MARSHALL ISLANDS calls for curbs on maritime carbon emissions
The Marshall Islands, holder of one of the worlds largest shipping registries, has called for curbs on maritime carbon emissions before a global climate deal due to be finalised in Paris in December. The tiny Pacific nations plea comes in a.
Pentagon: Iranian Forces Board MARSHALL ISLANDS-Flagged.
WASHINGTON ��� Iranian forces boarded a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf on Tuesday after patrol boats fired warning shots across its bow and ordered it deeper into Iranian waters as it was traveling through��.
OFFICE FIRE PUTS MARSHALL ISLES IN A REAL MESS
The two-year-old government of the Marshall Islands, an American-administered trust territory about 2,000 miles southwest of Hawaii, lost its operational center and irreplaceable financial, legal and other records in a predawn fire Aug. 24, according to the governments liaison office here. The blaze destroyed the Administration Building, which housed the offices of the chief secretary, the attorney general and the auditor general, the departments of finance, immigration and social security and the Marshall Islands credit union. Also destroyed were two government warehouses containing valuable equipment parts and other materials.
MARSHALL ISLANDS TO VOTE ON PACT WITH U.S.
Residents of the Marshall Islands are being asked to approve an agreement with Washington next Wednesday that would give the 32,000 or so residents limited independence with the United States retaining military control. Any who vote against the agreement, called the Compact of Free Association, may state a preference, on the same ballot, between full independence or further negotiations with Washington on some unspecified new kind of relationship with the United States. Two other island groups, also taken from Japan in World War II and held by the United States under a United Nations trusteeship - the Palau Islands in the Western Pacific and the Federated States of Micronesia, consisting of Truk, Yap, Ponape and the Caroline islands - have already endorsed the compact by substantial majorities. The result in Palau has been clouded, however, by a successful court challenge.
Republic of the Marshall Islands Decentralization Model.
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Registry has seen a busy year, with both significant fleet and service expansion. Surpassing the milestone of 100.
US Flagged Ship, Marshall Island Ship, Taken By Iran.
The episode came ahead of an encounter Tuesday in which Iran Revolutionary Guard patrol boats fired shots at a commercial cargo ship and then intercepted the vessel, the Marshall Islands-flagged M/V Maersk Tigris, which��.
Dubai - U.S.: Iranian Forces Board MARSHALL ISLANDS-flagged.
Dubai - Iranian patrol vessels fired warning shots across the bridge of a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo vessel that was traversing the Strait of Hormuz in Iranian territorial waters, a Pentagon official said Tuesday. Col.
Life After Land
Island nations that sink as sea levels rise should be able to retain their sovereignty.
Tracking the Debris From Japans Tsunami
Just over six months have passed since a huge tsunami slammed into northeastern Japan, killing thousands of people and wrecking towns and villages along the coast.. A research vessel will embark on a 7,000-mile voyage to get a clearer idea of the sheer amount of trash in the ocean and the speed at which it is dispersing.
U.S., Marshall Islands Discuss Way Ahead After Iran Detains Ship
Officials from the United States and the Marshall Islands are discussing the way ahead after Iranian patrol boats forcibly diverted a cargo ship flying a Marshall Islands flag into an anchorage in Iranian waters, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
MARSHALL ISLANDS Calls for New Global Target to Cut.
Marshall Islands Foreign Minister, Tony de Brum to request new emissions targets for global shipping industry. The Republic of the Marshall Islands (Marshall Islands) Monday issued an emailed press release calling for the��.
U.S., MARSHALL ISLANDS discuss way ahead after Iran detains ship
Officials from the United States and the Marshall Islands are discussing the way ahead after Iranian patrol boats forcibly diverted a cargo ship flying a Marshall Islands flag into an anchorage in Iranian waters, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
MARSHALL ISLANDS will appeal in nuclear case against US
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� The tiny Pacific nation of the Marshall Islands is persisting with an unprecedented lawsuit demanding that the United States meet its obligations toward getting rid of its nuclear weapons. It filed notice Thursday that it will.
Marshall Islands Will Appeal in Nuclear Case Against US
The tiny Pacific nation of the Marshall Islands is persisting with an unprecedented lawsuit demanding that the United States meet its obligations toward getting rid of its nuclear weapons. It filed notice Thursday that it will appeal a federal judges decision to dismiss the case.
After 9 Months Adrift at Sea, Survivors Tell Their Stories
Some greeted the Mexican fishermen as folk heroes, but others cast a skeptical eye on their epic story of seamanship and survival.
Pentagon says ship that Iran seized was from Marshall Islands
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- A cargo ship that Iran has seized was from the Marshall Islands and not the U.S., news services reported, citing a Pentagon spokesman. Earlier Middle East news reports said the ship was from the U.S. The Pentagon .
US Navy denies report Americans have been detained by.
The ship was traveling through an internationally recognized shipping lane and flying the flag of the Marshall Islands, a Pacific island nation. Now a US destroyer, the USS Farragut, is being deployed to the Persian Gulf in an��.
Climate change in the Marshall Islands and Kiribati, before.
In the low-lying Pacific atolls of the Marshall Islands and Kiribati rising sea levels mean regular floods are slowly making life untenable in a place where no one lives more than a few metres above the sea.
MARSHALL ISLANDS consults on deep sea minerals
MAJURO, Marshall Islands (Secretariat of the Pacific Community) ���The Republic of the Marshall Islands or RMI with the assistance of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community-European Union Deep Sea Minerals Project, has commenced public consultations .
NEW DAY FOR THE KANAKAS
The Navys first report on its administration of the conquered Marshall Islands is a happy augury for the island peoples of the Pacific. Here is being set the pattern to be followed elsewhere. Amid the exigencies of war a measure of self-rule that has not been known for over a century is being established.. ed
Arkansas a Draw for Marshall Islanders
Arkansas has the largest enclave of Marshall Islanders in the continental United States. Many of them are adrift in an American culture that confounds them.
Mexico: Inquiry Planned for Fishermen Who Survived Epic Voyage
Three Mexican fishermen who survived nine months adrift in a small open boat in the Pacific Ocean but say two other men died on board will be investigated, said President Vicente Fox’s spokesman, Rubén Aguilar. “The presidency accepts as fact that they had this experience of practically nine months adrift,” Mr. Aguilar said, “but a series of circumstances have to be explained, such as how the two other fishermen aboard the boat disappeared.” The three men’s story of survival on the high seas — staying alive by eating raw birds and fish, and drinking rainwater — until they were picked up by a Taiwanese fishing boat two weeks ago more than 5,000 miles away, near the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific, has captivated Mexico. But in recent days, questions have arisen over why they went to sea, with suggestions that they might be drug smugglers, and over the two other men who died on board. The three men — Lucio Rendón, Jesus Vidaña and Salvador Ordoñez — landed Monday in the Marshall Islands, where doctors confirmed that they were well enough to go home. As for the boat, they were unanimous: “We don’t even want to see it,” Mr. Rendón, above, told the Mexican newspaper Reforma. “It can stay where it is.”.
Iran Seizes MARSHALL ISLANDS Cargo Ship in Strait of Hormuz.
The Marshall Islands ship issued a ���distress call��� when it was being boarded by Iranian ships, in Iranian waters, and the USS Farragut, a destroyer, has been dispatched off the coast of Iran to ���monitor��� the situation. Of course��.
BOMBERS TAKE-OFF IS CALLED PERFECT; Daves Dream Has a Rainbow for Background--Crew Fresh After Five Hours Sleep
KAWAJALEIN, Marshall Islands, July 1 (AP)--Major Woodrow P. Swancutt piloted the atom-bomber Daves Dream to a perfect take-off at 5:53 A.M. today, Bikini time (1:53 P.M. Sunday, Eastern Standard Time).. Reptd aboard Bikini atom bomb carrier plane
Corrections
An article on June 11 about the high-tech United States Army base on the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean misstated the location of Bikini Atoll. It lies about 200 miles northwest of the Kwajalein Atoll, not east. The article also misstated the size of the island of Ebeye. It is slightly more than one-tenth of a square mile, not three square miles.. Correction of June 11 article on high-tech United States Army base on Marshall Islands in Pacific Ocean regarding location of Bikini Atoll
An Island Chief Talks of Old Ways and Moon Trips
ENEWETAK, Marshall Islands Visits with Pacific islanders always seem to make a deep impression on the socalled modern mind.. Enewetak Chief Johanes Peter comments on return; illus (S)
For Pacific Islanders, Hopes and Troubles in Arkansas
Thousands of Marshall Islanders have settled in northwestern Arkansas, where they find steady incomes but face health and cultural problems.. Thousands of Marshall Islanders have settled in northwestern Arkansas, seeking steady incomes while fleeing the disease and poverty that are rampant in their home country; Marshallese face strong cultural barriers to integration in the United States, and have had difficulty obtaining health care.
MARSHALL ISLANDS move to shake up shipping on emissions
ANALYSIS: As the worlds third biggest ship registry, the Marshall Islands have clout in maritime circles and could push through emissions curbs.
Marshall Islands move to shake up shipping on emissions
In UN climate circles, the Marshall Islands is mostly known as one of those states that will be swamped by rising sea levels. Its negligible contribution to greenhouse gas emissions makes its heartfelt pleas for ambitious action all too easy for bigger.
Salvadoran Who Told of Survival at Sea Flies Home
Jose Salvador Alvarenga, who washed ashore in the Marshall Islands, returned to El Salvador but seemed too overwhelmed to talk about the 13 months he said he had spent adrift.. Jose Salvador Alvarenga, Salvadoran shark fisherman who told authorities he spent 13 months adrift in the Pacific Ocean before washing ashore in the Marshall Islands, returns home to El Salvador; authorities and experts are greeting his story with awe and skepticism, because there is no record of anyone surviving that long adrift at sea.
Marshall Islands offer plan to green vast shipping fleet - RTCC
The Marshall Islands is exploring ways to make the vast fleet of vessels that carry its flag adopt greener technologies and emit lower levels of greenhouse gases. In a statement foreign minister Tony de Brum said he backed a��.
And the Colonies Dwindle
For most Americans, colonialism ended with the great Declaration signed with defiant optimism 207 years ago today. But American colonialism is still alive and well - if generally forgotten - on 2,000 Micronesian islands strewn over 3 million square miles of the Pacific. It hasnt been a brilliant chapter. So theres the more reason to welcome the news that this embarrassing affair is finally ending.
MARSHALL ISLANDS challenges nuclear powers
In April last year, the government of the Marshall Islands announced it would be taking nine nations ��� China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Britain and the US ��� to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague over.
Mexico: 2 Starved to Death in Epic Sea Voyage
Three Mexican fisherman who survived for nine months as their small disabled boat drifted across the Pacific tossed two other men overboard after they died of starvation, said Miguel Gutiérrez, an official at Mexico’s Foreign Ministry. The fishermen were rescued last week by a Taiwanese trawler near the Marshall Islands, more than 5,000 miles from the Mexican fishing village of San Blas, where they left for what was supposed to be a routine shark fishing trip last November. They stayed alive by eating raw birds and fish and drinking rain water, but the two who died “refused to eat,” Mr. Gutiérrez said. He said one man died in January and the other in early February. The trawler that found the survivors is expected to return to port in the Marshall Islands on Monday. The Mexicans will then be given medical checks and flown home.
U.S. Navy Was Obligated To Prevent Iranian Agression.
The vessel is the M/V Maersk Tigris from Denmark; it sails under the Marshal Islands flag. It was intercepted by Iranian navy patrol ships earlier today. After the interception, the ship sent a distress call at which point it was��.
US report: Chronic government corruption in MARSHALL ISLANDS
MAJURO ��� Prison conditions, government corruption and domestic violence are the main human rights problems in the Marshall Islands, according to the latest Human Rights Report issued Friday by the U.S. State Department. ���The most significant human .
A US Navy destroyer is responding to a distress call after Iran seized a.
The ship was traveling through an internationally recognized shipping lane and flying the flag of the Marshall Islands, a Pacific island nation. Now a US destroyer, the USS Farragut, is being deployed to the Persian Gulf in an attempt to assist the.
Iran fires at, boards Marshall Islands cargo ship; U.S. sending defense
Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, similar to an Iranian coast guard, boarded a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo vessel Tuesday morning after firing shots at the ship, prompting the U.S. military to send a ship and plane to the vessel.
The Atomic Tests; Chairman Vinsons Concern About Ships, Security Factor Pose Issues for Navy
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29--Representative Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, the owner of the Navy, has put a spoke in the service plans for the atomic bomb tests; and other troubles swirled about the shoulders of Vice Admiral W. H.P. Blandy, commander of Joint.. Bird lover complaints against atom bomb test, Bikini Atoll, cited
US Vaporized MARSHALL ISLANDS, Performed Human Experimentation On Natives
���Nuclear Savage��� is a recent documentary film that explores American nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands, 1946-1958, and particularly the secret Project 4.1: an American experiment in exposing Pacific Islanders to overdoses of radiation .
US Vaporized Marshall Islands, Performed Human.
Investigative journalist William Boardmans findings on US vaporization of Marshall Islands and human experimentation on Marshall Islands native ���savages���, as they were classed by US media: ���Nuclear Savage��� is a recent��.
Middle East Updates / Pentagon: Iran forces boarded MARSHALL ISLANDS-flagged.
Middle East Updates / Pentagon: Iran forces boarded Marshall Islands-flagged ship; no U.S. citizens on board. At least 15 killed in heavy fighting between Houthis, tribesmen in Yemen; ISIS has killed more than 2,150 non-combatants in Syria since June, .
Amid Applause, Caution Urged on Missile Defense
The United States military has succeeded for only the second time in shooting down an intercontinental ballistic missile, but Pentagon officials warned today that much more development would be needed before the technology could reliably destroy real weapons. A prototype interceptor fired from Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands demolished a dummy warhead 140 miles above the Pacific late Saturday night, scoring the first hit for the Pentagons missile defense program since October 1999. In between, there were two failed tests that raised doubts about the costly programs future.. Defense Dept succeeds for only second time in shooting down intercontinental ballistic missile, but military officials warn much more development is needed before technology can reliably destroy real weapons; prototype interceptor fired from Kwajalein atoll in Marshall Islands demolishes dummy warhead 140 miles above Pacific Ocean, scoring first hit for missile defense program since October 1999; photo (M)
Iranian forces board Marshall Islands-flagged ship in Gulf: Pentagon
WASHINGTON - Iranian forces boarded a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf on Tuesday after patrol boats fired warning shots across its bow and ordered it deeper into Iranian waters as it was traveling through the Strait of Hormuz, the.
MARSHALL ISLANDS calls for new global target to cut shipping.
In a submission to the International Maritime Organization, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, currently the worlds third largest shipping registry, has called for the setting of a new global target for reducing greenhouse gas��.
SOME HIGH PRAISE FOR NEW ISSUES
LEAD: THE glamour of ancient whaling ships and the excitement of manned spacecraft are featured on recant sets from the Marshall Islands. The tiny nation in the western Pacific Ocean is administered by the United States as part of the United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific. Although the United States Postal Service carries mail to and from its shores, the Marshall Islands have been issuing stamps since 1984.
The US and the Marshall Islands are trying to figure out how.
Officials from the United States and the Marshall Islands are discussing the way ahead after Iranian patrol boats forcibly diverted a cargo ship flying a Marshall Islands flag into an anchorage in Iranian waters, the Pentagon��.
Why Isnt Everyone Talking About The MARSHALL ISLANDS?
The Republic of the Marshall Islands is part of Micronesia, and history buffs will recognize it from World War II (the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, anyone?). Its also known for U.S. nuclear testing at such infamous sites as Bikini Atoll.
Climate change has arrived warns Marshall Islands foreign.
Intense tropical storms are the ���new norm��� in the Pacific, according to Marshall Islands foreign minister. Tony de Brum tweeted his comments after flying from his capital Majuro to Guam to witness the damage caused by��.
Press Releases: The MARSHALL ISLANDS National Day
On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I offer my warmest congratulations to the citizens of the Republic of the Marshall Islands on the 36th anniversary of your nations independence this May 1. Our two countries share a.
Stories from quarantine: Reporters tested for radiation in the MARSHALL ISLANDS
MAJURO, Marshall Islands ��� At first, quarantine hadnt sounded so bad. A day and night at the Marshall Islands finest (and only) resort. A pool, a gym, a beauty salon. All meals included. A gorgeous view of the lagoon. Optimistically, we pictured a.
Iran seizes Marshall Island-flagged merchant ship - Legal.
The Maersk vessel is a Marshall Island-flagged ship which means its an American protectorate. According to the Department of State, ���the United States has full authority and responsibility for security and defense of the��.