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- Marshall islanders move to US as living costs soar
The migration of Marshall islanders from the tiny nation in the Pacific to the United States has risen to an eight-year high due to the impact of soaring living costs, officials said. A total of 1,503 people left the Marshall Islands for the United
- 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
- American missile hits distant targets
THE US Air Force yesterday successfully launched an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile from California, firing it at targets in the Pacific Ocean. The ICBM's three re-entry vehicles hit their targets in the Marshall Islands, some
- Tonne of cocaine inside frozen sharks in Mexico
The Mexican navy has uncovered a huge haul of cocaine hidden inside frozen sharks in a container ship. The navy initially said the shipment, discovered off the southeastern Yucatan state on board the Marshall Islands-flagged Dover Strait, had left from a
- Mexico: Cocaine found in frozen sharks
THE Mexican Navy discovered a container ship full of frozen sharks packed with cocaine, authorities said. The shipment was discovered off the eastern state of Yucatan on board the 12-metre, Marshall Islands-flagged Dover Strait, which had left from
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After almost four decades under US administration as the easternmost part of the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Marshall Islands attained independence in 1986 under a Compact of Free Association. Compensation claims continue as a result of US nuclear testing on some of the islands between 1947 and 1962.
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