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Nearly a third of Tuvalu citizens enter ballot for climate-linked visa to relocate to Australia
The Guardian
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June 26, 2025
Almost a third of citizens in the Pacific nation of Tuvalu are seeking a landmark visa in the context of climate change to live in Australia as rising seas threaten their palm-fringed shores, official figures show. Australia is offering visas to...
Why most Pacific governments stand with Israel
RNZ
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June 26, 2025
A supporter of Israel holds an Israeli flag in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, on 8 October. Photo: JULIA NIKHINSON / AFP Amid uncertainty in the Middle East, one thing remains clear: most Pacific governments continue to align...
What a Potential Travel Ban on Tuvalu Reveals About US Foreign Policy Under Trump
The Diplomat
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June 25, 2025
In mid-June 2025 reports emerged that the Trump administration would consider adding to its existing travel ban on 19 countries (signed in early June) an additional 36 countries, including three in the Pacific: Vanuatu, Tonga, and Tuvalu. In an...
Nearly one-third of Tuvalu citizens seek Australia's climate visa
Rotorua Daily Post
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“Australia recognises the devastating impact climate change is having on the livelihoods, security and wellbeing of climate-vulnerable countries and people, particularly in the Pacific region,” Australia’s foreign affairs department told AFP....
Judge Brown highlights legal duty to address IUU
The Islandsun
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June 25, 2025
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU Judge Dr Kathy-Ann Brown of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) has highlighted legal duty as one tool for addressing Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing in the Pacific region. A press...
Lost at sea: How Tuvalu’s plight holds lessons for the future
The Interpreter
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June 22, 2025
What happens when a country ceases to exist? Where do its people go, who no longer have a citizenship to protect them? Statelessness usually follows conflict, or the dissolution or unification of a country, such as occurred with the Soviet Union,...
ITLOS Judge Highlights Legal Duty To Strengthen Fisheries Enforcement At Judicial Symposium
Scoop
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HONIARA, 20 JUNE 2025 – As the Judicial Symposium 2025 wraps up today in Honiara, one of the standout moments of the three-day gathering was the keynote address delivered by Honourable. Judge Dr Kathy-Ann Brown of the International Tribunal for...
China’s gray-zone hybrid threats against Taiwan’s Pacific allies
Asia Times
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July 14, 2025
This article was originally published by Pacific Forum. It is republished with permission. In the Indo-Pacific’s intensifying great power competition, Taiwan’s Pacific allies – Palau, the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu—are increasingly caught in the...
FITNESS to Fight Corruption. Malimali's Tuvalu admission - Drunk and Crashing Out in the Judge's Hotel Room who was hearing her client's case- a damaging blow to FICAC's Integrity. Her SACKING is JUSTIFIED
Fiji Leaks
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June 19, 2025
Fijileaks: Under Judicial Service Commission (JSC) standards, knowledge of such serious misconduct—specifically, Malimali admitting to drinking and “crashing out” in a judge’s room during the Tuvalu appeal—would almost certainly have disqualified...
UN General Assembly adopts resolution demanding immediate Gaza ceasefire
Global Times
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The result of the vote to adopt a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza is shown on the screens during an Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York, on June 12, 2025. The General Assembly,...
The Malimali Version. She breaks cover at COI about Tuvalu hotel: 'There was this old dude there. I think I got drunk...I had a beer, then a few more beers-then I think, I may have had a couple of whiskeys-then blacked out
Fiji Leaks
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June 18, 2025
The then Justice Norman Franzi Fijileaks: While we are withholding the full report, we are publishing a limited, verified extract from the COI Report which directly relates to what came to be known as the 'Tuvalu Tryst' between Malimali and the...
Nigeria seeks support for IMO election
Punch
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June 18, 2025
The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, has engaged in high-level meetings with leaders from several island nations to solicit support for Nigeria’s bid for election into Category C of the International Maritime Organisation...
Nigerian Foreign Minister Woos US Govt With Mineral Resources In Exchange For Visa Access For Government Officials, Businessmen
Sahara Reporters
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Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, has signalled a strategic offer to the United States: access to critical earth minerals in exchange for easing visa restrictions on government officials. Speaking during the 54th...
Reinforcing the links between the law and Pacific fisheries' sectors
RNZ
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June 18, 2025
The Judicial Symposium 2025 opened on Wednesday in Honiara, bringing together Regional Chief Justices of Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu. Photo: Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency Justice experts and fisheries...
IMO election: Oyetola courts Island nations’ support for Nigeria
The Sun Nigeria
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June 18, 2025
By Steve Agbota The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola has engaged in high-level meetings with leaders from several island nations to solicit support for Nigeria’s bid for election into Category C of the International Maritime...
Treasury’s migration forecast looks shaky as long-term numbers set to surge
Independent Australia
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Despite Treasury’s forecast of a migration cooldown, policy settings suggest Australia’s population surge is far from over, writes Dr Abul Rizvi. TREASURY IS FORECASTING net migration settling long-term at around 230,000 per annum. While this is...
Judicial symposium on fisheries law in Honiara
Solomon Star
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June 17, 2025
A judicial symposium to tighten awareness on international fisheries law at the national, regional and international levels will commence in Honiara on Wednesday. The three symposium will be held at the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) Conference...
Friends to all: Competing for Pacific security partnerships
The Strategist
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July 16, 2025
The Pacific faces a rapidly evolving security environment. Foreign partners increasingly compete for comprehensive partnerships, engagements, coordination and influence. Security risks are also evolving, with a greater emphasis on climate- and...
Small island nations provide big environmental solutions but need finance partners (commentary)
Mongabay
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July 15, 2025
Small island nations offer the world powerful environmental solutions — from “blue” climate finance innovations to marine conservation — but they need the international community to match their ambition with fairness and support. Antigua and...
Pacific Nations Cup 2025 closes with champions crowned
Samoa News
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July 14, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Tennis Association (ASTA) proudly announces the successful conclusion of the 2025 Pacific Nations Cup, hosted from June 30 to July 5, with final matches played on July 6 after weather-related delays....