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Apatang OKs zoning update for auto businesses
Marianas Variety
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David M. Apatang GOVERNOR David M. Apatang on Tuesday approved House Local Bill 24-5, which amends the Saipan Zoning Law to clearly define automobile sales and service businesses in relation to certain zoning districts. Authored by Rep. John Paul...
Tsunami updates live: Easter and Galápagos Islands evacuate coastal areas as tsunami warnings rattle Pacific
The Guardian
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July 30, 2025
Easter and Galápagos Islands evacuate coastal areas as tsunami warnings rattle PacificAuthorities ordered evacuations on Ecuador and Chile’s Pacific islands on Wednesday, after the massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake triggered tsunami warnings across...
Rene Batallones is SGA June Ace
Marianas Variety
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Rene Battalones RENE Batallones has made his yearly return to the list of elite players in the 2025 season of the Saipan Golf Association, winning the June Ace of the Month title after shooting a net score of 63 during the monthly tournament at...
Kamchatka earthquake among largest in modern history
AzerNews
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July 31, 2025
An 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia. The tsunami that followed flooded part of the city of Severo-Kurilsk. A state of emergency was declared in the Kamchatka region. The United States Geological Survey...
NMI U20 women gear up for AFC challenge
Marianas Variety
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THE Northern Mariana Islands Football Association hosted a send-off ceremony for the NMI U20 Women’s National Team at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium on Friday, as the team begins preparations for the upcoming AFC U20 Women’s Asian Cup 2026...
Woman murdered by ex made THIRTEEN chilling calls to police but no-one came to help
The Mirror
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August 2, 2025
It was a murder which shocked Britain - when a domestic abuse victim, who had already made nine desperate calls to the police, was murdered by her violent ex while begging for help again - for the fifth time that night. Janbaz Tarin, 21, stabbed...
ASEDA signs MOU that could lead to deep sea nodule collaboration
Samoa News
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July 31, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A leading U.S. innovator in rare earth element (REE) and critical mineral refining, announced yesterday the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the American Samoa Economic Development Authority (ASEDA),...
Ernie Els calls for The Open to return to Muirfield in 2028
Gazette and Herald
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Muirfield is one of The Open’s iconic venues and has hosted golf’s original major 16 times, behind only St Andrews on the current rota of 10 courses the event goes to. But it has not been seen since 2013, due in part to a row between The R&A and...
Alleged PUA fraudsters want trial pushed back; 100,000 pages of documents confidential
Pacific Daily News
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Defendants indicted for allegedly participating in a $1.9 million Pandemic Unemployment Assistance fraud ring want to delay trial so attorneys can sift through nearly 100,000 pages of documents produced by the government. The court has also agreed...
DPHSS gets $39M for IT modernization
The Guam Daily Post
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The Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services was awarded $39 million in Advanced Planning Document, or APD, funds from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS. An APD is a written plan outlining how a state (or...
King-Hinds urges DOD to align Indo-Pacific strategy with economic opportunity in NMI
Marianas Variety
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Kimberlyn King-Hinds WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Congresswoman Kimberlyn King-Hinds has called on the Department of Defense to ensure that its Indo-Pacific strategy reflects not only a security presence in the Northern Mariana Islands but also...
Guam isn't tsunami-proof. 'We have just been very lucky,' meteorologist says
The Pacific Island Times
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July 30, 2025
Tumon Bay/Photo by Mar-Vic Cagurangan/Pacific Island Times By Jayvee Vallejera and Mar-Vic Cagurangan The magnitude-8.8 earthquake in Russia’s Far East early Wednesday triggered tsunami warnings across a broad section of the Pacific, including...
Roger Daltrey at 81: ‘I’m nervous about making it to the end of this tour’
The Times
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While the irony of Roger Daltrey singing “hope I die before I get old” as he enters his ninth decade has been mined to the point of cliché, nobody could have guessed in the Sixties that this one-time figure of rebellion would be bestowed with a...
U23 team leave for Iraq camp
Gulf Daily News Online
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FOOTBALL – BAHRAIN’S under-23 Olympic football team leave for Iraq today to conduct a week-long overseas training camp. The gathering is being held as part of their preparations for the AFC U23 Asian Cup 2026 Qualifiers, which are scheduled to be...
Si Yuus Maase & thank you
Marianas Variety
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THE people of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands are deeply saddened by the passing of our beloved Governor, the late Arnold Indalecio Palacios, on July 23, 2025. To our First Lady, Wella Palacios, and your family, we extend our...
Flesh hung like ribbons from bones…ghostly figures collapsed, never to rise – inside horrors of WW2 atomic bomb
The Scottish Sun
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August 1, 2025
IT was the day that changed the world for ever – when the first atomic bomb brought Armageddon to Japan. Oscar-winning 2023 film Oppenheimer tells how the world’s most destructive weapon was created. But it does not show the A-bomb being used in...
Quando a França abandonará o atlantismo?
Strategic Culture
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August 1, 2025
Considerando a atual liderança encarnada na figura de Ursula von der Leyen é improvável que a França consiga imprimir à União Europeia uma renovação estratégica Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK. Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su...
EUCON announces first indigenous bachelor’s scholarship recipient: Angeline Orsini
Marianas Variety
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Angeline Orsini, left, with Dr. Christian Wei, EUCON International University president. EUCON photo IN a defining moment for the Northern Mariana Islands’ journey toward community rebuilding and educational revival, EUCON International University...
Tsunami alert triggers mass evacuations across Pacific
The Guardian
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July 30, 2025
In the Pacific territory of Guam shortly before lunchtime on Tuesday, Sam Mabini’s phone began to ping. A tsunami warning had been issued after an 8.8-magnitude quake struck a remote part of the Russian coast. Authorities had put out the alert...
Flock of ducks get escort across busy roads to their nightly nesting spot
The Scottish Sun
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August 1, 2025
A FLOCK of ducks get an escort across busy roads to their nightly nesting spot. Volunteer wardens watch as they waddle from a river to a town centre car park. 4 A flock of ducks get an escort across busy roads to their nightly nesting spotCredit:...