WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Samoa went to the polls Friday in a critical election that could decide the future of the Pacific Island nation’s first woman leader, who called the vote after her ...

NEWCASTLE, Australia (AP) — Samoa will head to the polls on Aug. 29, a half-year earlier than expected, after Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa’s government collapsed following a budget defeat in ...

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Lionel Fatu Elika, the country's national boxing coach, died in the athletes’ Olympic Village July 26, the first day of the Games. He was 60 years old. The coach, who was working with Samoa's lone ...