Guam
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‘Everyone should be worried’: life in the crosshairs of China’s ‘Guam killer’ missiles
The big Beijing military parade included new weaponry that analysts say could potentially threaten the US Paci…
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‘Prepared for a long stay’: tsunami alert triggers mass evacuations across Pacific
People in Guam and Japan move to higher ground, while highways in Hawaii busy as residents leave for safe area…
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‘Creating inequality’: Hong Kong’s same-sex marriage registration proposal criticised
Government framework to recognise ‘core rights’ said to barely reach minimum ordered by court rulingDino Wong …
- Asia Pacific, China, Guam, Pacific islands, Pacific leaders: in their words, US defence spending, US news
Pacific island governor backs $800m US military upgrade amid China threat
Northern Mariana Islands governor says ‘the world is changing in the Indo-Pacific’ as work continues in the US…
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Guam fears becoming ‘target’ over planned $1.5bn US defence system
Proposed air and missile defences raise ire of residents who are also concerned about environmental impactsA p…
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Weather tracker: Guam narrowly avoids worst of Typhoon Mawar
Wind and rain bring island to a standstill but eye replacement cycle weakens super typhoon temporarilyEarlier …
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North Korea has fired another ballistic missile, South says
Launch was the sixth in 12 days and the first since an intermediate-range missile was fired over Japan on Tues…
- Asia Pacific, Coronavirus, Guam, Health, Pacific islands, US news, Vaccines and immunisation, World news
Guam’s vaccination success story turns grim with Covid surge
Once the great vaccination success story, the island is under strain amid a new wave of infections, but expert…
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Air VnV: sold-out flights start from Taiwan to Guam for ‘vacation and vaccination’ trips
About 170 people, some wearing hazmat suits, were the first to fly to the Pacific island for a holiday with a …
- Asia Pacific, Cook Islands, Fiji, Guam, Joe Biden, Pacific islands, Papua New Guinea, US elections 2020, US politics, World news
Pacific nations herald Biden presidency amid hope for action on climate emergency
Optimism abounds as leaders from Fiji to Papua New Guinea welcome the new US president-electJoe Biden’s presid…
- Asia Pacific, Colonialism, Guam, Pacific islands, US elections 2020, US news, US politics, World news
The US election that doesn’t count: Guam goes to the polls but votes won’t matter
‘Now that I live in Guam, I cannot vote’. The first Americans to ‘vote’ on polling day have no say in who will…
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Remote Marshall Islands records its first coronavirus cases
Pacific nation was one of the last on Earth without a single confirmed Covid-19 infectionCoronavirus – latest …
- Asia Pacific, Environment, Guam, Nuclear waste, Nuclear weapons, Pacific islands, South Pacific, Waste, World news
‘Poisoning the Pacific’: New book details US military contamination of islands and ocean
More than 12,000 pages of US government documents show military operations contaminating the Pacific with radi…
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‘We are in dire straits’: Pacific stands on Covid brink amid surging infections
Rising cases in Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, and Guam raise fears of uncontrolled coronavirus outbreaks…
- Guam, Indigenous peoples, Japan, Pacific islands, South Pacific, United Nations, US military, World news
‘Our children’s lives on the line’: the ongoing battle for Guam
America’s militarisation of the western Pacific island threatens its ecosystem, culture and history, a plea be…