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- Marshall Islands in TB health emergency
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 AFP - An outbreak of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the Marshall Islands has been declared a public health emergency, as the government Saturday considered invoking special powers of quarantine.
- Visit by Dr Danilo Türk, President of the Republic of Slovenia
.. Improved railway punctuality in 2009 .. .. Ray LaHood announces federal ban on texting for commercial truck drivers .. IATA applauds AENA reform plan .. Japan Airlines Decides on New Top Management Positions .. Marshall Islands now ranked as 3rd
- House Approves Legislation On Self-Rule for Micronesia
The House of Representatives today passed by voice vote a compact that would give residents of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands control over their own affairs, except for defense. The legislation went to the Senate.
- Soviets Yield to U.S. on Pacific Islands' Status
In a postscript to the end of the cold war, the Soviet Union has allowed the United Nations Security Council to dissolve America's 43-year-old strategic trusteeship over a string of Pacific islands captured from Japan in the closing phases of World War II. For years the Soviet Union threatened to veto any formal bid to terminate American trusteeship over the Northern Marianas, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. Moscow had contended that Washington was bullying the isla...
- Saudi Elected by the U.N. Assembly
Helped by his country's victory in the Persian Gulf war, Saudi Arabia's United Nations representative, Samir Shihabi, surprised many today by easily winning election to the largely ceremonial post of President of the 46th General Assembly. More predictable on the Assembly's opening day were the votes formally admitting North and South Korea, the three newly independent Baltic republics, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia, raising United Nations membership to 166.
- U.N. Assembly Calls for Israel To Drop Threat Against Arafat
United Nations General Assembly emergency sessions approves resolution demanding that Israel rescind threat to deport Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat; minor changes to resolution, vetoed by United States in Security Council, are enough to win support of Germany and Britain, who abstained in council vote; Israel, United States, Micronesia and Marshall Islands vote against measure; main change puts more stress on condemning suicide bombings by Palestinians than extrajudicial killings by Israelis;...
- 15 Countries Named as Potential Money-Laundering Havens
Financial Action Task Force, body created by Group of 7 wealthy countries to fight money laundering, names 15 countries and territories as potential havens for ill-gotten wealth; they are Israel, Philippines, Russia, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Dominica, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Panama, St Kitts and Nevis and St Vincent and the Grenadines
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AFP - The US military failed to shoot down a ballistic missile in a test resembling an Iranian or North Korean strike after a radar malfunctioned, a spokesman said on Monday.
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