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Kazakhstan’s Legacy, Global Voices Mark International Day Against Nuclear Tests
The Astana Times
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August 29, 2025
ASTANA — Aug. 29, designated as the International Day Against Nuclear Tests, carries special weight in Kazakhstan, where the Soviet Union once detonated more than 450 bombs at the Semipalatinsk test site. Born from Kazakhstan’s initiative at the...
Taiwan president praises tech ties during Hawaii visit
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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December 2, 2024
1/2 Swipe or click to see more MARCO GARCIA / REUTERS Taiwan President Lai Ching-te and East-West Center President Suzanne Vares-Lum exchange gifts on Sunday at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. 2/2 Swipe or click to see more MARCO GARCIA /...
Challenging Future For Children In 2050 Transformed By Extreme Climate Crises, Population Shifts, And Tech Disparities
Scoop
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Saturday, 30 November 2024, 11:07 pm Press Release: UNICEF NEW YORK/SUVA, 20 November 2024 – The future of childhood hangs in the balance if urgent action is not taken to safeguard children’s rights in a changing world, UNICEF warned in its...
The entanglement of fusion energy research and bombs
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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The recent achievement of fusion ignition—meaning more energy came out of a self-sustaining fusion reaction than was put in—at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) has brought to the fore long-simmering...
New World Bank Research Outlines Adaptation Pathways For Pacific Atoll Countries
Scoop
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Thursday, 14 November 2024, 6:13 pm Press Release: World Bank SYDNEY, November 14, 2024 — Climate change is endangering ecosystems, economies, and livelihoods in Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, and Tuvalu, in which the highest points are only...
New Research Finds Children In Asia-Pacific Suffer Mentally And Physically Due To Climate Change
Scoop
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Monday, 18 November 2024, 10:15 am Press Release: World Vision New child-led research canvassing the views of more than 2,500 children and young people in the Asia-Pacific region highlights the worsening impact of climate change on their lives....
Farewell to Iroojlaplap Christopher Jorebon Loeak
Marshall Islands Journal
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August 14, 2025
FLOYD K. TAKEUCHI Christopher Jorebon Loeak, a former president of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and an Iroojlaplap, died on the afternoon of August 8 in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he had been under medical care. He was 72. Loeak served as the...
Drowning nations: Kiribati and the South Pacific’s fight for survival
Irish Examiner
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August 29, 2025
When the tide comes in on Tarawa, the capital of Kiribati, it often spills straight into people’s homes. Saltwater seeps into wells, flooding gardens where staple crops like taro once thrived. Families wake to waves crashing closer and closer to...
Pacific Islands focus: health, environmental, security and geopolitical updates
Croakey Health Media
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August 28, 2025
Calls to tackle violence against women in the Pacific region, efforts to alleviate the impacts of extreme heat, new guidelines to assist in protection of whales, and concerns about deep sea mining are among the topics covered in the latest edition...
Regional Research Agenda researchers convene to investigate findings
Pacific Community (SPC)
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Photo credit: ACIAR The Regional Research Agenda Framework (RRA) identifies common forestry and agriculture development challenges in the Pacific region, establishes research partnerships and defines research strategies to overcome these...
Global Engineering Consultants Royal HaskoningDHV Expands APAC Operations
Scoop
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Monday, 11 November 2024, 11:29 am Press Release: Neon Black Image/Supplied Leading provider of maritime engineering, resilience and adaptation management services, Royal HaskoningDHV, is pleased to announce the official establishment of its New...
RMI sea mounts studied
Marshall Islands Journal
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August 13, 2025
The Ocean Exploration Trust (OET)’s exploration vessel Nautilus started its exploration of deep-sea habitats throughout the Marshall Islands in collaboration with the Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority and other partners earlier this...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – August 22 – August 28, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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August 29, 2025
Editor’s Note: We are undergoing a web host migration process and may need to make necessary modifications to our format and frequency over the next several weeks. Thank you in advance for your understanding. Political Leadership and Regionalism,...
On 29 August, the International Day against Nuclear Tests, WILPF calls for the end of nuclear weapons
Pressenza
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August 29, 2025
The International Day against Nuclear Tests Is the Time to Stop the Bomb Ray Acheson In 1945, the United States built and detonated the first nuclear weapon in the deserts of New Mexico. The fallout from that explosion spread to 46 US states,...
Bermudian scientist retires from London museum
The Royal Gazette
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November 5, 2024
Jill Darrell is spending her first few weeks post-retirement at her family’s home in Spanish Point (Photograph by Akil Simmons) A Bermudian scientist who dedicated most of her life to studying fossils has been celebrated after she stepped down...
Operation Island Chief reinforces Pacific unity against illegal fishing
Island Times
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August 29, 2025
HONIARA (FFA)—The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) has concluded Operation Island Chief 2025 (OPIC25), part of its ongoing programme of surveillance and monitoring operations to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing...
The Digital Shift: Redefining Insurance with Smarter Payments
Banking Dive
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Pirates Scared Off from Tanker Attack by Approaching Togolese Patrol Boat
The Maritime Executive
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The suspected attack on a small chemical tanker off the coast of Togo in West Africa is over, with the crew reported to be safe and AIS signals showing the vessel underway. The incident took place approximately 60 nautical miles south of Lome,...
Can You Trust AI on Puerto Rico?
PR51st
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August 29, 2025
Increasingly, online searches give you answers generated by large language models — AI answers, in fact. many people also choose to go directly to ChatGPT or Perspicacity to ask their questions instead of starting at Google. It’s fast and easy to...
Refugees could lose SNAP benefits any day. Then health care will go away
The Beacon - Missouri
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August 29, 2025
For refugees, asylees and other immigrants who have sought safety in the United States, government food assistance could go away any day. Health care benefits will soon follow. After President Donald Trump’s signature legislation passed in July...