Fiji is at the forefront of efforts to ensure everyone is protected by early warning systems says Minister for Disaster Management, Sakiasi Ditoka.

The children and villagers of Naqarawai in Namosi will no longer have to use an unsafe bridge and use bamboo rafts to cross a river.

The Taylor Swift craze has arrived in classrooms in the Philippine capital, with a premier university rolling out a celebrity studies course examining the singer and her impact on global pop culture.

Lebanon’s home World Cup qualifier against Australia has been switched to Canberra because of the instability in the Middle East caused by the conflict in Gaza, Football Australia (FA) said on Friday.

A Nigerian designer is making waves in fashion with a gender-fluid clothing line.

President Joe Biden said on Thursday the United States was checking reports of Israeli troops firing on people waiting for food aid in Gaza and that he believes the deadly incident will complicate talks on a ceasefire.

Health authorities in Gaza said on Thursday Israeli fire on people waiting for aid near Gaza City had killed 104 Palestinians and wounded 280, with one hospital saying it had received 10 bodies and dozens of injured patients.

Cabinet approved that a submission be made to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf on Fiji’s extended continental shelf claim in the South Fiji Basin in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Cabinet agreed that the Office of the Attorney General submit an expression of interest for Fiji to host the next Commonwealth Law Ministers Meeting.

The future Rydges Wailoaloa will be developed by owners Hari Punja & Sons Limited on the beachfront at Wailoaloa in Nadi.

The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin and Chad have formally notified the United Nations of their intent to contribute personnel to an international force to help Haitian national police fight armed gangs, a U.N. spokesman said.

Gaza health authorities said Israeli forces on Thursday shot dead more than 100 Palestinians as they waited for aid delivery, but Israel blamed the deaths on crowds that surrounded aid trucks, saying victims had been trampled or run over.