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The extraordinary remarks from the two top diplomatic officials at the Vatican came after Pompeo accused the Church in an article and a series of tweets this month of putting its “moral authority” at risk by renewing an agreement with China over the appointment of bishops. Pompeo, who was in Rome o…

It is a crucial time for Palau, given its economy is highly dependent on tourism, with the President recently telling the United Nations General Assembly that “private sector unemployment is approaching 50%.” “It will take years to recover what we have lost in months,” he said. Palau’s border…

Trump bulldozed his way through the 90-minute debate, trying to goad Biden, claiming that Democrats were trying to steal the November presidential election and declining to condemn white supremacist groups when asked to do so. Moderator Chris Wallace never established control of the debate, with Tr…

In the Southeast Asian country, President Rodrigo Duterte has been bolstered by establishing a powerful support base on social media platforms like Facebook, a factor that was instrumental in his election victory in 2016. But Facebook last week dismantled a network of accounts that originated from …

The number of Covid-19 deaths this year is now double the number of people who die annually from malaria —  and the death rate has increased in recent weeks as infections surge in several countries. “Our world has reached an agonizing milestone,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a st…

Slightly less than 8,000 voters cast their votes in the recent primary election, with Whipps Jr topping the race with 3,546 votes and Oilouch second with 1,984 votes. Along with Oilouch and Whipps, two other candidates former Sen. Alan Seid and former President Johnson Toribiong squared off in the …

With a projected GDP of $283.99 million in 2018, Palau is on the World Bank’s list of high-income economies, a term often interchanged with “first world.” “The truth is, Palau’s high-income categorization is, in many ways, unrealistic. It does not match the facts on the ground, or refle…

“I had everyone in the cabinet summoned. I said I was getting fed up. In my years in government, thee had been no end to this corruption.” “There’s really no end to this corruption. It’s really hard to stop it,” he went on. “Up to now, it’s being committed every day. Can you stop it? You cannot. Th…

The number of deaths from the novel coronavirus this year is now double the number of people who die annually from malaria — and the death rate has increased in recent weeks as infections surge in several countries. “Our world has reached an agonizing milestone,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Gute…