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Samoa is facing another day of political uncertainty after the caretaker prime minister rejected the swearing in of the head of the majority FAST party.

Samoa's FAST Party is expecting to face another day locked out of Parliament today and is also predicting a long year ahead to resolve the country's constitutional crisis. Audio

The majority FAST party in Samoa has described the caretaker government's actions this morning in locking it out of parliament in Apia as tantamount to a coup.

Analysis - Fiame Naomi Mata'afa from Samoa's election-winning FAST party has been named the country's first female Prime Minister, in an ad-hoc ceremony her rival called "treason".

A search and rescue operation to find five missing fishermen who jumped from their boat after an alleged beheading off Fiji is in its final day. Audio

Samoa's constitutional crisis deepened on Monday morning with the party that commands the majority of seats locked out of parliament, but still insisting it can form a government today.

Covid-19 may have forced the cancellation of New Zealand's Pacific Dance Festival last year, but it will be back next month.

A high-level New Caledonian delegation has flown to Paris at the invitation of the French prime minister Jean Castex as the third and last independence referendum looms under the terms of the Noumea…