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Making Moves – Jan/Feb 2025
Guam Business Magazine
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February 4, 2025
Promotions and career moves by the people you know — and those you should Blesam Roxanne Siual Blesam, has been appointed CEO of Palau International Coral Reef Center. She was previously chief of staff to Vice President and minister of justice for...
Amazon Prime Video Statistics – Users, Usage, Revenue and Facts
Hollywood Gazette
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August 10, 2024
Amazon Prime Video Statistics – Users, Usage, Revenue and Facts August 4, 2024 — Introduction Amazon Prime video statistics: As entertainment, people around the world prefer movies and TV shows with easy access. Since the pandemic, people prefer...
A Radioactive Sublime?
The New York Review of Books
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January 30, 2025
Eighty years on, the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—known as the hibakusha—still shoulder a unique suffering: they endured the explosions and have lived through the long aftermath with radiation forever scorching inside them. Last December...
No fireworks in Syriza leadership candidates’ debate
Kathimerini
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The four candidates for the leadership of left-wing Syriza took part Wednesday in a debate largely devoid of drama on state TV ERT. Sokratis Famellos, Nikolas Farantouris, Apostolos Gletsos and Pavlos Polakis presented their positions, which were...
Australian Public Diplomacy and a National Rugby League Team in Papua New Guinea
The Diplomat
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October 11, 2024
The 2024 Olympics in Paris demonstrated the continuing importance of sports events as an aspect of public diplomacy and soft power. France used the event to reflect the French commitment to diversity and equality while demonstrating its continued...
'Ambitious' islanders spice up ICJ climate hearings; plus global south rep interview
TerraDaily
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'Ambitious' islanders spice up ICJ climate hearings; plus global south rep interview By Richard CARTER The Hague (AFP) Dec 13, 2024 Young people from small island states -- the driving force behind the climate change hearings at the International...
OPINION: Trump should explore multi-level hierarchal configuration for US diplomatic posture in Pacific Islands
Pacific Daily News
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Today, the Trump administration will be inheriting an inconsistent, inefficient, and incomplete diplomatic posture in the Pacific Islands region. The Biden administration may have expanded the diplomatic footprint. But, it did so half-heartedly....
On the trail of Tarik Kerbouci, the elusive French drug baron
Le Monde
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A short, six-minute choreography, performed between 7:43 and 7:49 am, barely disturbed the great morning ballet of trucks and cranes at the port of Marseille, on the French Mediterranean coast. On February 27, 2020, amidst the hustle and bustle of...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – Jan. 17–23, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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January 23, 2025
Political Leadership, Regionalism, Peace and Security Samoa PM addresses parliament amid political turmoil (RNZ) Tongan King officially appoints new Prime Minister (PMN) Vanuatu faces possible return to all-male parliament after snap election...
Capital Clean Energy Carriers Corp. (CCEC) Anounces Completion of Corporate Conversion, Name Change and Nasdaq Ticker
To Vima
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August 26, 2024
Capital Clean Energy Carriers Corp. (NASDAQ: CCEC), an international owner of ocean-going vessels, on Monday announced a conversion from a Marshall Islands limited partnership previously named “Capital Product Partners L.P.” to a Marshall Islands...
Department of Posts hosts TANAPEX 2025 in Chennai
The Hindu
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January 29, 2025
After a gap of nearly seven years, the Department of Posts inaugurated TANAPEX 2025, the 14th State level philatelic exhibition in Chennai on Wednesday. The four-day exhibition will showcase everything from traditional philately, special covers,...
Sāmoan lifter will have the last dance for the Pacific
Pacific Media Network
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Team Pacific's hopes of a second medal at the Paris Olympics lie with Sāmoan weightlifter Iuniarra Sipaia. This is after three lifters from the region - Vanuatu's Ajah Pritchard-Lolo, Sāmoa's Don Opeloge, and Marshall Islands' Mathlynn "Mattie"...
Samantha Harvey: “Orbital isn’t the kind of book that normally wins the Booker”
New Statesman
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November 13, 2024
When art goes to space, it normally goes looking for either adventure or truth. In other words, for every George Lucas or Ridley Scott, there for the thrusters and lasers, you have your Stanley Kubrick or Christopher Nolan, using the cosmic vacuum...
Soccer in Nauru – One Year On
Football in Oceania
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January 24, 2025
When Nauru launched its ambitious soccer program in 2024, it seemed like a bold step for the tiny island nation. By Gareth Johnson The year began with a media frenzy, driven by the appointment of former Premier League star Dave Kitson as a key...
Can You Guess the Largest Empires in World History?
24/7 Wall St.
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January 26, 2025
Politics Roke~commonswiki / wikimedia commons An empire is any powerful country with a huge territory under its rule of law, overseeing multiple types of peoples within its massive population. An empire almost always consists of a range of ethnic...
COLUMN: ‘News of Our Boys in the Armed Forces’ – January 18, 1945
The Andalusia Star-News - Alabama
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January 24, 2025
Published 11:00 am Friday, January 24, 2025 Andrew F. Straughn, PFC, U.S. Marine Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.I. Straughn, Rt. 2, Andalusia, has been promoted from Private. He is serving with a unit of the Ninth Marine Aircraft Wing which is...
“Manufactured chaos”: Trump 2.0 puts his stamp on US foreign aid
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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January 29, 2025
BY Cameron Hill Among the more than two dozen executive orders issued by President Donald Trump during his first day in office was an order to pause US development assistance for 90 days to undertake an “assessment of programmatic efficiencies and...
Pacific Islands Association of Libraries, Archives, and Museums holds successful 33rd annual conference on Guam
Marianas Variety
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The 2024 PIALA group photo at the Guam Museum in Hagåtña, Guam. JKPL photo Team JKPL with Guam Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero at the 33rd Annual PIALA Conference in Hagåtña, Guam. JKPL photo (PIALA) — The Pacific Islands Association of Libraries,...
All the massive cruise ships visiting Plymouth in 2025
Plymouth Herald
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January 26, 2025
Plymouth is set to receive a dozen visits from cruise ships this year. Ten separate vessels will dock at Britain’s Ocean City between March and September. The list includes the return of the luxurious Ambition, and such eye-catchers as Spirit of...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – Dec. 20-Jan. 9, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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January 9, 2025
Political Leadership, Regionalism, Peace and Security Dr ‘Aisake Eke is Tonga’s new prime minister (PMN) Alcide Ponga is New Caledonia’s new president (PMN) New leaders of American Samoa sworn in (Samoa Observer) New Zealand rejects Cook Islands...