The Samoa Supreme Court has declared the Assembly motion, purporting to suspend Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi and Lealailepule Rimoni Aiafi, is void.

Pro-independence leader Roch Wamytan has been re-elected President of the Congress of New Caledonia.

The Kiribati Government says it's gravely concerned the Court of Appeal has backed a ruling by Chief Justice Bill Hastings stopping the removal of High Court judge David Lambourne.

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The President of the New Caledonian Congress Roch Wamytan says a visit with French representatives will take place on September 12.

Former Fiji leader of the opposition and Indo-Fijian judge and political trailblazer Jai Ram Reddy has died.

The new MP for Rai Coast Open in Papua New Guinea's Madang Province Kessy Sawang wants immediate action to curb violence that has been occurring in her district for years.

The Solomon Islands government's foreign policy 'friends to all, enemies to none is hypocrisy at its worst' according to the Solomon Islands opposition leader.

A strategy meeting of the pro-independence Caledonian Union has been told that France must give a firm and irreversible date for New Caledonia's sovereignty.

The trial of a disbarred and retired medical doctor in French Polynesia has been deferred for a fifth time.

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The first official celebration of the New Zealand government's apology for the Dawn Raids was an emotional affair at the Orakei Marae complex.

Commemorations are underway at Ōrākei marae in Auckland for the one-year anniversary of the Dawn Raids apology.

The president of New Caledonia's Congress Roch Wamytan is set to be re-elected for another one-year term after the party holding the balance of power said it would again vote for him next week.

Opinion - Independent film-maker and academic Paul Wolffram* analyses the concept of sorcery in Papua New Guinea and its complexities alongside the emergence of Sanguma.

The Autonomous Bougainville Government has rejected a call from the Papua New Guinea Government for a nationwide consultation on the independence referendum.

One charge against the Northern Marianas' Governor Ralph Torres has been dismissed by the Superior Court in the ongoing criminal suit filed against him.

United States-based medical doctors have praised the Marshall Islands for an "unprecedented" response to its first covid outbreak, as the positive case numbers declined dramatically this week after a record-setting first two weeks.