{"id":73648,"date":"2025-08-26T15:19:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T06:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/26\/marshall-islands-parliament-fire-burns-down"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:19:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T06:19:42","slug":"marshall-islands-parliament-burns-down-in-overnight-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73648","title":{"rendered":"Marshall Islands parliament burns down in overnight fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blaze on Tuesday night destroyed the parliament building, archives and library<\/p>\n<p>A fire has destroyed the national parliament building of the Marshall Islands, according to officials in the Pacific Island nation.<\/p>\n<p>The Marshall Islands fire department said half of the parliament building \u2013 known as the Nitijela \u2013 had been burnt down, in an interview with Reuters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/26\/marshall-islands-parliament-fire-burns-down\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blaze on Tuesday night destroyed the parliament building, archives and libraryA fire has destroyed the national parliament building of the Marshall Islands, according to officials in the Pacific Island nation.The Marshall Islands fire department said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,602,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-marshall-islands","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73649,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73648\/revisions\/73649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}