Marshall Islands News

The Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau all have their own Social Security systems, but the agencies treated numbers issued by the three nations as if they were U.S. numbers, regardless of whether they were already in use.

IMAGES Nuclear tests in the South Pacific[Credits : Encyclopdia Britannica, Inc.] A test of a U.S. thermonuclear weapon at Enewetak atoll in the Marshall Islands, [Credits : U.S. Air Force - Time Life Pictures/Getty Images] Main atoll, Marshall Islands also spelled Eniwetok atoll, northwestern end of the Ralik chain, Republic of the Marshall ...

Marshall Islands President Jurelang Zedkaia called for the country to pull together and put political divisions behind it during his inauguration ceremony Monday.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it has corrected a processing glitch that linked U.S. Social Security numbers to those issued in three foreign countries.

Today is Sunday, November 1, the 305th day of 2009. There are 60 days left in the year.

Watching the waters rise Fallen palm trees are concrete evidence of climate change, but that's difficult for some islanders to admit.

THE U.S. Department of the Interior is now processing the CNMI's fiscal year 2010 reimbursements for hosting migrants from the Freely Associated States for $1.9 million - down by $3.2 million compared to previous years as more Micronesians have moved to the more affluent American communities on Guam and Hawaii.

The Marshall Islands parliament on Monday elected the speaker, Jurelang Zedkaia, as the Pacific island country's fifth president.

Hobart native Tom Dettweiler knows what didn't happen to Amelia Earhart when she disappeared in July 1937 while trying to fly around the world.

A temporary restraining order halting the state from switching Pacific islanders to a health plan without dialysis or chemotherapy coverage has been extended pending completion of a rule-making process.

Last month, when the state Department of Human Services announced the elimination of certain medical services, such as kidney dialysis and chemotherapy, for about 7,500 Micronesians, Victor Geminiani immediately filed suit to block the cuts.

Officials from Pacific island countries, which may become the earliest victims of climate change, are set to devise a strategy for the crucial Copenhagen conference.

Many Pacific islands in danger of being obliterated by rising sea levels should seek relocation aid at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, a Fiji-based scientist said.

Marshall Islands President Litokwa Tomeing is facing his third no confidence test in 12 months after his predecessor Kessai Note and three opposition party members moved the vote onto the parliament's agenda Wednesday.

The Pacific island officials plan to bolster their negotiating position for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December when they meet in the Marshall Islands at the Pacific Climate Change Roundtable next week.

A major landowner on a Pacific island has gone to court in a move that could shut down a key link in the U.S missile defense system.

The first Japan-Marshall Islands Policy Consultation on Economic Cooperation will be held here today with the aim of improving aid flow to this western Pacific nation.

It's supposed to be the stuff of science fiction: A device that triggers a nuclear holocaust in the event of a U.S. strike against Russia.

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Handmade shell necklaces were in style Monday afternoon when the consul general of the Republic of the Marshall Islands opened a ceremony with music and prayer at the Boone Ritter building across the street from City Hall.