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FIBA 3x3 Youth Nations League - Oceania Conference 1, Stop 4: Fiji Flex Their Muscle
FIBA Basketball
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KOROR (Palau) - Fiji dominated the competition at Stop 4 of the FIBA 3x3 Youth Nations League – Oceania, Conference 1. Both the women’s and the men’s competition saw heightened levels of energy and physicality out of the break, which played to the...
Major boost for upcoming 10km race
The Fiji Times
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July 19, 2025
A FRESH boost of support has been secured for one of Suva’s biggest running events, with the Motibhai Group stepping in as the official sponsor of the 10-kilometre race at this year’s Suva Marathon. At the signing event at the group’s head office...
Guam's baseball team advances to gold medal game at Pacific Mini Games
Pacific Daily News
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Guam’s men’s baseball team is back in the gold medal game at the Pacific Mini Games after handling the Federated States of Micronesia, 10-6, Saturday afternoon in Palau. Guam's medal tally as of Sunday noon was nine, including two gold, three...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – July 11 – July 17, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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July 18, 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,...
Lady Gaga's Mayhem Ball tour: Here's where to see her
AZ Central - Arizona
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Lady Gaga launched her Mayhem Ball tour July 16, 2025, at T-Mobile Arena near Las Vegas. The tour promotes "Mayhem," her fifth straight No. 1 album and its hit single "Die With a Smile." Gaga chose arenas over stadiums to create a more intimate...
Lady Gaga kicks off ‘The MAYHEM Ball’ in Las Vegas – see the setlist
Entertainment Focus
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July 18, 2025
Lady Gaga kicked off her ‘The MAYHEM Ball Tour' last night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The set list for the night mixed songs from new album ‘MAYHEM' along with fan favourites from across her expansive catalogue. Produced by Lady Gaga and...
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CFO Dive
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Lady Gaga brings her signature arthouse theatrics to the stage as she kicks off her Mayhem Ball tour in Las Vegas with extravagant costumes and eye-popping choreography
Daily Mail
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July 17, 2025
Lady Gaga gave her fans a night to remember on Wednesday, as she kicked off her Mayhem Ball tour with an electric show at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The pop icon, 39, brought back the arthouse theatrics for the two hours and 15 minute set,...
Why Hair Perfume Isn’t To Be Sniffed At – Plus 9 Of The Best For Summer
Grazia
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One scroll through #PerfumeTok confirms it- hair perfume is having its moment in the spotlight. Once seen as a niche luxury at best - or a frivolous extra at worst- owning a hair fragrance today marks a new kind of status symbol. For the beauty...
Four in five Tuvaluans apply to move to Australia. Frayzel is among them
WAtoday
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July 18, 2025
Minister for Pacific Island Affairs Pat Conroy said: “The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty is the first agreement of its kind anywhere in the world and the most significant Pacific policy this country has undertaken in the last 50 years.” A...
Here’s what Lady Gaga played as she kicked off ‘MAYHEM Ball’ tour in Las Vegas
NME
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July 17, 2025
Lady Gaga has kicked off the ‘MAYHEM Ball’ tour in Las Vegas – check out everything she played below. The popstar launched her huge ‘MAYHEM Ball’ tour at the T-Mobile Arena last night (July 16), where she hosted a characteristically dramatic show....
Billy’s voice and drums fall silent
The National
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TRIBUTE Gwadu Band’s versatile drummer passes on PORT Moresby Show used to feature a ‘battle of the bands.’ (Yes, there had been a Port Moresby Show in the decades after independence.) At one such battle, it came down to a contest between two of...
Armed Clashes Between PDF Groups in Yaw Region
MoeMaKa
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July 19, 2025
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – July 17 Perspective MoeMaKa, July 18, 2025 Armed Clashes Between PDF Groups in Yaw Region On July 15, in Tilin Township, northern Magway Region, an incident occurred in which members of the PDF group “Generation Z Army...
Kapetalwa: A Cruiser’s Journey Through the Blue Frontier
Cruising World
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July 16, 2025
Sailing canoes ply the lagoon waters off Lamotrek Island. These vessels sail hundreds of miles in open ocean between islands. Behan Gifford Come to our canoe house, and we’ll have kapetalwa. We’re being invited, but in Micronesia, kapetalwa can...
Seen but never welcomed, the Bajau Laut of Semporna continue to lose out in tourism boom
Malay Mail
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July 17, 2025
SEMPORNA, July 17 — On the sparkling waters off Sabah’s east coast, tourism is thriving as nearly 2,000 mostly Chinese tourists and divers flock to the picturesque islands around Semporna every day for the insta-worthy white sand beaches, water...
We Found Cheap Lady Gaga Tickets to Her Sold-Out Tour, But They Won’t Last Long
Stylecaster - New York
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July 15, 2025
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Myanmar Junta’s Air War Against Civilians Kills Eight in Two Days
The Irrawaddy
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July 15, 2025
Junta airstrikes caused 35 civilian casualties—eight deaths and 27 injuries—in a 48-hour period earlier this week as the Myanmar military regime continued its strategy of attacking civilian targets in resistance-held territories. Airstrikes were...
Column: COFA alliances key amid Pacific tension
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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July 16, 2025
Scholars at the East-West Center, military officials in Hawaii and journalists covering the Pacific know a political tsunami can happen at anytime. It could be as dramatic as a Chinese attack on Taiwan, or as modest as a slow-motion seismic shift...
Working for coral survival
Marshall Islands Journal
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July 16, 2025
The Marshall Islands Conservation Society (MICS) has launched a coral heat-tolerance testing initiative and established two coral nurseries as part of the efforts to support reef restoration in the Marshall Islands. This initiative is part of a...
Brazilian science and technology on Filipino plates: A recipe for agricultural development
Philstar
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July 16, 2025
Contrary to what some may assume, Brazil did not become a major food producer by chance or good fortune alone. Instead, this achievement was built upon decades of rigorous scientific research, technological innovation and strategic investments....