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This communication is being sent on behalf of Constantine Yowbalaw, director of the Yap State Department of Youth & Civic Affairs, to provide information as we now know it. The hearings for the Yap State and FSM National court cases for the murder of Rachelle Bergeron-Hammerling in October 2019…

This was highlighted in a zoom meeting held with members of the Pacific Transnational Crime Network. The meeting chaired by the Samoan Police Commissioner Egon Keil to discussed the challenges faced by Pacific regional law enforcement agencies during the 2019 to 2020 period. Another major topic of …

The grand jury decided that none of the three white officers involved in the deadly police raid on Taylor’s apartment would be charged for causing her death, though one officer was indicted on charges of endangering her neighbors. The indictment came more than six months after Taylor, 26, a Black e…

“My husband John lived by a code: country first,” McCain wrote on Twitter. “We are Republicans, yes, but Americans foremost. There’s only one candidate in this race who stands up for our values as a nation, and that is @JoeBiden.” Biden, who forged a long friendship with John McCain despite their i…

But with the coronavirus taking a human and economic toll on the Philippines, the often brash Duterte also struck a somewhat conciliatory tone about the organization he has often criticized and at times threatened to leave. “The Philippines values the role that the United Nations plays in its fight…

The president instructed the chair of the Covid-19 Task Force and secretary of the Department of Health & Social Affairs, Livingston A. Taulung, to proceed with focusing all repatriation-related efforts on bringing home FSM citizens stranded in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The presiden…

Finance Minister Elbuchel Sadang said the call was made during the Asian Development Bank’s 53rd Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors online. He said the Pacific is facing serious economic problems due to Covid-19. At the Pacific governors’ meeting with ADB President Masatsugu Asakawa on Wednes…

Trump said he had “a pretty good idea” of his choice for the seat in an interview on WGN America’s NewsNation program. He told reporters earlier: “We’re getting very close to having a final decision made.” The president has said he plans to announce his nominee by Saturday and has urged the Senate,…

Sanctions should be slapped on officials responsible for inciting killings or failing to prevent them, said Agnes Callamard, U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. Callamard, speaking on a panel, read out a statement issued by 32 U.N. experts in late June, which …

China’s President Xi Jinping struck a conciliatory tone in his pre-recorded virtual address to the General Assembly, calling for enhanced cooperation over the pandemic and stressing that China had no intention of fighting “either a Cold War or a hot war with any country.” But China’s U.N. ambassado…