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The Rainbow Warrior bombing 40 years on: re-energizing for global peace
The Pacific Island Times
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July 10, 2025
French Pacific Regiment troops at a Bastille Day parade in Nouméa, New Caledonia, 1985. Photo by David Robie The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on July 10, 1985, with the death of Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira, was a terrible tragedy....
Trump administration holding immigrants from 26 countries at Guantánamo prison
The Independent
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July 9, 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...
Albanese government faces backlash for failing to lock in climate talks
WAtoday
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July 10, 2025
“We saw it with the UN Security Council bid when Labor was last tilting at a major multilateral endeavour, and we saw this under the LNP when they were trying to secure [former Liberal finance minister] Mathias Cormann’s job as [as secretary...
Japan risks its reputation in Oceania with Fukushima discharge
Pacific News Service
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A rollcall of Pacific Island nations have very different views on the release of treated radioactive wastewater. By Derek Grossman Japan’s decision last month to begin discharging treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean from its...
Rainbow Warrior bombing remembered 40 years on
Te Ao Maori News
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July 10, 2025
Forty years ago, French agents bombed the Rainbow Warrior in an attempt to stop Greenpeace’s protest against nuclear testing at Moruroa Atoll in Mā’ohi Nui. People gathered aboard Rainbow Warrior III to remember photographer Fernando Pereira, who...
Australia Obstructed Probe Into Deadly ‘Rainbow Warrior’ Bombing
Consortium News
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July 10, 2025
Forty years later, David Robie, the only journalist on board the Greenpeace ship in the weeks leading up to its bombing on July 10, 1985, looks back on this act of French state terrorism in a New Zealand port. The Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior...
USAID Cuts Could Transform U.S. Ties to Pacific Islands
Foreign Policy
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July 8, 2025
In February, the ambassadors to the United States of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau met with U.S. officials to raise concerns about the rush of executive actions since U.S. President Donald Trump took office...
The Rainbow Warrior 1985-2025 | Part 2: Nuclear Refugees In The Pacific - The Evacuation Of Rongelap
Scoop
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On the last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior prior to its sinking by French agents in Auckland harbour on 10 July 1985 the ship had evacuated the entire population (320) of Rongelap in the Marshall Islands. After conducting dozens of above-ground...
The Rainbow Warrior saga. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific – the evacuation of Rongelap
Asia Pacific Report
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July 6, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle On the last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior prior to its sinking by French secret agents in Auckland harbour on 10 July 1985 the ship had evacuated the entire population of 320 from Rongelap in the Marshall Islands. After...
Rainbow Warrior bombing 40th anniversary: Advocates warn of expanding nuclearism in Pacific
RNZ
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July 9, 2025
The Rainbow Warrior was bombed in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand, in July 1985. Photo: Greenpeace / John Miller As Thursday marks 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, anti-nuclear advocates warn the Pacific region is facing expanding...
Renewed calls for Ballyarnett investment in Derry as search for Amelia Earhart makes global headlines
Derry Journal
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July 9, 2025
As the search for Amelia Earhart continues to make headlines a man who lives metres from where she completed her historic transatlantic flight in Derry in 1932 has renewed calls for greater investment in the area. Davy Cregan and the Ballyarnett...
Australia's climate visa: A model for sinking islands?
Deutsche Welle
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July 9, 2025
In the tiny South Pacific nation of just over 10,000 people, one in three citizens has already entered the ballot for a world-first climate visa which would allow them to permanently migrate to Australia. Tuvalu is classified as being extremely...
Scholarship winners spend week at Space Camp
The Redstone Rocket - Alabama
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Twenty young adventurers begin a journey to explore the future in the Rocket City. The students, recipients of an Air, Space, and Missile Defense Association scholarship, spent June 29-July 4 at Space Camp at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. On...
The Real Impact of a Nuclear Bomb
The Cipher Brief
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July 8, 2025
FINE PRINT / OPINION — “This report explores the environmental effects and societal and economic consequences that would be expected to follow in the weeks-to-decades after a nuclear war. The exploration begins…with the consideration of four...
Amelia Earhart’s missing plane found
Euro Weekly News
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July 7, 2025
Aviation Pioneer Amelia Earharts wreckage may have been found Photo credits: Longines Nearly 88 years after pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific, researchers are preparing a new expedition that could finally solve one of the...
The Quest for Earhart’s Plane
WOWO 1190 AM - Indiana
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July 7, 2025
West Lafayette, IN (WOWO) – The Purdue Research Foundation believes they might have a positive lead on how to find Amelia Earhart’s lost plane. On July 2, 1937, Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first female...
Ocean Explorers map and maritime archaeology at Iron Bottom Sound
Solomon Star
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July 8, 2025
Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII in the Pacific, Dr. Robert Ballard leads a team aboard E/V Nautilus exploring the shipwrecks of Guadalcanal. The Ocean Exploration Trust (OET)’s exploration vessel (E/V) Nautilus is underway on its...
The escalating risk environment requires more than empty words
The Guam Daily Post
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The security environment in our region is changing and the risk to Guam is increasing. U.S. presence, once seen as a deterrent, now makes Guam a target. As the environment changes and the risk to Guam escalates, more candor is required about the...
Hands-on livestock training held at Kumoi Farms
Marianas Variety
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THE CNMI Department of Lands and Natural Resources, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, and Australia’s Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry or ADAFF are training residents of Guam, Palau, and the CNMI in animal husbandry and...
A top court has urged nations to clamp down on fossil fuel production. When will Australia finally start listening?
The Conversation
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July 7, 2025
As Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen tours the Pacific this week to spruik his government’s commitment to climate action, fossil fuel exporters such as Australia are under unprecedented scrutiny. In a landmark ruling on Friday, Latin...