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Visa-Free Countries For UAE Residents in 2025
Times of Dubai
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September 8, 2025
15Dubai, September 8, 2025- Residents of the UAE enjoy freedom of spectacular travel in 2025 with visa-free access to many countries worldwide. Keeping a UAE residence visa opens the doors of more than 140 countries, where no visas are required,...
From Fashion Runways to Runaway Excuses: Michael Mausio’s $10K Pilgrimage Dream Turns Into a $10M Blame Game. If 170+ passengers paid $10,000 each, that’s over $1.8 million collected. Where's the money?
Fiji Leaks
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September 8, 2025
Michael Mausio has broken his silence on Facebook, posting an emotional defence of his failed Fiji–Israel charter flight project. Semi Tukana and others have reproduced it on their own Facebook sites. What Mausio frames as a visionary plan to turn...
The best Royal Caribbean cruises for 2025 and beyond
The Independent
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September 8, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
One $785 payslip in 14 months: The life of Australia's 'country liaison officers'
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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September 8, 2025
The mental strain kept building with every month Rosa Muller Norman went unpaid. The 73-year-old from Darwin was working as a country liaison officer for the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme — an Australian government-backed...
What would you do with the money?
Starts at 60
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September 8, 2025
Each winner must now choose between a tidy US$893.5 million annuity check that grows every year like a mutating fungus, or a US$410.3 million lump sum that will still have the tax man rubbing his hands together like he’s just invented chocolate....
US launches largest multilateral exercise hosted in Sri Lanka this year
Colombo Gazette
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September 8, 2025
The United States, on Monday, launched PACIFIC ANGEL (Pac Angel) 25, the largest multilateral exercise hosted in Sri Lanka this year. U.S. Defense Attaché Lt. Col. Matthew House joined Sri Lanka Air Force leaders to open the exercise at the...
Police and ABF seize $1.5m of steroids and arrest 17 people as part of 'black market' bust
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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September 5, 2025
Authorities have made 17 arrests and seized $1.5 million worth of steroids as part of a six-month investigation into an alleged "national black market". Since February, police and Australian Border Force (ABF) officials have been investigating...
Clarity in the face of death brings unexpected joy
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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September 5, 2025
Hilary Webster did not expect she would enjoy the last weeks of her life. But after receiving a devastating diagnosis in July, she's making the most of every day. About six weeks ago, the 68-year-old was diagnosed with an aggressive primary...
Do We Need a Pacific Peace Index?
Inter Press Service
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September 8, 2025
Armed Conflicts, Asia-Pacific, Climate Action, Climate Change, Crime & Justice, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Environment, Global Geopolitics, Headlines, Indigenous Rights, Peace, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations...
China and Australia in a high-speed race to win control of the Pacific
The Sydney Morning Herald
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September 8, 2025
The very islands that a hostile Imperial Japanese Army occupied to cut off Australia’s economic and military lifelines in WWII were falling under the influence of China. Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare with Chinese Premier Li...
The Pacific’s united front on climate action is splintering over deep-sea mining
Samoa News
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September 8, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In recent years, Pacific island nations have earned global credibility as champions of climate action. Pacific leaders view sea level rise as an existential threat. But this united front is now under strain as some...
Accelerating Value in Insurance with AI: From Experimentation to Realized Enterprise Value
Banking Dive
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Pacific leaders meet to discuss security, climate
Taipei Times
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September 8, 2025
Pacific Islands leaders began a week-long summit yesterday in the Solomon Islands, where they are expected to endorse an “Ocean of Peace” declaration amid concern over rising tensions between the US and China. The leaders are also expected to back...
Fiji set to host ICC Women’s T20 WC East-Asia Pacific qualifier
The Statesman (India)
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September 8, 2025
The East-Asia Pacific region is poised for a historic moment in women’s cricket as Fiji prepares to host the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 East-Asia Pacific (EAP) Qualifier, beginning on Tuesday at Albert Park in Suva. Apart from Fiji, the Cook...
Climate Justice after the ICJ: Authority, Diffusion, and State Responsibility
E-International Relations
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September 7, 2025
The International Court of Justice (ICJ)’s advisory opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change marks a constitutional moment for global climate governance. Requested by a UN General Assembly resolution that was spearheaded by...
Coles abandons plan to stop selling caged eggs by end of year
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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September 5, 2025
Caged eggs will remain on supermarket shelves until 2030 as supply challenges and cost-of-living pressures continue. Coles, Woolworths and Aldi promised to phase out or ban eggs from battery cage farms this year because of animal welfare concerns....
Neo-Nazi leader denied bail over Camp Sovereignty attack
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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September 4, 2025
Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell has been denied bail over charges linked to an attack on a First Nations camp in Melbourne over the weekend. Sewell faced court on Wednesday and was remanded in custody after police argued he was too dangerous to be...
Fiji Set To Host Landmark ICC Women's T20 World Cup East-Asia Pacific Qualifier
MENAFN
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September 8, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) Suva, Sep 8 (IANS) The East-Asia Pacific region is poised for a historic moment in women's cricket as Fiji prepares to host the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2026 East-Asia Pacific (EAP) Qualifier, beginning on Tuesday at Albert Park....
Security, Climate Change Top Agenda At Pacific Islands Leaders’ Summit
StratNews Global
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September 8, 2025
Home Indo-Pacific Security, Climate Change Top Agenda At Pacific Islands Leaders’ Summit The largest forum member, Australia, is the region's biggest aid donor and has stepped up efforts to block China from expanding its security presence in the...
AFL PNG academy squads set for Pacific Nations Challenge
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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September 8, 2025
The AFL PNG Academy is in the final stages of its training camp as its Under-17 male Binatangs and female Kurakums squads prepare to fly to Cairns, Australia, on Thursday for the 2025 Pacific Nations Challenge. The three-day tournament will run...