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KOROR (Island Times/Pacnews) — The Ministry of Justice in Palau says convictions, seizures and court-imposed fines tied to methamphetamine cases have risen sharply in recent years, highlighting the growing scale of the country’s illegal drug crisis and the government’s intensified crackdown. Accord…

SUVA (Fiji Sun/Pacnews) — Needle-sharing among methamphetamine users in Fiji has triggered what experts are calling the world’s fastest-growing HIV epidemic, a new Pacific Security College policy paper has warned.

MAJURO — Media freedom in the Pacific Islands was celebrated in Majuro on Saturday with the showcasing of over a dozen short films entered in the “My Pacific Story” competition and the awarding of prize money to the winners.

HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — Despite growing national momentum to put micro-nuclear reactors on military bases, Guam’s government has received no official notification that the island’s installations are next, according to the executive director of the Community Defense Liaison Offic…

HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) —  ASTRO America brought a packed room to attention at the nation’s premier additive manufacturing conference last month in Boston with a panel focused on a claim few in the room had heard made so plainly: building what the organization’s leader calls …

MAJURO — One of the biggest electricity increases in the history of the Marshalls Energy Company was implemented last week — the first of a two-step tariff increase.

WASHINGTON/CAIRO (Reuters) — Relative calm prevailed around the Strait of Hormuz early on Sunday after days of sporadic flare-ups, as the United States waited for ‌Iran’s response to its latest proposals to end more than two months of fighting and begin peace talks.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) — Health experts raced to contain a potential spread of hantavirus as two suspected cases emerged on Friday far from the luxury cruise liner where the outbreak started.

LONDON (Reuters) — Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed on Friday to fight on to deliver on his promise to bring “change” ​to Britain after his Labour Party suffered heavy losses in local elections that deepened doubts over his ability to govern.

“For many, this may look like just an aircraft,” said Air Marshall Islands CEO Albon Jelke. “But for…the people of the Marshall Islands it means so much more.”