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57 countries now visa-free for Indians: What it means for travellers
For Indian travellers, the world is gradually opening up. According to the latest Henley Passport Index for 2025, Indian passport holders can now enter 57 countries without a visa in advance — either visa-free, via a visa-on-arrival, or via an...
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The climate crisis will create 1.2 billion refugees. LGBTQ+ people will be especially affected.
An estimated 1.2 billion people could be forced to migrate by 2050 due to extreme weather and natural disasters related to climate change. The hardships of relocating and sharing limited survival resources will fall hardest on LGBTQ+ climate...
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Mapped: Life Expectancy Around the World in 2025
See more visualizations like this on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization Mapped: Life Expectancy Around the World (2025) This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible...
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SI amongst world’s top fish consumers
The Solomon Islands has been ranked 33rd in the world for fish consumption per capita in 2025, according to the latest global data on fish consumption by country. According to Fish consumption by country 2025, the data shows that an average person...
Owner: Catherine Lamani
COP30: EU set to double 'fairness' payments offer for climate transition – leak
Published on 26/09/2025 - 12:05 GMT+2 EU countries are preparing to double a 2019 payment for those countries most affected to adapt their economies to climate change at the upcoming COP30, according to a Council document seen by Euronews, whilst...
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Discriminatory Migration System Fails Pacific People Facing Climate Change And Disasters
Press Release – Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand Amnesty Internationals recommendations to the Aotearoa New Zealand Government are to help people to migrate with dignity or, if they choose, to stay on their islands with dignity....
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Tindo Solar to make 70 of its Walara solar panels for the East Micronesia Cable project
Solar module manufacturer Tindo Solar has announced an order of 70 of its 430-watt Walara solar panels for the East Micronesia Cable (ESM) project, with these to be used to power data cable landing stations in Nauru and Kiribati. ESM is a 2,250...
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Solomon Islanders Call for Sustainable, Community-Driven Tourism
The Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO), in partnership with Tourism Solomons (TSO) and Solomon Islands Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT), has released the results of the 2024 Community Attitude Survey (CAS)—the first nationwide study of its...
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Timor-Leste Community Voices Highlight Tourism’s Promise and Challenges
The Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO), in collaboration with Timor-Leste’s Ministry of Tourism and Environment (MTA), released the findings of the 2024–2025 Community Attitudes Survey (CAS)—Timor-Leste’s first comprehensive national study on...
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Henley Passport Index: 57 Countries Offer Visa-Free Entry To Indians
Henley Passport Index 2025: India’s Ranking Drops But These 57 Countries Still Offer Visa-Free Entry To Indians; See Full List Inside When it comes to passports, the math is simple: a strong passport opens doors to more destinations without the...
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FEATURE: Taiwan’s ties with South Africa being shredded
Just months after Representative to South Africa Oliver Liao (廖文哲) arrived in Pretoria, South Africa began a campaign to downgrade its relationship with Taiwan — thrusting him into a geopolitical drama. While South Africa decades ago broke formal...
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ATH rakes in over $1billion in revenue
EXTENSIVE footprint across Asia Pacific had earned Amalgamated Telecom Holdings (ATH) a 10.30per cent increase in revenue for its financial year ending June 30, 2025, taking it past the $1billion mark for the first time in its history. Group...
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‘A matter of survival’: Amnesty International calls for urgent reform of Aotearoa's visa rules
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Pacific Media Network
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Amnesty International warns that Pacific people facing climate-related challenges are being blocked from migrating to Aotearoa New Zealand due to discriminatory visa rules. The organisation’s new report, Navigating Injustice, highlights how...
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Thinking a little too hard about the Dodgers’ massive payroll
In an article published yesterday, MLB.com Brewers beat writer Adam McCalvy wrote that the Dodgers “outspend the Brewers by the GDP of a developing nation.” That line was no doubt intended simply as a humorous remark, but thinking about how...
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Opinion: Christian nationalists could decide tomorrow I’m no longer white
Carl Luna recalls how Italian-American Catholics were once deemed nonwhite and non-Christian. (File photo by Ken Stone/Times of San Diego) The worldview of American white Christian nationalists is simple: America was meant to be and was at its...
Owner: Chris Jennewein
Pacific ministers endorse Fiji Military’s Blackrock camp as disaster relief depot
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Pacific News Service
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Pacific countries have officially agreed to use the Fijian Military’s Blackrock Camp as a regional humanitarian relief depot. Fiji’s Disaster Minister Inia Seruiratu announced the endorsement of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) facility...
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U.S moves to reinvigorate Pacific partnership with big pledges in Port Moresby
The United States has rolled out a sweeping package of economic, security, and health commitments to Pacific Island nations, signalling what it calls a “reinvigorated” partnership with the region. At a U.S-Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) roundtable in...
Owner: Kalafi Moala
Countering China's Maritime Insurgency in the South Pacific
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The Maritime Executive
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[By Jason Lancaster] Guadalcanal, the Coral Sea, Tarawa, New Guinea, and Iron Bottom Sound highlight the strategic location of the South Pacific during the Second World War. Today, U.S. and allied preeminence in this vital region is under threat....
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U.S moves to reinvigorate Pacific partnership with big pledges in Port…
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Pacific News Service
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The United States has rolled out a sweeping package of economic, security, and health commitments to Pacific Island nations, signalling what it calls a “reinvigorated” partnership with the region. At a U.S-Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) roundtable in...
Owner: The Pacific Islands News Association Ltd
Pacific countries review impact of biosecurity capacity building programmes
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Pacific Community (SPC)
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Biosecurity officers from across the Pacific met in Fiji recently to review the impact of biosecurity training programmes delivered under the Safe Agricultural Trade Facilitation through Economic Integration in the Pacific (SAFE Pacific) project...
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