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CHINAS FIRST AIRCRAFT CARRIER HEADS FOR WESTERN PACIFIC
BEIJING -- China's first aircraft carrier has set off for the Western Pacific for an open-sea training exercise, the Defense Ministry said... READ MORE›
AFGHAN GIRLS TEAM SHINES AT US ROBOTICS COMPETITION
So the competition recruited a robotics team at George C. Marshall high school in Falls Church, Virginia, to help... READ MORE›
DEVASTATED VANUATU STARTS TO GET AID
Aid from Australia and New Zealand has begun to reach the island... READ MORE›
CYCLONE PAM: VANUATU'S PRESIDENT BLAMES CLIMATE CHANGE FOR EXTREME WEATHER
Says climate change is contributing to more extreme weather conditions and cyclone seasons, after cyclone Pam ripped through the island nation... READ MORE›
CYCLONE HITS ISLAND NATION OF VANUATU KILLING 8
Vanuatu has a population of 270,000, and about 50,000 live in Port-Vila... READ MORE›
NEW WORLD WAR? CHINA TARGET OF FRENCH SHIPS JOINING US, JAPAN, UK IN PACIFIC
The expected maneuvers were viewed as a way for France to show China it's military's strength, Reuters reported Friday, citing sources... READ MORE›
3 CASTAWAYS RESCUED AFTER SPELLING 'HELP' WITH PALM LEAVES ON REMOTE ISLAND
When they did not arrive for the flight, Coast Guard was notified, U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer First Class Michael McCandless told NBC... READ MORE›
LABOR SAYS AUSTRALIA MUST 'TELL STORY OF PACIFIC TO WORLD' AT PARIS CLIMATE TALKS
The impacts of climate change are being felt acutely by Pacific nations, many of which are low-lying, remote, and with vulnerable infrastructure... READ MORE›
CYCLONE PAM: VANUATU DEATH TOLL RISES AS AUSTRALIA PLEDGES $5M IN AID AS IT HAPPENED
New Zealand is upping its financial and logistics support for Vanuatu in the wake of cyclone Pam, AAP reports... READ MORE›
PACIFIC LEADERS VOICE FRUSTRATION OVER AUSTRALIA'S POSITION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Australia and New Zealand are the economic powerhouses among the 16 nations making up the Pacific Islands Forum... READ MORE›
VANUATU DEATH TOLL IS LIKELY TO RISE AS GLIMPSES OF CYCLONES FURY EMERGE
Vanuatu has a population of about 270,000 people on 65 inhabited islands, with 50,000 people in Port-Vila... READ MORE›
CYCLONE PAM: DOZENS FEARED DEAD IN VANUATU IN 'ONE OF WORST STORMS IN PACIFIC HISTORY'
Cyclone pam dozens feared dead in vanuatu in one of worst storms in pacific history... READ MORE›
VANATU ISLANDERS FACE STARVATION 'WITHIN DAYS' FOLLOWING CYCLONE PAM
The entire population of one of Vanuatus biggest islands faces starvation within days, with all crops destroyed by Cyclone Pam, Unicef officials warned tonight... READ MORE›
TRUMP STARTS TUESDAY WITH WIN IN MARIANA ISLANDS
While you were sleeping, a few hundred people in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands were voting, and most of them voted for Donald Trump... READ MORE›
'ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME' STORM SET TO HIT TINY SOUTH PACIFIC ISLAND
Cyclone Pam Vanuatu in panic over 'once-in-a-lifetime' storm bearing down on South Pacific island... READ MORE›
HEADLINES 'EXAGGERATED' CLIMATE LINK TO SINKING OF PACIFIC ISLANDS
The major misunderstanding stems from the conflation of sea-level rise with climate change... READ MORE›
'MORE THAN 100,000' HOMELESS IN VANUATU AS PRESIDENT MAKES EMOTIONAL PLEA FOR CYCLONE PAM AID
'More than 100,000' homeless in Vanuatu as president makes emotional plea for Cyclone Pam aid... READ MORE›
VANUATU PRESIDENT: CYCLONE PAM WAS 'A MONSTER'
A boy kick a ball through the ruins of his family home as his father picks through the debris in Port Vila, Vanuatu... READ MORE›
RELIEF TEAMS REPORT DEVASTATION, DEATH AFTER VANUATU CYCLONE
Formerly known as the New Hebrides, Vanuatu is a sprawling cluster of 83 islands and 260,000 people, 2,000 km 1,250 miles northeast of the Australian city of Brisbane... READ MORE›
END OF PACIFIC SHORTWAVE DIPLOMATIC 'MISSTEP' AS ABC PULLS PLUG
The end of ABC shortwave radio broadcasts into the Pacific after 88 years has been criticised as an Australian foreign affairs 'misstep'... READ MORE›
CYCLONE PAM HITS VANUATU: MORE THAN 200,000 PEOPLE AT RISK FROM CATEGORY 5 TROPICAL STORM
Photo Plan International Australia The Vanuatu Meteorological Services warned of very destructive winds and very rough to phenomenal seas with heavy swells... READ MORE›
CYCLONE PAM: EXTRA TEAM OF 70 TAKES AUSTRALIAN RESCUE STAFF TO 123 IN VANUATU
There are believed to be 3,000 Australians in Vanuatu, more than 1,400 of whom have registered with the Australian government through Smartraveller, the government's travel advisory service... READ MORE›
MELANESIAN FAMILY DEFERS WEST PAPUA MEMBERSHIP BID
By recognising the ULMWP, the MSG has led international efforts open talks between the West Papuans group and Indonesia over its two Papuan provinces... READ MORE›
AFTER THE PACIFIC OCEAN SWALLOWS VILLAGES AND FIVE SOLOMON ISLANDS, A STUDY BLAMES CLIMATE CHANGE
At the same time that the sea level rises, climate change has brought devastating floods to the Solomon Islands... READ MORE›
A 46-NIL THRASHING BUT ITS NOT ALL BAD NEWS FOR THE WORLDS WORST FOOTBALL TEAM
He compares sending a team like Micronesia out against the giants of Fiji as being like sending a Sunday league team out to play Liverpool... READ MORE›
SUPER TYPHOON MAYSAK SLAMS INTO MICRONESIA CAUSING WIDESPREAD DAMAGE AND RISING DEATH TOLL
Maysak is forecast to remain a super typhoon through to early Friday morning, meteorologists in Guam, 1000km away, said in a bulletin Wednesday afternoon for FSM... READ MORE›
TSUNAMI WARNING AFTER PACIFIC QUAKE
The centre said tsunami waves reaching 1-3 meters 3-10ft were possible for Papua New Guinea's coastlines... READ MORE›
SINN F IN DEPUTY LEADER STANDING BY ADAMS DEFIES LOGIC
Deputy interior secretary Mahmud Aleuy said that about 4,500 people in six neighbourhoods had been evacuated as flames advanced nearby and that an additional 10,000 might need to be moved... READ MORE›
'SOS' IN SAND LEADS TO RESCUE OF SAILORS STRANDED ON ISLAND
In April, three men were rescued from the uninhabited Micronesian island of Fanadik after a large wave capsized their 19-foot skiff two miles offshore... READ MORE›
HUGE QUAKE HITS SOLOMON ISLANDS
A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands early on Friday and a tsunami warning for the South Pacific was later lifted... READ MORE›