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Miss Pacific Islands Beauty Pageant Hit By Fraud Row
The Miss Pacific Islands Pageant crowned Litara Ieremia-Allan of Samoa as the winner of this year's contest. But Solomons authorities soon launched a police investigation into "alleged fraudulent activities".
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Body Found Inside Plane Days After Crash Landing In Pacific Lagoon
A male passenger's body has been found inside an airliner that ditched and sank in a lagoon last week after missing the runway on a remote Pacific island, officials said.
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Plane Ditches Into Lagoon, Passengers Swim For Their Lives
Passengers were forced to swim for their lives Friday when an airliner ditched into a lagoon after missing the runway on a remote Pacific island and immediately began sinking.
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Ferry With 50 On Board Missing In Central Pacific
A search was under way Saturday for a ferry with 50 people on board that has not been seen for more than a week in the tiny island nation of Kiribati in the central Pacific.
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5 Dead After Canadian Whale-Watching Boat Sinks
Five people have been confirmed dead and one missing after a whale-watching vessel carrying 27 sank off Canada's Pacific coast near Vancouver Island, the Coast Guard said Sunday.
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Ana Strengthens Into Hurricane But May Miss Hawaiian Islands
Tropical Storm Ana, swirling in the central Pacific Ocean, was upgraded to hurricane status on Friday but forecasters said they now believe the storm will drift some 100 miles to the south and miss the Hawaiian Islands.
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US Navy Calls Off Search for Pilot Downed in Jet Crash
The US Navy suspended its search Saturday for a pilot who was missing after his jet collided with another US aircraft in the western Pacific Ocean.
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Experts say video doesn't show Amelia Earhart's plane wreckage
Experts retained by an aircraft preservation group say underwater video shot in the South Pacific yields no evidence of the wreckage of the missing plane piloted by aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart.
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Search resumes for seven Japanese divers missing near Bali
Indonesian rescuers on Sunday resumed their search for seven Japanese scuba divers who vanished during a dive near Bali two days ago, a consular official said.
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Typhoon, mudslides kill 17 in Japan; 50 missing
A typhoon caused deadly mudslides that buried people and destroyed homes on a Japanese island Wednesday before sweeping up the Pacific coast, grounding hundreds of flights and disrupting Tokyo's transportation during the morning rush. At least 17 deaths were reported and nearly 50 people were missing.
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Missing Pacific island riddle solved
A New Zealand researcher on Monday claimed to have solved the riddle of a mystery South Pacific island shown on Google Earth and world maps which does not exist, blaming a whaling ship from 1876.
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Miss Pacific Islands Beauty Pageant Hit By Fraud Row
The Miss Pacific Islands Pageant crowned Litara Ieremia-Allan of Samoa as the winner of this year's contest. But Solomons authorities soon launched a police investigation into "alleged fraudulent activities".
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Body Found Inside Plane Days After Crash Landing In Pacific Lagoon
A male passenger's body has been found inside an airliner that ditched and sank in a lagoon last week after missing the runway on a remote Pacific island, officials said.
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Plane Ditches Into Lagoon, Passengers Swim For Their Lives
Passengers were forced to swim for their lives Friday when an airliner ditched into a lagoon after missing the runway on a remote Pacific island and immediately began sinking.
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Ferry With 50 On Board Missing In Central Pacific
A search was under way Saturday for a ferry with 50 people on board that has not been seen for more than a week in the tiny island nation of Kiribati in the central Pacific.
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5 Dead After Canadian Whale-Watching Boat Sinks
Five people have been confirmed dead and one missing after a whale-watching vessel carrying 27 sank off Canada's Pacific coast near Vancouver Island, the Coast Guard said Sunday.
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Ana Strengthens Into Hurricane But May Miss Hawaiian Islands
Tropical Storm Ana, swirling in the central Pacific Ocean, was upgraded to hurricane status on Friday but forecasters said they now believe the storm will drift some 100 miles to the south and miss the Hawaiian Islands.
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US Navy Calls Off Search for Pilot Downed in Jet Crash
The US Navy suspended its search Saturday for a pilot who was missing after his jet collided with another US aircraft in the western Pacific Ocean.
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Experts say video doesn't show Amelia Earhart's plane wreckage
Experts retained by an aircraft preservation group say underwater video shot in the South Pacific yields no evidence of the wreckage of the missing plane piloted by aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart.
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Search resumes for seven Japanese divers missing near Bali
Indonesian rescuers on Sunday resumed their search for seven Japanese scuba divers who vanished during a dive near Bali two days ago, a consular official said.
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Typhoon, mudslides kill 17 in Japan; 50 missing
A typhoon caused deadly mudslides that buried people and destroyed homes on a Japanese island Wednesday before sweeping up the Pacific coast, grounding hundreds of flights and disrupting Tokyo's transportation during the morning rush. At least 17 deaths were reported and nearly 50 people were missing.
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Missing Pacific island riddle solved
A New Zealand researcher on Monday claimed to have solved the riddle of a mystery South Pacific island shown on Google Earth and world maps which does not exist, blaming a whaling ship from 1876.
