The president of the autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville says recent flare-ups of gun-related violence are unacceptable. Ishmael Toroama was commenting after a gun fight in the middle ...

France's top diplomat in the region says talks around the "unfreezing" of New Caledonia's highly controversial electoral roll ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

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Professor Richard Jackson of Otago University said Donald Trump added a whole new wildcard to global security.

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More than 12,000 people have signed petitions opposing McCallum Brothers’ plans to mine sand off-shore from Bream Bay for the next 35 years. Natalie Jessup from the Endangered Species Foundation said ...

The novel is a work of historical fiction by Robert Dugoni, written in partnership with academic researchers Jeff Langholz and Chris Crabtree.

C. S. Lewis's beloved 1950 novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe—part of his Chronicles of Narnia book series—was turned ...

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