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Oceania

Fears over the Chinese navy holding live-fire drills on Friday in international waters between Australia and New Zealand resulted in commercial flight diversion, as China reportedly warned an Emirates plane to avoid the airspace.

Chinese Warship Drill Near Australia Diverts Flights

Australia, New Zealand Monitor Chinese Warships Near Sydney

Australia Cuts Rates For First Time in 4 Years

Aboriginal Group Seeks $1.15B From Western Australia

Nurses Suspended in Australia Over Anti-Israel Video Threats

Australia

Australia's parliament Thursday passed sweeping new hate crime laws that mandate minimum prison sentences for various offenses, including 12 months for displaying Nazi symbols or performing Nazi salutes, three years for financing terrorism, and six years for terror acts.

Australia Enacts Mandatory Jail Terms for Nazi Salutes

Scientists Create IVF Kangaroo Embryo for the First Time

Ex-Spanish Soccer Chief on Trial Over World Cup Kiss

Australia Bans Chinese AI DeepSeek From Government Devices

Captain Cook Statue Vandalized as Australia Day is Observed

New Zealand

New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has expressed "significant concern" as the Cook Islands' Prime Minister Mark Brown prepares to travel to Beijing to sign a comprehensive strategic partnership deal with China.

New Zealand Raises 'Concern' Over Cook Islands-China Deal

New Zealand Eases Visa Rules for Remote Workers

New Zealand Police Officer Killed in New Year's Day Car Ramming

New Zealand Overhauls Work Visa Rules to Ease Labor Shortages

New Zealand Opposes Cook Islands' Plan for Separate Passport

Micronesia

The Biden administration Tuesday in separate notices submitted three significant agreements to Congress in an attempt to strengthen relations in the Indo-Pacific and lessen Chinese influence in the region prior to Pres.-elect Donald Trump being sworn in Jan. 20.

Biden Bolsters Indo-Pacific Ties in Final Days of Presidency

UN: Australia Violated Refugee Rights in Nauru Detention Center

Pacific Island Nations Submit ICC 'Ecocide' Proposal

Australia Signs Security Deal With Nauru

North Korea Tests New Alleged Hypersonic Missile

Polynesia

Tongan lawmakers elected Aisake Valu Eke as prime minister-designate in a special sitting on Tuesday, two weeks after his predecessor, Siaosi Sovaleni, stepped down.

Tonga Elects New Prime Minister

Kenya: Man Sentenced to Prison for Murder of LGBTQ+ Activist

UK: Charles III Discusses "Painful Past" at Commonwealth Meeting

Tonga's Prime Minister Quits Ahead of No-Confidence Vote

King Charles III Visits Australia

Melanesia

An international research team that analyzed eight years of humpback whale recordings from New Caledonia has discovered that whale songs follow the concept of "Zipfian distribution" — a statistical pattern previously thought unique to human languages.

Study: Whale Songs Share Language Patterns with Humans

Powerful Earthquake Rattles Vanuatu, Damages US Embassy

World's Largest Coral Found Near Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands PM Faces No-Confidence Vote

Papua New Guinea: Gang Kills at Least 26 in Village Ambush

Antarctica

A new study published last week in Nature Communications has claimed that the snow-covered area of the Juneau Icefield, which extends from Canada's British Columbia into southeast Alaska, is melting at an "incredibly worrying" rate.

Study: Alaska's Juneau Icefield Losing 50K Gallons Per Second

Study: Arctic Could Be 'Ice-Free' in a Decade

Norway Parliament Approves World's First Commercial Deep Sea Mining

Study: 2023's Record Heat Behind 'Astounding' Ocean Temperatures

Study: Earth Nearing Five Climate Tipping Points