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Round up of news from around the Pacific including Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Guam, Samoa, and Solomon Islands

A misleading Covid-19 vaccine slogan, a health campaign that flipped TV viewers the bird, and two sports stars in their underwear were among last year's top advertisements to provoke the ire of…

New Caledonia's pro-independence movement says the advice of the International Court of Justice is being sought over the contested 2021 referendum on independence from France.

The race discrimination commissioner warns against making race the focus of debate on the Voice to Parliament, as opponents claim it will "re-racialise" the nation.

Turks vote on Sunday in a momentous presidential run-off to decide whether or not Recep Tayyip Erdogan should remain in power after 20 years.

New Caledonia's largest pro-independence party says the latest French pronouncement on self-determination is an insult to the decolonisation process.

A round-up of news from around the Pacific including the signing of a major agreement by Palau and the US

The French interior minister Gerald Darmanin has invited the United Nations decolonisation committee members to visit New Caledonia. Audio

French Polynesia's newly-elected president Moetai Brotherson has presented a 10-member government, which includes four women.

Medicinal cannabis products could be available to some people in the Cook Islands as early as June and will "definitely" be available by the end of the year says the country's secretary of health. Audio

There is no support from the Pacific Islands Forum for New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS movement seeking to annul the outcome of the 2021 referendum on independence from France.

For French Polynesia's newly elected president Moetai Brotherson not independence from France but continued assistance to the victims of the flooding two weeks ago is the most urgent challenge. Audio

Round-up of news from Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Northern Marianas, Guam, American Samoa, Samoa

The Te Pāti Māori co-leader would not be drawn on whether the party would prefer to be part of a coalition government or not following the general election. Audio

Turkey's all-powerful President Erdogan is in the fight of his life against an opposition that has united against him for looming elections.

There has been a warning in New Caledonia against attempts to abandon the decolonisation process pursued over more than two decades.

Ukraine has accused Russia of attacking Bakhmut with phosphorus munitions, while a prominent Russian pro-war blogger has been wounded by a car bomb that killed his driver, officials say.

Another 80,000 have reportedly been wounded - more than lived in Bakhmut before the war.

Opinion - After a furore in Australia over the powers New Zealand's Waitangi Tribunal holds, Massey University professor Michael Belgrave wants to set the facts straight.

Chris Hipkins has confirmed his trip to attend the Coronation of King Charles III will include a face-to-face meeting, and a stop with NZDF troops training Ukrainians.

National Party leader Christopher Luxon is not impressed with Prime Minister Chris Hipkins' pre-Budget statements, and neither are ACT and the Greens.

New Caledonia's largest pro-independence party has been told that France is panicking and afraid of losing New Caledonia.

French Polynesia's pro-independence Tavini Huiraatira party has come out on top in the first round of the territorial elections. Audio