Calls for unity and a stronger national identity have taken centre stage as Government leaders use the Girmit legacy to reinforce messages of social cohesion and shared belonging in Fiji’s multicultural society.

The Hot Bread Kitchen has reopened its Suva Market shop today following renovation work, marking its second shop launch for 2026.

Fiji Airways Men’s National 7s flyer, Vuiviwa Naduvalo, is set to light up the 2026 Rugby Premier League after being named among a star-studded lineup featuring some of the world’s best HSBC SVNS Series players.

A family tailoring business in Nadoi Village, Rewa, has been supported by the Government through the Self-Help Programme to strengthen rural entrepreneurship and livelihoods.

The 2026 FIPRA Music Awards has been postponed as organisers respond to the current economic climate impacting the country.

Hospitals in Haiti’s Cite Soleil evacuated their patients and aid group MSF suspended its activities there ‌as fighting between armed groups operating in the area that began a fortnight ago deteriorated over the weekend.
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MSF, or Doctors Without Borders, said hundreds of residents sought refuge in its hospital in the neighborhood – an impoverished part of the capital Port-au-Prince – where one of its security guards was shot by a ​stray bullet while inside the compound.

Tales of war, grief and artificial intelligence join a race for the 2026 Cannes Film Festival’s top prize, ​in a contest left wide open by the absence of big studio contenders and other clear front-runners.

Organizers of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics plan to use the Games’ Cultural Olympiad to showcase the city’s neighborhoods, artists ​and immigrant communities, with programming spanning film, food, fashion, music, ‌performance and visual arts, LA28 officials said.

The U.S. government on Monday announced sanctions against three people and ​nine companies, including four based in Hong Kong and four in the United Arab Emirates, for ‌aiding Iran’s shipment of oil to China. The ninth company is based in Oman.

The London rooftop where The Beatles played their final ​impromptu gig will be immortalised by a new ‌museum dedicated to the band which is due to open next year.

Ukrainian authorities named President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s powerful former chief of staff as a suspect in a ​major corruption probe, a move likely to pile pressure on ‌the president’s office at a sensitive moment in the war with Russia.

CWM Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr Luke Nasedra has assured nurses that hospital management and the Health Ministry remain in active discussions with the Fiji Nurses Association as concerns continue within the health sector.