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The World Health Organization says the PNG outbreak is linked to strains circulating in Indonesia, posing a serious risk to other countries in the region.

Papua New Guinea's foreign minister says he personally hopes Labor wins the Australian election, stating the incumbent government had done "a tremendous job" of rebuilding relationships in the Pacific.

A magnitude-6.9 earthquake has struck off Papua New Guinea's coast on Saturday morning.   

Pope Francis approves the canonisation of Peter ToRot as PNG's first saint, not long after being released from hospital. 

PNG's version of the ATO has been hit with a massive cyber attack, compromising sensitive data belonging to millions of individuals and private companies, but there's been no word about the breach yet from the Internal Revenue Commission's boss.

A PNG police officer has been arrested and charged after allegedly threatening a civilian with a semiautomatic rifle.

The Papua New Guinean government says it will cooperate with any official request to send former Bradford Bulls player Keven Appo back to England, where he is due to front court on charges of rape, sexual assault of a female and two counts of assault.

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