Regional

The room at the Guam Congress Building was not full Friday afternoon. Just three senators showed up, a handful of community members took seats in the gallery, and no one from Joint Region Marianas or Joint Task Force-Micronesia came, just as no military officials attended the first briefing in May.

Desperate Venezuelans and rescue teams raced ​to find survivors on Friday as the death toll from twin earthquakes rose above 900 with foreign crews and aid only beginning to reach devastated areas nearly two days after the ‌quakes.

The rate hike comes amid significant increases in GPA’s fuel costs due to the U.S.-Israel war with Iran and the latter’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping route for much of the world’s fuel supply.

The United States, Britain, France and Germany raised the alarm on Wednesday over recent Chinese ‌activities off the east coast of Taiwan, where China has mounted Coast Guard patrols, saying they threaten regional stability and freedom of navigation.

Philippine authorities are rethinking school safety measures and looking to expand civil defense planning to cover gun violence, officials said on Tuesday, ​a day after a deadly attack at a high school shocked a nation where such incidents are rare.

When Pacific Island Finance ministers gather Tuesday in Majuro for their annual meeting, they will not only hear about this north Pacific nation’s new digital money system, they will also get a hands-on opportunity to use it at a night market being held in conjunction with the meeting.

Cook Islands Secretary of Health Bob Williams has called for a tougher, more coordinated Pacific response to drug trafficking.

The charging document contains allegations that during a traffic stop on June 19, Alice Elizabeth Cruz Cabales, 45, was displaying behavior that police believe is consistent with being under the influence of narcotics.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni accused her one-time close ally Donald Trump of fabricating a story about her on Friday, after the ​U.S. president told an Italian TV channel that she had “begged” him to take a photo with her at a G7 summit.

The depression, which began as Invest 92W, produced Guam’s roughest night in months, sending wind gusts up to 55 mph before dawn Friday and underscoring that even a relatively modest storm can pack a punch when it passes close enough.