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HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — The possibility of deep seabed mining near the Marianas triggered an unprecedented wave of opposition from Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands throughout 2025, uniting government leaders, activists and scientists in a fight against federal plans…

HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — Govs. Lou Leon Guerrero of Guam and David Apatang of the CNMI are asking federal ocean officials to send a representative to the two territories for village and community forums before the Jan. 12, 2026, deadline for public input on a deep-sea mining proposal.

(Pacific GIS and Remote Sensing Council) — Beneath the Pacific Ocean, gardens of seagrass play a critical role in trapping and storing carbon at rates of up to 35 times greater than that of tropical rainforests, a frontline protector from climate change.

(Pacific Island Times) — Despite opposition from congressional leaders and the Council of Chiefs, Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr. has agreed to accept Washington’s proposal to relocate unwanted aliens to the Pacific island nation in exchange for supplemental aid and a new hospital.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. on Tuesday said Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau spoke to Palau President Surangel Whipps about transferring third-country nationals to the Pacific Island nation, even after its lawmakers rejected a previous request from Washington on the matter.

HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — Leaders from Guam’s executive and legislative branches, including the congressional delegate, have joined forces to oppose a federal proposal that could open waters near the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to commercial deep-sea mining.

HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — The Public Utilities Commission has approved the base rate increase and the reduction in the Levelized Energy Adjustment Clause for Guam Power Authority billings.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines (Reuters) — When the two gunmen accused of attacking a Hanukkah event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach travelled to the Philippines last month, they kept to themselves most of the time and barely left their room, a hotel staff member said. When they did, it was almost always ar…

(Reuters) — Printing presses at Bangladesh’s two leading newspapers went silent on Friday for the first time in decades after mobs torched their offices in the worst attack on the media ahead of February’s national elections.

MAJURO — The Marshall Islands Environmental Protection Authority has won $29 million in damages for the grounding of a fish supply ship on a reef in this western Pacific nation in 2019 — but can it collect from the company and its insurer?