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Winning Moments: 76 Photographs From The 2025 Ocean Photographer Of The Year Awards
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AOL
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The Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025 has once again brought together some of the world’s most powerful and inspiring ocean imagery. Hosted by Oceanographic Magazine, the competition celebrates the beauty of the sea while also shining a light on...
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Nuclear Testing Threats are Returning & Saber Rattling is Getting Louder, warns UN Chief
Armed Conflicts, Editors' Choice, Featured, Global, Headlines, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Energy - Nuclear Weapons, TerraViva United Nations A nuclear test is carried out on an island in French Polynesia in 1971....
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Seasteading is making a comeback — but these utopian paradises on the high seas have a history of failure
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
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10 countries with the highest life expectancy in 2025
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The Times of India
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Longevity isn’t just about luck — it’s a mix of culture, cuisine, lifestyle, and healthcare, which all come together to ensure a long and healthy life. From bustling city streets to serene island escapes, some nations have cracked the code on...
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Living with the legacy of France's nuclear weapons testing
"For 30 years, we were France's guinea pigs," says Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross, a young member of parliament from French Polynesia. This South Pacific archipelago, a French overseas territory that includes Tahiti and is famed for its white beaches,...
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Pacific Islands Ocean Conference opens with call for unity and action
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Pacific News Service
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The Second Pacific Islands Ocean Conference opened in Honiara Monday, with a strong call for unity, science and traditional knowledge to guide Pacific-led solutions for sustainable ocean governance. Speaking on behalf of the Council of Regional...
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Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban relationship timeline as couple divorce after 20 years
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Owner: Evgeny Lebedev
Nuclear weapons testing: The victims are still suffering
"For 30 years, we were France's guinea pigs," says Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross, a young member of parliament from French Polynesia. This South Pacific archipelago — a French overseas territory that includes Tahiti and is famed for its white beaches,...
Owner: German Government
Pacific news in brief for 19 September
French Polynesian President Moetai Brotherson address the UN Decolonization Committee in New York, pictured on 7 October 2024. Photo: UNTV French Polynesia - PIF French Polynesia will be the first French Pacific territory to host the Pacific...
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These cities will see the last partial solar eclipse of 2025 on Sunday
Days after the Moon turned blood-red during a total lunar eclipse, stargazers are ready for the next celestial event, the partial solar eclipse. This will be the last solar eclipse of the year, offering a spectacular celestial event visible in...
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Inside Hawaii’s 535th Airlift Squadron: How C-17 Crews Stand Ready for the Pacific
It’s July 30, 2025, and the remote Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia has just been rattled by a massive magnitude 8.8 megathrust earthquake, the strongest quake in the region since 1952 and among the most powerful ever recorded globally. The quake...
Owner: David Cenciotti
Building climate ambition through regional partnerships in the French Pacific
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Pacific Community (SPC)
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New Caledonia and French Polynesia step up climate ambition with new NDCs committing to deep emissions cuts and stronger adaptation by 2035. New Caledonia and French Polynesia are stepping up their climate commitments with updated Nationally...
Owner: Pacific Community
Our pick of the world’s best cruise lines to suit every style of traveller
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The Times
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Choosing a cruise can be complicated. There are countless lines and ships to choose from and each has its own appeal and target audience. Some go all-out to entertain families, with kids’ clubs, extravagant theatre shows, water slides and...
Owner: Murdoch Family
After nearly year-long deployment, U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker returns to Seattle
Every year the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star travels to the White Continent to deliver supplies to McMurdo Station — a research base in Antarctica. SEATTLE — After a 308-day deployment to one of the most remote regions on Earth, the U.S....
Owner: TEGNA Inc.
Pacific urged to strengthen unity in safeguarding the ocean
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU Director General of the Council of Regional Organisations of the Pacific (CROP), Noan Pakop, has called on Pacific nations for collective action to protect the region’s ocean, describing it as both “our identity and our...
Owner: Loji Family
Seasteading is making a comeback — but these utopian paradises on the high seas have a history of failure
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Yahoo News - United Kingdom
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Wayne Gramlich was there at the very beginning of the Internet. While still in high school in the mid-1970s, the now 69-year-old managed to access the nascent technology — then called the ARPANET — and he decided on MIT for college because it was...
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Crew spend their whole careers trying to come ashore … why I went the other way
“The Purser? Isn’t that just for big yachts? Usually a girl, right? Basically the chief stew or the captain’s PA? Doesn’t she just book crew flights? She’s interior crew … isn’t she?” I’ve heard these assumptions more times than I can count, both...
Owner: Martin Redmayne
Russell M. Nelson, Latter-day Saint prophet of change and pandemic, dies
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The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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Few expected the blast of energy, enthusiasm and ingenuity that swept through The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when then-93-year-old Russell M. Nelson ascended to the faith’s presidency in January 2018. After all, the former heart...
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US Nears Highest Cancer-Rate Around The World
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Zero Hedge
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Cancer is one of the world’s leading causes of death, but its prevalence varies significantly from country to country. In this infographic, Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu shows age-standardized cancer incidence rates across 180+ countries,...
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