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Inside smoky shelters, a fast-paced, illegal card game has taken off in Solomon Islands https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/18/inside-smoky-shelters-a-fast-paced-card-game-has-taken-off-in-solomon-islands #PacificIslands #SolomonIslands #AsiaPacific #WorldNews #Gambling #Society
Inside smoky shelters, a fast-paced, illegal card game has taken off in Solomon Islands

Growing numbers in the capital Honiara are playing the street card game Pass for a chance of a big payout, while risking big losses

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World news | The GuardianApr 13
Weather tracker: Super Typhoon Sinlaku threatens Mariana Islands https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/13/weather-tracker-super-typhoon-sinlaku-threatens-mariana-islands #Environment #ExtremeWeather #Micronesia #Guam #NewZealand #PapuaNewGuinea #WorldNews #PacificIslands #AsiaPacific
Weather tracker: Super Typhoon Sinlaku threatens Mariana Islands

Rapidly strengthening storm brings destructive winds, flooding risk and dangerous seas to western Pacific

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World news | The GuardianApr 10
Weather tracker: Cyclone Maila batters Solomon Islands with 115mph winds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/10/weather-tracker-cyclone-maila-solomon-islands #SolomonIslands #WorldNews #PacificIslands #Environment #AsiaPacific #SouthKorea #Vietnam
Weather tracker: Cyclone Maila batters Solomon Islands with 115mph winds

Powerful storm brings destruction, while temperatures soar in Vietnam and torrential rain lashes South Korea

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World news | The GuardianApr 8
Tropical Cyclone Vaianu may bring life-threatening winds to New Zealand, forecasters warn https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/08/tropical-cyclone-vaianu-forecast-path-track-fiji-new-zealand #NewZealand #AsiaPacific #WorldNews #ExtremeWeather #PacificIslands
Tropical Cyclone Vaianu may bring life-threatening winds to New Zealand, forecasters warn

Category 3 cyclone is moving south of Fiji towards New Zealand, with winds at centre in excess of 150km/h

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World news | The GuardianApr 8
New Zealand asks US to send fuel tankers to Pacific to alleviate pressure caused by Iran war https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/08/new-zealand-us-fuel-tankers-pacific-iran-war #NewZealand #UsisraelWarOnIran #AsiaPacific #WorldNews #MarcoRubio #WinstonPeters #Oil #EnergyIndustry #PacificIslands #UsNews #Business #Iran
New Zealand asks US to send fuel tankers to Pacific to alleviate pressure caused by Iran war

After meeting with Marco Rubio, foreign minister Winston Peters says he made sure US understands ‘significant economic impacts on New Zealand and Pacific’

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Climate crisis | The GuardianApr 7
World held hostage by reliance on fossil fuels, Christiana Figueres warns – and climate health impacts are ‘mother of all injustices’ https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/apr/08/world-held-hostage-reliance-fossil-fuels-health-christiana-figueres #Health #Health #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevel #Environment #ChristianaFigueres #FossilFuels #InternationalLaw #PacificIslands #Tuvalu #AsiaPacific #Pollution #InternationalCourtOfJustice #UnitedNations #Science #...
World held hostage by reliance on fossil fuels, Christiana Figueres warns – and climate health impacts are ‘mother of all injustices’

Former UN climate chief to co-chair Lancet Commission examining how sea-level rise is reshaping health, wellbeing and inequality

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Opinion | The Guardian USApr 7
Sea-level rise is a health crisis and we must hold polluters accountable | Christiana Figueres https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/07/sea-level-rise-health-crisis-christiana-figueres #SeaLevel #Health #PacificIslands #Pollution #Vanuatu #EnvironmentalActivism #FossilFuels #Water #Migration #IndigenousPeoples #Inequality #InternationalLaw #ClimateCrisis #AsiaPacific #Environment #SouthPacific
Sea-level rise is a health crisis and we must hold polluters accountable

Those facing the earliest and harshest consequences are, overwhelmingly, those who did the least to create them

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Anthropology.netApr 3
A small island off northern Fiji is made almost entirely of ancient shellfish remains — possibly built by centuries of human refuse, meal by discarded meal. New research asks: midden or tsunami deposit? #Archaeology #PacificIslands #Zooarchaeologyhttps://www.anthropology.net/p/an-island-built-from-dinner
World news | The GuardianApr 3
A day in the life of Asia’s fuel crisis https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/03/asia-fuel-crisis-iran-war-ordinary-workers #UsisraelWarOnIran #Oil #OilAndGasCompanies #Commodities #EnergyIndustry #CostOfLivingCrisis #WorldNews #Business #NewZealand #India #Vanuatu #SouthKorea #Thailand #Japan #AustraliaNews #China #AsiaPacific #PacificIslands #SouthAndCentralAsia #SouthPacific
A day in the life of Asia’s fuel crisis

From farms in New Zealand to factories in Delhi, the effects of the oil crisis triggered by the Iran war are rippling across Asia

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World news | The GuardianApr 2
New Zealand signs defence pact with Cook Islands after quarrel over China deal https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/02/new-zealand-cook-islands-defense #NewZealand #CookIslands #AsiaPacific #PacificIslands #China #WorldNews #WinstonPeters
New Zealand signs defence pact with Cook Islands after quarrel over China deal

Agreement comes after Wellington halted millions in aid to its former colony after Cook Islands formed strategic partnership with Beijing

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