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There are 177 nationalities in Tasmania. This duo wants to talk to them all
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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June 13, 2025
Podcaster Mark Thomson has put a call out to anyone from Belarus who is living in Tasmania to contact him. Anyone from El Salvador, Zambia, and Laos too. It may seem a novel request, but along with friend and photographer Andrew Wilson, he's set...
Ranked: The 50 Richest Countries by GDP Per Capita in 2025
Visual Capitalist
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June 13, 2025
See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization Ranked: The 50 Richest Countries by GDP Per Capita in 2025 This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible...
Resolution demanding immediate Gaza ceasefire adopted by UNGA
Madhyamam
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June 13, 2025
United Nations: In an Emergency Special Session, the General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza as well as rapid access to large-scale humanitarian assistance. The resolution, voted on Thursday, calls for "an...
Pacific Mini Games to Unite Region through sports and sister state partnerships
Island Times
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June 13, 2025
KOROR, Palau – Palau is preparing to host its largest-ever regional event, the 22nd Pacific Mini Games, with more than 2,000 athletes confirmed to participate—making it the most attended Mini Games in over a decade. Two thousand eighty-five...
Using AI for Scalable, Accelerated Fraud Detection in Financial Services
Banking Dive
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'We show up': Pacific leaders apply pressure at oceans summit
Barron News Shield - Wisconsin
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Nowhere is humanity's exploitation of the oceans more starkly illustrated than the Pacific Ocean, where small island nations are fighting to outlast a crisis not of their making. The islands are besieged by rising seas and worsening storms, their...
Pacific news in brief for 12 June
RNZ
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June 11, 2025
Dr 'Aisake Eke. 27 January 2025 Photo: Facebook / PM Press Tonga - visas Tonga Prime Minister ʻAisake Eke hopes a new Tongan consulate in Fiji will ease visa processing delays. Talanoa O Tonga reported the consulate is set to be opened in January....
UN Oceans Summit: Fiji mobilising resources to protect vital marine ecosystems, says govt
Pacific Media Network
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Fiji is joining its Pacific neighbours at the UN Oceans Conference in France, urging the mobilisation of resources to protect its marine resources. The theme for the conference is to accelerate action and mobilise all stakeholders to conserve and...
Launch of CanScreen5 training in the Asia–Pacific region
IARC
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June 3, 2025
3 June 2025 Researchers at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) launched a new Cancer Screening in Five Continents (CanScreen5) Training of Trainers learning programme for countries in the Asia–Pacific Region during a webinar on...
UN adopts resolution demanding immediate Gaza ceasefire
Daily Finland
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The General Assembly, at an Emergency Special Session, adopted a resolution on Thursday that demands an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and immediate access to humanitarian assistance at scale, reported Xinhua. The resolution demands "an immediate,...
Cook Islands announces protection zone for migrating Oceania humpback whales
RNZ
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June 12, 2025
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown arrives at Tuurangawaewae Marae Photo: Layla Bailey-McDowell / RNZ Cook Islands prime minister Mark Brown has announced the creation of a zone to protect the migratory corridors of the endangered Oceania...
UN General Assembly adopts resolution demanding immediate Gaza ceasefire
Xinhua News Agency
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UNITED NATIONS, June 12 (Xinhua) -- The General Assembly, at an Emergency Special Session, adopted a resolution on Thursday that demands an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and immediate access to humanitarian assistance at scale. The resolution...
Under pressure: pessimism ahead of session of Seabed Authority
Cosmos
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June 11, 2025
The International Seabed Authority continues the 30th session meetings at the end of this month, meeting in various sessions almost every day until a full Assembly in Kingston, Jamaica, from 21 to 25 July. The provisional agenda of the Assembly...
Council’s call for fossil fuel treaty branded a ‘pointless gesture’
Knutsford Guardian
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The environment and communities committee voted by seven to five in favour of formally endorsing the call for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty that would plan the end of new fossil fuel exploration and expansion and phase out existing...
Taiwan has 12 diplomatic partners left. Who’ll drop it next?
The Strategist
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June 12, 2025
Beneath Taiwan’s high-profile fight for global recognition lies a parallel contest in capitals scattered across the Caribbean and the Pacific. This is Beijing’s relentless campaign to isolate Taiwan diplomatically—country by country—until Taipei...
Mirror worlds: Can digital twins save humanity?
Cosmos
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June 4, 2025
We are taking a look back at stories from Cosmos Magazine in print. This article by Prianka Srinivasan was published in June 2024. In the physical realm, Tuvalu is under threat. The Pacific nation, made up of nine atolls dotting a 676-kilometre...
Ocean Summit Wake-Up Call on Plastics Treaty 'Only Matters If Countries Back It Up With Action'
Common Dreams
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June 11, 2025
Nearly 100 countries at the United Nations Ocean Conference on Tuesday issued a joint declaration demanding a bold global plastics treaty ahead of the next round of negotiations—a call that civil society groups welcomed, while also stressing that...
Scaling Smarter: How a Modern Tech Stack Fuels Diagnostic Lab Growth
BioPharma Dive
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18 New Countries Ratify High Seas Treaty at 2025 UN Ocean Conference
EcoWatch
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June 10, 2025
Humpback whales and a flock of birds off the coast of Massachusetts on Feb. 1, 2015. Eric Kulin / Design Pics Editorial / Universal Images Group via Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper,...
UNOC opportunity for nations to ensure protection, sustainable use of ocean
The Hans India
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June 10, 2025
Nice (France): With five years left to meet the world's "30 by 30" conservation goal and an urgent need to improve the management of marine ecosystems, the underway 2025 UN Ocean Conference (UNOC) presents an opportunity for governments to make...