Marshall Islands
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Ex-president demands inquiry into Marshall Islands ‘mini-state plot’
Hilda Heine calls for investigation into Chinese couple’s alleged efforts to bribe officials to help set up ta…
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Marshall Islands, haven from Covid for two years, gets 3,000 cases in space of weeks
Pacific country had recorded no community transmission of the virus until last week, and healthcare is struggl…
- Anthony Albanese, Asia Pacific, Australia news, Australian foreign policy, China, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Pacific islands
Power struggle with China and regional rift in focus as Anthony Albanese heads to Pacific Islands forum
Absence of Kiribati from the meeting is ‘really devastating’ to the body’s long-term strategy, security expert…
- Asia Pacific, China, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Pacific islands, Russia, Solomon Islands, South Pacific, Ukraine, Vanuatu, World news
Pacific nations walk geopolitical tightrope over Ukraine war, as nuclear legacy looms
Pacific leaders have broadly lambasted the Russian assault, but some countries have resisted outright condemna…
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Rising sea levels threaten Marshall Islands’ status as a nation, World Bank report warns
Large parts of Pacific country’s capital would be permanently flooded and islands would disappear, according t…
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Global shipping is a big emitter, the industry must commit to drastic action before it is too late | Casten Ned Nemra
Around 80% of global trade is transported across oceans on cargo vessels powered by fossil fuels, Pacific nati…
- Asia Pacific, Coronavirus, Infectious diseases, Marshall Islands, Pacific islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, South Pacific, Vaccines and immunisation, Vanuatu
Vanuatu coronavirus vaccine rollout to take until end of 2023
The majority of the Pacific nation’s population won’t be immunised for another two years, government planning …
- Asia Pacific, Climate change, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Pacific islands, Pacific Islands Forum, Palau, Solomon Islands, Tonga, World news
Zoomed to fail? Cracks appear in Pacific Islands Forum as Covid pulls nations apart
Pacific diplomacy hinges on in-person discussion but web-only meetings have fed a growing dispute over the for…
- Asia Pacific, Marshall Islands, Pacific islands, Papua New Guinea, Plastics, South Pacific, Vanuatu, World news
‘A memory bobbing around the ocean’: message in a bottle found after two years
Conservationist on a remote Papua New Guinean island finds message from American girl thrown overboard more th…
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The baby-selling scheme: poor pregnant Marshall Islands women lured to the US
Dozens of women from the Pacific island victims of brazen trafficking ring that operated for years Rolson Pric…
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Ghost boat laden with cocaine washes up in the Marshall Islands
Abandoned vessel containing 649kg of drug washes up on a remote Pacific atoll after potentially years at seaPo…
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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, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Nuclear waste, Nuclear weapons, Pacific islands, South Pacific, World news
Now that nuclear weapons are illegal, the Pacific demands truth on decades of testing | Dimity Hawkins
With a 50th nation ratifying it, the treaty outlawing nuclear weapons for all countries will come into force i…
- Asia Pacific, Australia news, Australian foreign policy, Australian immigration and asylum, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Migration, New Zealand, Pacific islands, Palau, Tonga, Tuvalu, World news
Australia should create ‘Pacific visa’ to reduce impact of climate change and disaster on islanders
Displacement is growing in the Asia-Pacific region, and a new policy paper argues migration policies must be e…
- Asia Pacific, Climate change, Environment, Fossil fuels, Greenhouse gas emissions, Marshall Islands, Oceans, Pacific islands, Paris climate agreement, United Nations, World news
My country may be swept away by the climate crisis if the rest of the world fails to uphold its promises | President David Kabua
Now is a time for courage. It will take sacrifices from everyone for us all to survive, the president of the M…