French South Pacific territory narrowly rejects independence in a referendum, with the 'no' camp bagging 53.26 percent and the 'yes' camp receiving 46.7 percent of votes.
Around 1.2 million Japanese soldiers, who died overseas during Tokyo’s military rampage across Asia in the early 20th century, are believed to be scattered across remote islands in the South Pacific, in northern China, Mongolia and Russia.
Cyclone Harold, its strength ranked in the highest category of five, passed over Fiji's south at about midday, levelling homes and snapping communications links in the archipelago, which has adopted curbs on movement to rein in the virus.
Tropical Cyclone Harold, which claimed 27 lives when it swept through the Solomon Islands last week, lashed Vanuatu's northern provinces overnight as a scale-topping category five superstorm.
The attacks on mosques in New Zealand made it impossible to deny the threat from right-wing terrorism.
The Fiji National Disaster Management Office said one person was in intensive care and more than 2,500 people had moved to 70 evacuation centers.
A spate of anti-racism protests has reinvigorated calls for political self-determination in West Papua, a region colonised by Indonesia for over half a century.
Both Chile and Argentina were situated under the narrow, 6,000-mile long band of Earth that experienced the eclipse.
Shirtless at the Rio summer Olympics in 2016, the 34-year-old Taufatofua from Tonga is a hit in South Korea having trained on roller skates to qualify for the cross country skiing.
New Caledonia's civil security agency made no plans to evacuate coastal places immediately.
About 450 asylum seekers are still barricaded inside an abandoned Australian-run detention centre in Papua New Guinea.
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare loses a vote of no-confidence following a marathon debate.
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