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A pigeons sits by a window mesh inside the house of a Kashmiri pigeon handler in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, June 17, 2022. The centuries-old tradition of pigeon keeping has remained ingrained to life in the old quarters of Srinagar where flocks of pigeons on rooftops, in the courtyards of mosques and shrines and around marketplaces are a common sight. Many of these are domesticated, raised by one of the thousands of pigeon keepers there. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Researchers working in Papua New Guinea find bird unseen by scientists since 1882

The Washington Times

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, right, locks arms with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Honiara, Solomon Islands on May 26, 2022. A U.S. coast guard cutter conducting patrols as part of an international mission to prevent illegal fishing was recently unable to get clearance for a scheduled port call in the Solomon Islands, according to reports, an incident that comes amid growing concerns of Chinese influence on the Pacific nation. (Xinhua via AP, File)

Report: U.S. Coast Guard ship denied port call in Solomons

By David Rising - Associated Press

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Morrison said Australian government is ramping up its COVID-19 vaccination support for Papua New Guinea in a bid to contain a concerning wave of infections in a near-neighbor. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

Australia gives COVID-19 shots to virus-hit Papua New Guinea

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2010, file photo, Michael Somare, Prime then Minister of Papua New Guinea addresses the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters. Somare, a pivotal figure in Papua New Guinea’s independence and the South Pacific island nation's first prime minister, has died. He was 84. He died Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, after being diagnosed with a late-stage pancreatic cancer and admitted to a hospital on Feb. 19, his daughter Betha Somare said. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Michael Somare, Papua New Guinea’s 1st prime minister, dies

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - This undated electron microscope file image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. A Chinese mining company in Papua New Guinea claims to have immunized employees against COVID-19 in an apparent vaccination trial, a newspaper reported on Friday., Aug. 21, 2020. A document on company letterhead entitled “Vaccination Statement” said 48 Chinese employees “have been vaccinated with SARS-COV-2 vaccine” on Aug. 10. (NIAID-RML via AP, File)

PNG demands China explain COVID-19 vaccine trial on miners

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Quake hits remote part of Papua New Guinea; no casualties

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Refugee’s overstay in New Zealand could fuel Aussie tensions

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

Vote counting starts in Bougainville independence ballot

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2019, file photo, the Upe members vote at a men-only voting booth in the Bougainville referendum in Teau, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. The South Pacific region of Bougainville has voted for independence from Papua New Guinea. The referendum is nonbinding, and independence would need to be negotiated between leaders from Bougainville and Papua New Guinea. (Jeremy Miller, Bougainville Referendum Commission via AP, File)

Bougainville votes for independence from Papua New Guinea

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

In this Nov. 29, 2019, photo, the Upe members wait to vote in the Bougainville referendum in Teau, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. All across the Pacific region of Bougainville, people have been voting in a historic referendum to decide if they want to become the world’s newest nation by gaining independence from Papua New Guinea. (Jeremy Miller, Bougainville Referendum Commission via AP)

Regular voting ends as Bougainville considers independence

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

In this April 2018, photo released by United Nations Development Programme, women in the village of Aero, Central Bougainville, come together for a unification ceremony. The Pacific people of Bougainville will on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019, begin voting in a historic referendum to decide if they want to become the world’s newest nation by gaining independence from Papua New Guinea. The referendum will run over two weeks and is a key part of a 2001 peace agreement that ended a brutal civil war in at least 15,000 people died in the cluster of islands to the east of the Papua New Guinea mainland. (Nick Turner/UNDP via AP)

Bougainville vote could help create world’s newest nation

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

FIFA bans official for cash conflicts at youth World Cup

Associated Press

Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape, second from left, shakes hands with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, watched by their respective wives Rachael Marape, left, and Jenny Morrison after signing the visitors' book at Australia's Parliament House in Canberra Monday, July 22, 2019. Marape says his country's relationship with China in not open to discussion during his current visit to Australia. (AP Photograph/Rod McGuirk)

Papua New Guinea open to Chinese and Australian investors

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2018, file photo, a girl runs towards their home at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. More than 20 people including pregnant women and children have been killed in recent tribal violence in Papua New Guinea, media reported on Wednesday, July 10, 2019. The death toll and dates of the violence in the remote highland province of Hela varied in reports by Australian Broadcasting Corp. and the Post-Courier newspaper. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

More than 20 killed in Papua New Guinea tribal violence

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Powerful quake rattles Papua New Guinea, no injury reports

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

Damage minimal from quake in Papua New Guinea

Associated Press

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is seen inside a high care accommodation room as he tours North West Point Detention Centre on Christmas Island, Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Morrison says asylum seekers who are allowed to leave Pacific island migrant camps to get medical treatment in Australia will be sent to a prison-like facility on a remote island. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

Australia to send refugee medical transfers to remote island

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - This Sept. 4, 2018, file photo shows Nibok refugee settlement on Nauru. Australia announced on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019 that the last child refugees held on the Pacific atoll of Nauru will soon the sent to the United States, ending the banishment of children under the government's harsh asylum-seeker policy as elections loom. (Jason Oxenham/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Australia says last child refugees to leave Nauru camp

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Security personnel on the back of a truck wait to be paid at Rita Flynn Netball Centre in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018.. Opposition lawmaker Bryan Kramer said disgruntled police and prison guards stormed Papua New Guinea’s Parliament in a pay dispute that stemmed from an international summit hosted by the South Pacific island nation last weekend. (Jam Morales via AP)

Police storm Papua New Guinea Parliament for APEC summit pay

By CIARAN McQUILLAN - Associated Press

From left, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence shake hands during the Leaders Electrification Project meeting as part of the APEC 2018 at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea on Sunday, Nov. 18, 2018. In a statement issued to media, Papua New Guinea has invited Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the United States to work together to support its enhanced connectivity and the goal of connecting 70% of its population to electricity by 2030. Currently only about 13% of Papua New Guinea's population have reliable access to electricity. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Acrimonious Pacific summit underscores China-US tensions

By STEPHEN WRIGHT - Associated Press