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Transporter-erector-launchers for China’s DF-41, one of a number of ICBM types the country currently has in service, on parade. A BRIEF statement by the Ministry of National Defense in Beijing called China’s September 25 test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile or ICBM into the South Pa…

SUVA (FBC News/Pacnews) —Fiji’s earnings from tourism for the second quarter of this year were recorded at F$646.1 million (US$323.05 million). The Fiji Bureau of Statistics revealed that this is a 31.7% increase from the earnings recorded during the first quarter of the year, where earnings were F…

Carmen Cantor KOROR (DOI-OIA) — The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs Carmen G. Cantor has announced $80.4 million in grant awards to the Republic of Palau for Fiscal Year 2025 as provided for under the Compact of Free Association Section 43…

A projectile is seen in the sky after Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Tel Aviv, Israel, Oct. 1, 2024. (Reuters) — The Iranian ballistic missile attack against Israel on Tuesday was larger, more complex and involved m…

V.S.A. Benavente Middle School is seen on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Dededo. HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — Two 12-year-old boys are the latest to be arrested in a series of online threats about committing harm at different schools. Detectives with the Juvenile Investigation Section of the Guam P…

Carmen G. Cantor KOROR (DOI-OIA) —  The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs Carmen G. Cantor has announced $2,624,848 in grant awards under the Office of Insular Affairs’ Coral Reef and Natural Resources or CRNR Initiative to protect natural r…

PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (USDOL) — Workers on American Samoa employed in industries covered by the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 received a 40-cent increase in their hourly wage beginning Sept. 30. The Fair Labor Standards Act applies generally to employment in American Samoa as it does to employm…

Chinese vessels are pictured at the disputed Scarborough Shoal on April 6, 2017. BEIJING (Reuters) — Chinese air and naval forces are conducting maneuvers in a disputed area of the South China Sea, the military said on Saturday, hours after the country’s top diplomat discussed ways of reducin…

A man stands in a café as a news broadcast shows China announcing new military drills around Taiwan, in Keelung, Taiwan, May 23, 2024. TAIPEI (Reuters) — Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday it was on alert after detecting “multiple waves” of missile firing deep in inland Chin…

Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addresses his supporters during a public appearance at a religious procession, in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Oct. 11, 2016. JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) — Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has been killed, the Iran-backed …