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Virgin Islands Soccer Plays 2025 Outrigger Cup

St. Thomas Source · April 3, 2025

The U.S. Virgin Islands Soccer Federation (USVISF) is pleased to announce that its Senior Men’s National Team will participate in the 2025 Outrigger Cup, an international tournament taking place from August 11–17 at John Brown University in...

USS Iowa Was the Unstoppable Battleship

19FortyFive · March 30, 2025

The USS Iowa was the lead ship of the U.S. Navy’s Iowa-class battleships, a group of four warships built by the United States during World War II. They were explicitly designed to counter the increasingly swift, fast battleships in service with...

71 Swimmers Carry Their Nations’ Flags at Paris 2024 Olympic Opening Ceremony (Full List)

SwimSwam - Texas · July 26, 2024

61 swimmers co-carried their countries’ flags at the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Friday on the Seine in the heart of Paris. Instead of the traditional parade on foot, athletes this year are riding down the Seine on boats...

American Samoa Wrestling Team shines at 2025 Oceania Championships

Samoa News · March 28, 2025

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa National Wrestling Team delivered a historic performance at the 2025 Oceania Wrestling Championships, proudly hosted on home soil for only the second time in the territory’s history. Held at the Gov....

Seashells represent an important chapter of Ardell Johnson's life

The Bemidji Pioneer - Minnesota · December 14, 2024

BEMIDJI — Each seashell in Ardell Johnson’s expansive collection comes with a story. Nearly 50 years after collecting his broad assortment of seashells while working in the Marshall Islands, the boxes of shells have been brought out of storage and...

Covering Climate Migration

Covering Climate Now · April 1, 2025

Welcome to Locally Sourced, a biweekly Covering Climate Now newsletter for journalists working to localize the climate story. Share this newsletter with colleagues and journalism students interested in localizing the climate story. Story Spark:...

Olympic lifters elected at the head of Cook Islands and Samoa NOCs

Pacific News Service ·

Great news coming from Oceania, where two prominent Olympic lifters were elected to the presidency of their respective National Olympic Committees: in Cook Islands, Luisa Peters is the new NOC leader, while in Samoa Jerry Wallwork will be at the...

77 RMI students honored

Marshall Islands Journal · February 12, 2025

President Hilda Heine congratulated 77 students and teachers who were awarded the fifth Taiwan-RMI Presidents scholarship at MIR’s Melele Room last Wednesday. Minister of Education, Sports and Training Gerald Zackios told the recipients that their...

Bollinger Shipyards Hosts 9/11 Steel Transfer Ceremony with US Coast Guard Officials and Local Leaders

gCaptain · April 1, 2025

Last week, Bollinger Shipyards (“Bollinger”), a leading designer and builder of high-performance military and commercial vessels, hosted a 9/11 steel transfer ceremony at its Lockport facility, where the shipyard received two pieces of steel from...

Pacific Islands News Roundup – Mar. 21-27, 2025

Pacific Islands Report · March 27, 2025

Political Leadership and Regionalism, Peace and Security US Defense Secretary Hegseth: US remains invested in Indo-Pacific amid China’s threats (Pacific Island Times) Cook Islands reaffirm commitment to Pacific-led leadership (Cook Islands News)...

Tate Lecture speaker Condoleezza Rice talks foreign policy, job as Secretary of State

The Daily Campus - Texas · April 1, 2025

On Tuesday, March 27, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice came to SMU as the Tate Lecture speaker. Rice is the director and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a professor in global business and economics at Stanford’s Graduate School...

How the Biden Administration Won Tactically but Failed Strategically in the Red Sea

War on the Rocks · April 2, 2025

For 15 months, the U.S. Navy fought its fiercest battles since at least the Tanker War. The Navy racked up nearly flawless tactical victories in self-defense, defense of merchants, and defense of allied territory against the Houthis, a Yemeni...

Discovering cultures through missionary service

Ke Alaka'i - The Leader · November 29, 2024

Jeremiah Shackleford served in the Washington Kennewick Mission between 2020 and 2022 and said he served many people in Washington from the Marshall Islands. Photo by Bilguun Enkhbaatar From trying fermented food to saying hello to strangers,...

Sailing Totem: One Nice Thing

Cruising World · December 13, 2024

Post-clearance, we’re experiencing anchorages like this. Behan Gifford Our arrival into the Marshall Islands went as smoothly as any, and marked our 50th country and territory since we started cruising. Official clearance wasn’t complete until the...

The Deepening Friendship and Partnership between Kiribati and Australia

Pacific News Service ·

By Ruth Cross Kwansing, Kiribati Minister of Women, Youth, Sport and Social Affairs Last week, our nation welcomed Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles. While the visit was exciting for all of Kiribati, it was particularly significant...

Memorial Day ceremony and parade in Temple remember fallen veterans

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript - New Hampshire · February 6, 2025

Veterans, first-responders, Sea Cadets and marching musicians honored the nation’s and Temple’s fallen in the town’s Memorial Day parade on Sunday. David Quinn, Army National Guard (Ret.), led the procession, which stepped off at noon and stood in...

A ‘Google maps for the sea’, sails and alternative fuels: the technologies steering shipping towards lower emissions – podcast

The Conversation · March 27, 2025

Ships transport around 80% of the world’s cargo. From your food, to your car to your phone, chances are it got to you by sea. The vast majority of the world’s container ships burn fossil fuels, which is why 3% of global emissions come from...

Monthly World News Agenda

Hindustan Times · November 28, 2024

What's happening around the world from Monday, , 2024 to Wednesday, , 2025 Monthly World News Agenda View events updated in real time on AFP Agenda https://agenda.afp.com MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2024 Asia-Pacific MARSHALL ISLANDS - Taiwan President...

Jaluit, Lae win 3×3 tourney

Marshall Islands Journal · October 10, 2024

HILARY HOSIA Mimo Jacklik and Malachi Aneo were named Most Valuable Players during the closing of the 42nd Bank of Marshall Islands 3×3 basketball tournament at the Educational and Cultural Center last week. The two were chosen for their leading...

Arthur J. Perette Jr., 88

The Quincy Sun - Massachusetts · January 23, 2025

Arthur J. Perette Jr., 88, of Braintree, passed away peacefully at home on Monday, January 6, 2025. Born in Quincy, he was affectionately known as Jack to his family and Art to his friends. He grew up in West Quincy with his parents, the late...