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Samoa's Court of Appeal has voided the challenge of an HRPP women's candidate that she was wrongly removed as an MP; An independent journalist in Vanuatu says the new criminal defamation law is a ill-considered legislative overstep that will have negative human rights implications in the long-term; Niue's first delivery of Covid-19 vaccines has arrived. The small number of innoculations is being used to vaccinate the vaccinators and other key people.

Papua New Guinea's former prime minister, Peter O'Neill, was arrested on Saturday. Where do the corruption charges stem from, and how do they affect the current government? With more than 800 people laid off at Fiji Airways, calls are growing louder for a Pacific travel bubble with Australia and New Zealand. Niue's public broadcaster is scrambling to get back on air for election week, after a fire gutted its studios. An artificial intelligent agent named 'Tala' may open the door on a new way of gathering feedback from New Zealand's Samoan community.

The family of a murdered Papua New Guinea policeman demand government rein in the lawlessness in Hela Province; A new report in Solomon Islands reveals the severe pressures women face when dealing with an unwanted pregnancy; New Zealand real estate consumer protection information is now being made available in some Pacific languages; Niue's first commonwealth games medalist has just arrived back in New Zealand after his first ever trip to the country he represented.