US$3.6 million compensation for Samoa after New Zealand navy ship sinks on reef

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New Zealand’s government said on Monday it had agreed to pay 10 million tala (US$3.6 million) in compensation to Samoa’s government, a year after New Zealand sailors drove a navy ship aground on a reef off the Pacific Island nation.All 75 people on board evacuated to safety as the boat foundered about 1.6km (one mile) off the coast of Upolu, Samoa’s second largest island, before it caught fire and sank.The wreck of HMNZS Manawanui remains at the site of the sinking on October 6, last year, and...