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In his letter to Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown last week, Remengesau said he believes that Pacific unity will be maintained if the informal arrangement between leaders is respected. To maintain that unity, Remengesau is asking the Cook Islands to support the agreement. “Prime Minister, Pal…

That post-election cliff-hanger will determine the balance of power in Washington, as neither party appears to have a lock on a Senate majority right now. So far, the tally for the next Senate is 48 Republicans and 48 Democrats after Tuesday’s election. Two seats in Georgia are headed to runo…

So it was with a mix of disappointment, suspicion and resignation that residents took in news on Saturday that their state had tipped the presidential race in Joe Biden’s favor, denying Trump another four years. “It’s sickening and sad,” said Kayla Doyle, a 35-year-old Trump supporter and manager o…

Democrat Joe Biden won the election on Saturday after a victory in the battleground state of Pennsylvania put him over the threshold of 270 Electoral College votes. Mexico is the United States’ top trade partner, with over $600 billion of annual two-way commerce, and the bilateral relationship with…

The crew of the MV Caroline Voyager, as essential employees, are not considered by the government as equivalent to private citizens undergoing repatriation; however, the government is committed to ensuring that the return of the MV Caroline Voyager and her crew are held to the safest and most airti…

Many Cubans say they do not expect the Democratic former U.S. vice president to lift the decades-old American trade embargo on the Cuba or that bilateral relations will return to the heady days of detente under former President Barack Obama. But they feel encouraged by Biden’s assurances he will pr…

Attorney Boni Tacardon said Vicente Sy confirmed that he never met and gave 500,000 pesos or over $10,000 to the senator, a vocal critic of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs and human rights violations.  Sy revealed this during a hearing the at Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Bran…

Despite that rhetoric, there is little to suggest Beijing will find Biden a soft alternative to Trump, who dramatically shifted the U.S. narrative to confront the world’s second-largest economy in his final year in power. Even before Trump took office, the last Democratic administration of Presiden…

“A great red wave is coming,” Trump said at an Oct. 31 rally in Pennsylvania, predicting a surge of Republican support would carry him to re-election. “There’s not a thing they can do about it.” Trump lost the White House, according to media outlets that called the tight race on Saturday morning fo…

“I was positive that Trump will not make it to a second term. He was too hostile almost towards everybody. He is (more) fit to be a mafia leader than a president of the United States,” said Adel Salman, 40, a high school English teacher in Baghdad. “Let’s wait and see with the Biden presidency. And…