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Sinking Tuvalu fights to keep maritime boundaries amid sea rise
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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September 24, 2024
FONGAFALE, Tuvalu >> Tuvalu and its 11,000 people, who live on nine atolls scattered across the Pacific, are running out of time. Fukanoe Laafai would like to start a family. But she is struggling to reconcile her plans with rising sea levels that...
How Many Subscribers Does Apple TV Have in 2024?
Hollywood Gazette
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September 4, 2024
How Many Subscribers Does Apple TV Have in 2024? August 29, 2024 Quick Answer 🔍 How many subscribers does Apple TV have in 2024? Apple TV has 25 million paid subscribers. How many subscribers does Apple TV have? In recent years, streaming...
The Art Scene 09.12.24
The East Hampton Star - New York
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In 1955, a woman of exceptional taste peruses the artwork at Ashawagh Hall. Art Barge at Ashawagh In 1955, Victor D'Amico, the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art's education department, began holding summer art classes and shows of...
2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow: Which sports will take place, who will compete & will Celtic Park and Ibrox be used?
The Scottish Sun
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September 17, 2024
THE Commonwealth Games are coming back to Glasgow. After an incredible Games back in 2014, Scotland's biggest city is once again stepping up to the mark to take over as hosts for the next edition in 2026. 11 Glasgow will be hosting the 2026...
Warming oceans drive tuna from Pacific islands
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Men use nets to move tuna from a fishing vessel to a refrigerated container ship in the lagoon of Funafuti, Tuvalu’s capital. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post) FUNAFUTI, Tuvalu - Kauaka Petaia guided his motorboat out of Tuvalu’s main...
Better dotTV deal for Tuvalu
Pacific News Service
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By Dionisia Tabureguci Tuvalu’s revenue share from the management of its dotTV Internet domain name asset will now be based on the number of people purchasing the namespace instead of an annual flat fee. The new deal has been described as a...
NFT Statistics 2024 By Top Marketplaces, Collectors, Country, Gender, Art Segment, Traffic Source AND Website Traffic
Hollywood Gazette
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August 31, 2024
NFT challenges include issues related to copyright, intellectual property rights, ownership rights, privacy and data protection laws, money laundering, security issues, risk of fraud, and taxation aspects. NFTs benefit collectors by enabling new...
Fiji Airways Remains Tuvalu’s Only Airline Service
Fiji Sun
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August 19, 2024
The second-least populous country behind the Vatican, Tuvalu has a total land area of just 10 square miles and a permanent population of 10,600 people. Fiji Airways is the sole carrier serving tiny South Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu. Fiji...
Amid GAY airport row, a look at other unusual codes across the world
Hindustan Times
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August 6, 2025
On August 5, A BJP MP took exception to the airport code of Gaya International Airport. The code ‘GAY’ was “socially and culturally” offensive, according to Bhim Singh who sought that the government change it to a “more respectful and culturally...
Cities of the World: Around the globe in 282 artworks
The Irish Times
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Because my family seldom throw things away, we still have a copy of the Certificate Atlas for Irish Schools from 1980. It shows a number of countries that no longer exist. Alongside the vast pink mass of the USSR, and hugging the eastern end of...
Refurbished bikes might save your profit margin – or business – this year
BikeBiz
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June 16, 2025
In the current economic climate, how do retailers win new customers and generate regular business? In the second of a series of features with BikeBiz, Phillip M Lucas shares insights into the potential value of refurbished bike sales for bike...
Spotify: The Ultimate Guide
Android Headlines
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July 24, 2025
Believe it or not, Spotify was one of the first streaming music services that offered more than just a personalized radio service, like Pandora. It actually launched in 2008, ahead of YouTube Music (or Google Play Music), Apple Music, Amazon...
India's IT fix for climate refugees could be the upgrade its global image needs
Mint
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July 24, 2025
Australia has started the world’s first special visa programme for climate refugees, beginning with Tuvalu—one of the South Pacific islands most at risk of submergence due to rising sea levels caused by global warming and melting polar ice caps....
Climate crisis to legal battles
New Age Bangladesh
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| IUCN IN A quiet courtroom in the Hague, history stirred. A legal ripple, as gentle as a sigh from the Pacific, reached the shorelines of global governance. The International Court of Justice declared, in an advisory fashion though, that one...
The Red Tape Around .in: Why New Rule Could Shrink India’s Internet
BOOMLive
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August 4, 2025
If you’ve ever typed a website address into your browser, you’ve used a domain. Just like every country has its own dialing code, it also has its own domain extension—India’s is .in. These domains are used by businesses, individuals, and...
PNG delegation participates in Garma Festival in Australia
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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August 4, 2025
Two Bougainvillean parliamentarians were recently invited to attend Australia’s largest Indigenous cultural festival as part of a Pacific delegation. The Garma Festival in East Arnhem Land was attended by Minister Geraldine Paul, Minister for...
Royal Tonga Police Force Band crowned winners at Inaugural Pacific Police Tattoo
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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July 22, 2025
The Royal Tonga Police Force Band has taken home the coveted Overall Performance award at the inaugural Pacific Police Tattoo, a vibrant musical celebration held today at Sir Hubert Murray Stadium in Port Moresby. The event, supported by the...
Where do you go when your country begins to sink?
Conde Nast Traveller
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July 3, 2025
Tuvalu has become the first nation to secure what many are calling a climate survival pact. Under the Falepili Union treaty, each year, Australia will offer up to 280 citizens of the Pacific island nation the right to live, study, work, and settle...
Frozen out: Greenland kicks off football's shortest season after international setback
Euronews
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July 29, 2025
Published on 29/07/2025 - 17:54 GMT+2 •Updated 18:02 Against a backdrop of continuous sunlight and cold Arctic winds, the shortest season in football — lasting only one week — has just kicked off on the world's biggest island. The 54th Greenlandic...
A legal tipping point on climate
The Ecologist
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July 29, 2025
Not only does this provide powerful support to the case for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty which seeks to draw a line under new exploration and production by the industry, it is a very small step from this to similar implications for...