The copper- and gold-rich Bougainville region is set to declare independence by 2027, eight years after a landslide vote to secede, its leader said on December 11. The region — home to about 300,000 people and a vast, long-shuttered copper and gold mine — voted 97.7% in favor of independence in a 2019 referendum. But...

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