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A round-up of news from around the region, including the death toll from a West Papua disaster rising.

However, a spokesperson for the sport's governing body says consultation with players and representatives did take place.

This comes after the president of the Journalists Association of Samoa and veteran Samoan journalist was charged under the Crimes Act on Sunday.

Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa says the geopolitical landscape in the Pacific "is becoming very contested".

This comes after the association's president, a veteran Samoan journalist Lagi Keresoma, was charged by police for defamation under the law on Sunday.

Biman Prasad has been accused of meeting with the regional university's "divisive" vice-chancellor at his home, raising concerns about a "conflict of interest".

Penny Wong embarks on a major visit to Fiji, Tonga, and Vanuatu following Labor's recent election victory.

New Caledonia and French Polynesia are both in the UN's list of non-self-governing territories to be decolonised, respectively since 1986 and 2013.

Ardie Savea has every right to say 'I told you so' after turning Moana Pasifika from pretenders to contenders.

The judge ruled that the actions against the six-year-old were "acts of a depraved mind".

A round-up of Pacific news from around the region, including an official end to Samoa's whooping cough outbreak.

A social worker who has helped 10 teenagers who escaped slavery fears others remain under lock and key. Audio

"Most of them had no contact with family back in Samoa." In one case a church minister raped his adopted daughter and got her pregnant.

The world-first training program is underway at the Australian Federal Police's state-of-the-art Pacific Policing Development and Coordination Hub in Brisbane.

Feature - "I've always been aspirational for others. We, Pacific people, have been brought up that we are the people of the 'we' and not the 'me'".

Laiana McClinton, who has links to Tonga and Samoa, won both the events at the Florida State High School Athletics competition.

Pacific police chiefs have discussed the region's drug trafficking problems on a panel at the World Police Summit in Dubai. Audio