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Opera Australia Hires Andrea Battistoni as New Music Director
The Violin Channel
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August 19, 2025
After an extensive international search, Opera Australia (OA) has welcomed Andrea Battistoni as its new music director from 2026. Battistoni has worked regularly with the organization over the past seven years — his conducting credits with the...
The battle for the islands: the last great fight of WW2
Daily Express
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August 20, 2025
ON August 12, 1942, five days after the 19,000-strong 1st Marine Division had landed unopposed on Guadalcanal in the British Solomon Islands, the first American ground offensive of the war, Sergeant Jim McEnery came upon the aftermath of a...
Preview: ‘Denshattack!’ turns train riding into a Tony Hawk-style adventure
The Mercury News - California
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August 19, 2025
On long trips, the landscape outside becomes a playground for the imagination. Mountains look like slumbering dinosaurs. The distance between street lights take on a rhythm. For game developer David Jaumandreau, he saw the potential for a...
Global treaty talks crumble after nations remain divided on critical subject: 'Missed a historic opportunity'
The Cool Down - Oregon
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August 15, 2025
Once high hopes for an international treaty governing plastic production and waste have come crashing down as countries failed yet again to reach an agreement during recent talks in Geneva, Switzerland, the BBC reported. Despite extending...
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I’ve Lived in Italy for Over 40 Years—These Are the Most Beautiful Islands No One Talks About
Travel + Leisure
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Everyone's heard of Sicily, Sardinia, and fashionable Capri, but when it comes to enchanting islands, Italy has much more to offer than the usual headline acts. And few people realize that the country's coastline is actually peppered with over 350...
Pacific Resilience Facility set for leaders signing in Honiara
Pacific News Service
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By Sanjeshni Kumar The Pacific Resilience Facility (PRF) is poised to become the region’s first Pacific-owned and led international financial institution, with Forum Leaders set to sign its establishing treaty at their meeting in Honiara, Solomon...
I’ve lived in Italy for 40-plus years — these are the most beautiful islands no one talks about
AOL
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Balate Dorin/Getty Images Forio village on Ischia.Everyone's heard of Sicily, Sardinia, and fashionable Capri, but when it comes to enchanting islands, Italy has much more to offer than the usual headline acts. And few people realize that the...
LETTER: On colonization, loss of self-determination
Pacific Daily News
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CHamoru people of Guam, Hawaiians, Māori of New Zealand, and other Pacific Island cultures have suffered significant loss of self-determination and autonomy due to colonization and external control. Before contact, the CHamoru had established...
Scientists put a dead cow on the deep ocean floor and filmed something very unexpected
Earth.com
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Eight Pacific sleeper sharks showed up for dinner when researchers dropped a cow carcass to the seafloor of the South China Sea at 5,344 feet (1,629 meters) near Hainan Island. The visit offered a rare observation of how these deep residents feed,...
The Trump administration’s assault on science feels eerily Soviet
Grist Magazine
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August 15, 2025
In the fall of 1925, agronomist Trofim Lysenko arrived on the dusty plains of what is now Azerbaijan, hoping to keep cows from starving to death over the winter. The young scientist, who learned to read as a teenager during the Russian Revolution,...
Tourist Attractions in Valencia
PlanetWare
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Written by Lisa Alexander Updated Aug 13, 2025 In a dreamy seaside setting, this balmy Mediterranean port town lives up to the local saying "a piece of heaven fallen to earth." Under the warm rays of the southern sun, Valencia's palm-fringed...
Tuvalu considers pulling out of Pacific leaders’ summit amid China-linked power…
Pacific News Service
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Tuvalu’s prime minister Feleti Teo said his country may pull out of the region’s top political meeting next month, after host nation Solomon Islands moved to block all external partners – including China, U.S and Taiwan – from attending. The...
Samoa Women’s Official Squad for Rugby World Cup 2025
Samoa Global News
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August 16, 2025
15 August 2025, Apia, Samoa – Lakapi Samoa is proud to unveil the official Manusina squad selected to represent Samoa at the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup in England. The 32-strong team unites local and overseas talent, combining power, speed, and...
Friends to all: What a friend wants, what a Pacific island country needs
The Strategist
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August 18, 2025
Patrol boats, infrastructure, training and other security supports given to Pacific island countries aren’t entirely gifts. The givers are hoping for something in return, even if they don’t say so. Many partners seek to provide support and...
Scientists Create New Magnetic State: The Magneto-Ionic Vortex (“Vortion”)
SciTechDaily
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August 17, 2025
A new magnetic state, the vortion, has been experimentally realized by manipulating ions with voltage at the nanoscale. This discovery opens the door to low-energy data storage and brain-inspired technologies with unprecedented control of...
Not acceptable: Pacific Small Island Developing States on new Plastic draft…
Pacific News Service
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With just 30 hours left before the close of the resumed fifth session of negotiations for a global plastics treaty, Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) have expressed deep disappointment over a new draft text they say fails the very...
Tuvalu considers pulling out of Pacific leaders’ summit
Taipei Times
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August 16, 2025
Tuvaluan Prime Minister Feletei Teo said his country might pull out of the region’s top political meeting next month, after host nation Solomon Islands moved to block all external partners — including China, the US and Taiwan — from attending. The...
Rova hits milestone
The Fiji Times
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August 18, 2025
National swimming representative Cheyenne Rova has been elected to the World Aquatics Athletes Committee. Rova was one of 44 candidates standing for 20 elected positions during the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore recently. She was one of...
US Sides with Nauru on Deep-Sea Mining, Splitting Pacific Leaders
Island Times
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August 15, 2025
By: Bernadette Carreon NAURU – The United States has thrown its weight behind Nauru’s push to fast-track deep-sea mining, backing a Canadian partner’s bid despite warnings from other Pacific nations about risks to fragile ocean ecosystems. The...
Pacific Ministers arrive in Geneva for final push on global Plastics treaty
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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August 13, 2025
First published by SPREP Pacific Ministers began their day with a high-level Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) briefing at Palais des Nations, Geneva, joining heads of delegations from the membership’s 39 small island developing states. Over...