Samoa journalist surrenders passport after defamation charges lodged
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Samoa Observer is reporting that the president of the Journalist Association of Samoa, appeared in the Samoa District Court Tuesday morning (Samoa time) to


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