A Court of Appeal decision today may pave the way for the FAST Party to assume control of the Samoan government.

Fiji police will not comment on a video that claims to be an eyewitness account of a fight on a fishing ship leading to the death of a crew member, and others jumping overboard.

Twelve people have been arrested over an alleged terrorist plot to attack an archbishop and police stations in the Indonesian province of Papua, local police officials said.

The Catholic Archbishop in Samoa has lashed out at the country's HRPP party, saying the country is sliding into dictatorship.

Ongoing disruption to internet services in the conflict-torn Papua region has created a media blind spot that one local warns could cover up troop movements, fighting and human rights abuses.

There is a new woman MP for the Cook Islands, efforts to vaccinate Pacific people in Wellington continue, and a new representative for Spain in Tonga.

Allegations of theft have been made by Bougainville's vice president, who is investigating missing payments from a bank to government accounts.

New Caledonia will hold another independence referendum in December, according to reports in French media.

Vanuatu's Supreme Court will sit on Wednesday morning to hear an urgent application from the government, which wants to remove parliament's speaker.

The first delivery of the Covid-19 vaccine has arrived on Niue, raising the prospect of a travel bubble with New Zealand.

Free satellite connections into remote parts of Papua New Guinea's Western Province are helping the fight against Covid-19.

At least 10 doctors at a private medical facility in Fiji are in quarantine after a colleague tested positive for Covid-19.

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Samoa's head of state has called for reconciliation and forgiveness, in a bid to end the country's political deadlock.

Vanuatu's opposition has filed a motion of no confidence against the government of prime minister Bob Loughman.

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Fiji's main opposition party has called on the Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum to "step down" amid allegations against him.

The outgoing head of the Pacific Islands Forum has decried how the region is increasingly defined by the interests of external powers.