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WASHINGTON, USA ---The United States wants to continue a criminal data matching scheme for assessing risks of threats that it began with New Zealand in advance of the Rugby World Cup.

WASHINGTON, USA — Arctic Council Ministers from Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the Russian Federation, and the United States yesterday called for taking action “as soon as possible” to phase down HFCs under the Montreal Protocol and for reducing black carbon and methane emissions in the Arctic.

NEW YORK, USA --- The Argentine government has questioned the United Kingdom after its negative vote at the United Nations General Assembly “to place French Polynesia back on the UN list of territories that should be decolonised.” Additionally, the government renewed its claim over the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands ...

NEW YORK, USA ---The United Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to place French Polynesia back on the UN list of territories that should be decolonized and requested the French Government to “facilitate rapid progress […] towards a self-determination process.”

WASHINGTON, USA --- New Zeland Foreign Minister offers US Secretary of State support if Israel-Palestine talks make eventual progress.

SUMMIT COUNTY, USA — An idyllic tropical lagoon threatened by pollution from a tuna cannery is a Pacific Ocean biodiversity hotspot, according to researchers from Nova Southeastern University, who recently surveyed the ocean off Papua New Guinea.

NEW YORK, USA --- The United States thinks the United Nations has a drinking problem.

NEW YORK, USA ---- The Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) have told world leaders there should be more focus on the economic empowerment of women.

NEW YORK, USA --- The importance of strong laws against sexual, domestic and other gender violence was highlighted today as members of parliaments from around the world gathered on the sidelines of the annual session of the United Nations women’s commission on its second day.

NEW YORK, USA--- “I know what it means to lose your house, to be looted. To look a child in the eye and say, 'If they come for me, you need to run'," said the newly appointed United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict. “I know what it ...

BOSTON, USA---- The United State's top military official in the Pacific says the biggest long term security threat in the region is climate change.

WASHINGTON, USA --- The World Bank launched its first Country Partnership Strategy with the Government of the Marshall Islands, beginning its support to strengthen the Pacific Island nation’s economy and reduce poverty.

WASHINGTON, USA --- The World Bank today launched a new four-year strategy for Timor-Leste, following discussions by the Boards of Directors of the Bank and IFC. The new strategy is designed to support the country as it looks to diversify the economy and improve jobs, infrastructure and health and education ...

NEW YORK, USA —The Republic of Nauru, current Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), announced at a recent plenary meeting of Ambassadors from AOSIS countries that the European Union would be providing essential funding to support AOSIS’s advocacy work at the international climate change negotiations.

HAGTNA, Guam --- A Guam senator is urging the island's government to advise people on what to do in the event of a North Korean nuclear attack.

HAGTNA, Guam --- A Guam senator is urging the island's government to advise people on what to do in the event of a North Korean nuclear attack.

NEW YORK, USA --- The United Nations disarmament chief today urged Member States to build confidence and trust with each other by establishing and strengthening global norms on disarmament issues related to nuclear weapons and conventional arms, including by continuing negotiations on a global arms trade treaty.

CHICAGO, USA ---Nineteenth Century tools made from sharks' teeth suggest that two species of shark used to populate the Central Pacific but are no longer present.

NEW YORK, USA ---The State of Kuwait and the Republic of Nauru have established bilateral diplomatic relations with aim of promoting the friendship and mutual cooperation between the two countries at various levels.

SANTA CRUZ, USA -- New computer modeling indicates low-lying Pacific Islands may be underwater sooner than expected, the U.S. Geological Survey finds.

NEW YORK, USA ----A United Nations nutrition report released today shows that progress has been made in recent years in addressing stunting in children, and calls for increased efforts to accelerate a response to a condition that affects some 165 million children across the world.

NEW YORK, USA --- Growth in Asia-Pacific remains subdued due to the impact of persistent weaknesses and uncertainties in the developed economies, the United Nations reported today, urging Governments to implement macroeconomic policies that focus more on inclusivity and sustainable development.

MISSOURI, USA --- Micronesians have come to the United States in larger numbers since 1986. Most settle in nearby Pacific islands, like Guam or Hawaii. But a few come a little farther. To Missouri, for example, where a large Micronesian population has grown up.

NEW YORK, USA --- A G77 High-level Panel of Eminent Personalities will convene in Natadola, Fiji, on 7-9 May 2013 to discuss what additional measures should be adopted to give further momentum to strengthening cooperation between the nations of the South.

NEW YORK, USA ---Delegates from more than 160 countries have agreed on a set of climate change policy measures as part of an ongoing United Nations-led effort to create a new, universal climate accord by 2015 to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) from pre- industrial ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii --- A group of Hawaii fishermen is asking the federal government to remove northern Pacific humpback whales from the endangered species list, saying the population has steadily grown since the international community banned commercial whaling nearly 50 years ago.

NEW YORK, USA --- In an increasingly interconnected world where trillions of dollars worth of goods and services are traded annually, the rabidly expanding market for low-carbon and environmentally friendly products will create new opportunities, the United Nations environmental agency today reported.

NEW YORK, USA --- The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the appointment of Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo of Brazil as the next Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

NEW YORK, USA --- The United Nations today warned that economic losses from disasters have spun out of control and called on the world’s business community to incorporate disaster risk management to their investment strategies to avoid further losses.

With China’s leadership in transition and incoming US Secretary of State John Kerry heading a new foreign policy team in the second Obama Administration, leaders in both countries must face a “frightening array of domestic and foreign policy problems” in managing their vital relationship, long-time senior US diplomat J. Stapleton ...

In his second and final stint at the helm of the world’s most powerful country, President Barack Obama can afford to go for broke. He does not have to deal with any possibility of a re-election and knows this is his opportunity to give his best shot at fixing things ...

Although last year produced agreement about how much money will be paid for US vessels to fish in the Pacific, there are still many hurdles to leap before a new US Pacific tuna treaty arrangement can be approved, say fisheries officials in the Marshall Islands.

The investigation of the United States’ nuclear test legacy in the Marshall Islands by a United Nations Special Rapporteur has for the first time put the issue under a microscope from a human rights perspective.