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News Articles: Papua New Guinea

Pope Francis, seated in his wheelchair is welcomed as Indonesian Minister of Religious Affairs Yaqut Cholil Qoumas, center left, walks during an official welcoming ceremony at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024.

Pope opens Asia odyssey in Indonesia to rally Catholics, hail religious tolerance

The pope's arrival in Indonesia launches an 11-day voyage zigzagging across time zones that will also take him to Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore.

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  • The Associated Press
Villagers search through debris from a landslide in Yambali village in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, on Monday, May 27, 2024. Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene because of water streams trapped beneath tons of debris and decaying corpses seeping downhill.

Fears rise of a second landslide and the spread of disease in Papua New Guinea

The blanket of debris covering a village has become more unstable with rain and streams trapped under it, officials say, and villagers digging with bare hands through muddy rubble is also concerning.

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  • The Associated Press
Villagers search through a landslide in Yambali, in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, on Sunday, May 26, 2024. The International Organization for Migration feared Sunday the death toll from a massive landslide is much worse than what authorities initially estimated.

Papua New Guinea tells the U.N. that a landslide buried more than 2,000 people

The government figure is roughly triple the U.N. estimate of victims killed in the South Pacific island nation's interior. Estimates of the casualties have varied widely since the disaster occurred.

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  • The Associated Press
In this photo provided by the International Organization for Migration, an injured person is carried on a stretcher to seek medical assistance after a landslide in Yambali village, Papua New Guinea, Friday, May 24, 2024. More than 100 people are believed to have been killed in the landslide that buried a village and an emergency response is underway, officials said.

UN estimates more than 670 killed in Papua New Guinea landslide

The International Organization for Migration on Sunday increased its estimate of the death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea to more than 670.

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  • Associated Press
Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea James Marape is shown addressing the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 22, 2022, at U.N. headquarters. Tribal violence in the Enga region has intensified since elections in 2022 that maintained Prime Minister James Marape's administration.

Dozens of men killed in Papua New Guinea tribal violence, police say

At least 26 combatants and an unconfirmed number of bystanders were killed in a gunbattle between warring tribes in Papua New Guinea, police said Monday.

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  • GPB Newsroom