Vanuatu News
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The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu withdrew its recognition of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s administration said today on its Facebook Inc. page.
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Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. , Australia’s third-biggest lender, is seeking a court ruling to stop the country’s tax office from accessing its customer records in the South Pacific Ocean nation of Vanuatu.
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Russia welcomed Vanuatu establishing diplomatic ties with Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia, calling it an important step in Abkhazia’s campaign for greater global recognition.
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A magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands, generating a tsunami that destroyed at least 100 homes and killed several people in the South Pacific island chain, according to the aid organization World Vision.
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It took Ann-Marie Hepler 56 hours to travel from a remote island in the Pacific Ocean to the Olympic Games in London, where the 16-year-old swimmer spent just over 28 seconds competing in the pool.
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Tax havens are like plumbing: They flush money around the globe so efficiently that few people notice -- until someone like Chris Morgan Jones writes a thriller about a sinister energy magnate in Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
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A tsunami warning is in effect for the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia, after a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck in the region, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said in an e-mail.
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Eight people were killed when a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 8.0 off-shore earthquake hit the Solomon Islands yesterday, according to the aid organization World Vision.
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“We talk about money as if it’s a natural force,” the engaging storyteller Mike Daisey says in one of his two solo shows at California’s Berkeley Repertory Theatre .
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Preparing for a recent trip to Indonesia last week, I came across an article by Meidyatama Suryodiningrat, the editor of the feisty Indonesian daily Jakarta Post, protesting that the Obama administration’s “pivot” to Asia seemed too much like an attempt to start a cold war against China, with the help of its neighbors.
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