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A round-up of news in brief from around the region.

President Joe Biden met Pacific island leaders for a second White House summit in just over a year on Monday, part of a charm offensive aimed at curbing further inroads by China.

Waka Kotahi is hoping a South Island flood-damaged highway will be able to partly reopen, while Cook Strait ferries have been cancelled and heavy rain warnings are out for Bay of Plenty and Gisborne /… Audio

A round-up of news in brief from around the region.

US President Joe Biden will host a second summit with leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum at the White House on Monday, part of his efforts to step up engagement with a region.

The Sheraton hotel almost bankrupted the Cook Islands. It has a past of failed renovation attempts, rumours of Italian Mafia involvement and is supposedly cursed.

Much of the country faces severe weather warnings as the weekend - and the school holiday - begins. For regions already struck by rain and snow, clean-ups are underway.

There were notable absences from the speaker line up at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Climate Ambition Summit in New York, including the US, UK and Australia.

Vaima'anga's abandoned hotel in the Cook Islands is being done up and is expecting its first guests in a couple of months. Audio

With Southland under a state of emergency, a remote town's water treatment plant has stopped working, leaving eight hours' drinking water in the reservoir.

Deep-sea mining could be a boon for the economy of the Cook Islands but environmental groups are concerned over a new batch of exploration licenses.

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Deep-sea mining companies in the Cook Islands have been exploring the country's ocean to see if they can extract potato-sized nodules packed full of minerals kilometres deep. Audio