Antarctica | Ponant Be part of history aboard one of the world’s most modern and luxurious icebreakers as it makes a ground (and ice) breaking journey. Departing from Ushuaia in January 2028, Le Commandant Charcot will spend 30...
Wale: explain the unauthorised SEZ deal
Solomon Star
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June 26, 2025
The Leader of Opposition Matthew Wale has called on the Prime Minister to explain what disciplinary actions he is taking against the Minister for Commerce and officials involved in the unauthorised trip to Vietnam and the controversial signing of...
Wale Calls for Explanation on Unauthorised SEZ Deal
Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation
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June 26, 2025
The Leader of Opposition Hon. Matthew Wale has called on the Prime Minister to explain what disciplinary actions he is taking against the Minister for Commerce and officials involved in the unauthorised trip to Vietnam and the controversial...
PM Manele: Small Islands, Big Solutions!
Solomon Star
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June 12, 2025
Nice, France – At a time when global leaders are searching for answers to safeguard the world’s oceans, Solomon Islands Prime Minister Hon. Jeremiah Manele delivered a firm and hopeful message at the Third UN Ocean Conference: Small Island...
Pacific islands launch plan for world’s first Indigenous-led ocean reserve
Mongabay
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June 13, 2025
The governments of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu have announced their commitment to create a massive multinational Melanesian Ocean Reserve. If implemented as envisioned, the reserve would become the world’s first Indigenous-led ocean reserve,...