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Biden to make landmark visit to Papua New Guinea

Port Moresby (AFP) - Joe Biden is set to become the first sitting US president in at least a century to visit Papua New Guinea, Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko said Thursday, revealing plans for a brief but symbolic trip.

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Biden to make historic visit to Papua New Guinea next month - PNG officials

U.S. President Joe Biden will briefly visit Papua New Guinea (PNG) on May 22, officials from the Pacific island nation said on Thursday, as Washington seeks to counter growing Chinese influence in the strategically important region.

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US President Joe Biden to visit Papua New Guinea on his way to Australia

On his way to Australia for the Quad meeting in Sydney next month, United States President Joe Biden could make a historic visit to Port Moresby as the US intensifies its diplomatic push across the Pacific.

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'Everybody should know what it was like', 98-year-old Joan says

Joan Wilmore's late husband, Harry, was one of the original Rats of Tobruk.

Newcastle Herald

Australia Says Discovery of WW2 Shipwreck Ends ‘Tragic’ Maritime Chapter

Australia's Defense Minister Richard Marles said on Saturday that the wreck of a Japanese merchant ship, sunk in World War Two with 864 Australian soldiers on board, had been found in the South China Sea, ending a tragic chapter of the country's history. Marles said the SS Montevideo Maru, an…

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‘Otherworldly’ hybrid solar eclipse reaches totality over Australia – as it happened

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Tributes flow for SA father and veteran Paul Miller who died during Kokoda Track walk

South Australian man Paul Miller, who died during a fundraising walk along the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea, is being remembered as a much-loved veteran and father who was a "mate to many".

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Australian man dies trekking on PNG’s Kokoda Track

A 48-year-old Australian man has died while trekking on Papua New Guinea's Kokoda Track.

The New Daily

Australian man dies while hiking Kokoda Track

The Australian government is providing assistance to the family of a 48-year-old Australian man who died while hiking the popular but gruelling trail in Papua New Guinea.

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'Bird poo' frog among five new species classified in Papua New Guinea

New Guinea has the most diverse array of tropical island frogs in the world and its mountains and forests are still revealing their secrets. Here are five newly classified species.

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Bank South Pacific customers in PNG told to repay money after glitch allows accounts to be overdrawn over Easter

A "technical issue" has allowed some customers with Papua New Guinea's largest bank to overdraw money from their accounts, while others have watched their bank balances drop.

ABC News

Thargomindah mates train in Queensland's outback for Kokoda Track

Arid south-west Queensland is a long way from the jungle-covered mountains of the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea, but that's no deterrent for these outback mates.

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Four dead and 300 homes destroyed by earthquake in Papua New Guinea

Magnitude 7.0 quake hits remote region to cause deep fissures in land near epicentre at Chambri Lake

Wales Online

At least four dead, hundreds of homes destroyed in Papua New Guinea quake

At least four people have been killed and hundreds of houses destroyed in a remote area of northern Papua New Guinea, an official said on Tuesday, a day after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake.

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3 dead as powerful earthquake strikes Papua New Guinea

At least three people were killed after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake shook a remote region of northwestern Papua New Guinea before dawn Monday.

AFP

Three dead as powerful earthquake strikes PNG

Sydney (AFP) - At least three people were killed after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake shook a remote region of northwestern Papua New Guinea before dawn Monday.

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Papua New Guinea East Sepik province hit by 7.1 magnitude earthquake, four dead

A magnitude-7.1 earthquake rocks Papua New Guinea's East Sepik province.

The Conversation

We provided health care for children in immigration detention. This is what we found

Australia’s immigration policies allow for indefinite locked detention, including for children and families. Detention is mandatory for people arriving without a valid visa – all those who arrived by boat between 2009 and 2013 were held in Immigration Detention Centres in Australia, or in Australian-contracted detention in Nauru or Papua…

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Aussies help PNG women get life-saving cancer treatment

Thousands of Papua New Guinean women will have access to cervical cancer screening under a program supported by an Australian philanthropist group.

Newcastle Herald

Hunter students illuminate the future for kids living in energy poverty

Students at Hunter Sports High School have helped illuminate the futures of kids living in energy poverty in Papua New Guinea.

The Guardian - US

Harvard physicist plans expedition to find ‘alien artefact’ that fell from space

Avi Loeb organizing $1.5m search to Papua New Guinea to look for interstellar object that crashed into ocean in 2014

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Five men charged after 52kg of meth found on 'black flight' from PNG to Australia

Five men are charged after allegedly trying to fly 52kg of methamphetamine from Papua New Guinea to Australia on a plane that couldn't be tracked on radars.

AAP

Five accused of PNG black flight meth importation

Authorities have arrested five men after a light plane on-route to NSW from Papua New Guinea was intercepted, allegedly loaded with methamphetamine.

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Thousands of Papua New Guineans caught up in Golden Sun movie review 'pyramid scheme'

Thousands of Papua New Guineans fall victim to a scheme that promises money in return for reviews of 15-second blockbuster movie clips.

AAP

NRL open to expansion in 2025, PNG a legitimate option

The NRL has given the greatest indication yet a Pasifika side based largely out of Papua New Guinea could be a legitimate expansion chance for 2025.

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