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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Uncertainty around compensation payments for the HMNZS Manawanui marine disaster in Samoa is growing, with the paramount chief of one of the affected villages questioning whether money from the New Zealand government should be distributed at all.
Atanoa Tusi Fa'afetai,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Metals Company spoke out recently saying at the dawn of the deep-sea nodule collection industry nearly fifty years ago, U.S. companies tested a range of nodule-collection technologies. These early pioneers understood the challenges, and their choices reflected the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa is set to become the third Pacific nation to have an embassy in Jerusalem.
Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Polataivao Schmidt told a gathering of the Sāmoa branch of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem on Tuesday he'd instructed the country's Ministry of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Moeaia Tuai will be sentenced next month for enslaving a young woman in New Zealand who he forced to work and sexually abused. Two victims broke free from the Auckland man's control in harrowing echoes of New Zealand's most infamous slavery trial, but such prosecutions...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — During a webinar hosted by Right to Democracy and the America the Beautiful for All Coalition, civil society organizations from Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands announced they and their national partners collected over 60,000 petitions, letters, and comments in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Nearly seven months after police say Matthew Scott Alder fatally shot Arthur “Afa” Folasa Ah Loo at a Salt Lake City “No Kings” protest, Alder made his first court appearance.
Alder, a safety volunteer at the march, attended a hearing Tuesday morning at Utah’s Third...
Washington, D.C.— (Jan 8, 2026) The United States has confirmed it will withdraw from, or cease funding and participation in, a number of international organizations following a presidential review of bodies deemed contrary to U.S. national interests.
Among those affected are several institutions...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An inmate who escaped from custody in Palau last month has been recaptured.
The Minister of Justice told local media investigations are underway into how the escape happened, and whether others were involved.
The Island Times reported the incident has renewed public...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — When people stop taking the new generation of weight-loss drugs they pile back on the weight four times faster than they would after ending diet and exercise regimes, new research has found.
But this was mostly because they lost so much weight in the first place,...
Apia, SAMOA (05 January, 2026) — Another U.S.-funded initiative aimed at strengthening education in the Independent State of Samoa is set to be officially handed over in the near future, marking a continued commitment to supporting students, schools, and communities across the nation.
The...