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Setting up a petite, garden-size game of kubb at the King’s Garden in Copenhagen. Maria Adelmann/NYT Wirecutter It was a surprising turn of events because I’ve never been much of a yard-game gal.
Last week the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The highly infectious virus was found in two healthy, polio-vaccinated children who were screened ...
A 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit off the north coast of Papua New Guinea, Phivolcs said Sunday evening, adding that no tsunami threat to the Philippines has been detected. According to the monitoring ...
Papua New Guinea’s state-owned mining company will pay at least $60 million to ASX-listed Kingston Resources for control of a major gold development and exploration project in the Solomon Sea.
Following Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s May 2025 re-election, Australia is advancing a historic defence treaty with Papua New Guinea. Rooted in shared history and strategic urgency amid ...
This is the first polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea since 2018, when an outbreak was reported in the same area as the new detections, Lae city in Morobe province. Vaccination protects against all ...
Earthquake of Magnitude 6.6 Strikes Northeast of Angoram, Papua New Guinea, USGS Says (Reuters) -A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck northeast of Angoram, Papua New Guinea, early on Wednesday ...
JAKARTA - Torrential rains forced a halt on May 19 to Indonesia's search for 14 missing in its easternmost region of Papua after a landslide killed six workers at a gold mine and injured four ...
Papua New Guinea Kina (PGK) United Arab Emirates Dirham (AED) 1 PGK to AED = 0.895 PGK AED on 25/05/2025 Papua New Guinea Kina (PGK) Albanian Lek (ALL) 1 PGK to ALL = 21.1009 PGK ALL on 25/05/2025 ...
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A journalist says people in Papua New Guinea want action to violence - not just the usual condemnation from leaders. Another gruesome video is circulating social media from Enga Province ...
The variable pitohui, a poisonous bird, captured in a mist net on the outskirts of Wanang Village in Papua New Guinea in 2018. In the summer of 1989, Jack Dumbacher was a fresh-faced ornithologist ...