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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 422

Marshall Islands

A diplomat observes the room at the opening of the 57th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on September 9, 2024. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
October 9, 2024, 10:18 pm
Saudi Arabia narrowly misses out on UN Human Rights Council seat
Riyadh falls seven votes shy of Marshall Islands, losing out on chance to join influential UN body; miss comes as rights group says executions in kingdom at all-time high
By Michelle Nichols and Pesha Magid
Illustrative: This photo released by the US Navy shows the USS Cole in the Gulf of Oman, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. (US Navy via AP)
April 27, 2023, 4:52 pm
Iran seizes oil tanker in Gulf of Oman after alleged collision amid regional tension
Marshall Islands-flagged, Turkey-managed ship had just come from Kuwait and was heading to Texas, US Navy says, noting that Tehran’s actions are ‘contrary to international law’
By Agencies
Picture taken by the US Defense Nuclear Agency in 1980, shows the huge dome built over top of a crater left by one of the 43 nuclear nuclear tests over Runit Island in Enewetak in the Marshall Islands. (GIFF JOHNSON / US DEFENCE NUCLEAR AGENCY / AFP)
May 27, 2019, 1:44 am
On a Pacific island, a nuclear dome left behind by the US begins to crack
‘The coffin is leaking its poison into the surrounding environment,’ warns local official, amid growing fears of radioactive disaster
By Giff Johnson
Neema's Barak Ben Ezer (YouTube screenshot)
March 9, 2019, 3:45 am
Israeli company partners with Marshall Islands to launch digital currency
Neema is working with the tiny island nation to allay US regulatory concerns as well as solve technological and logistical issues, but plans to have coin on offer this year
By AFP
In this Feb. 23, 2018, photo, lawmakers listen to people discuss the pros and cons of creating a digital currency, in Majuro, Marshall Islands. The Marshall Islands is creating its own digital currency in order to raise some hard cash to pay bills and boost the economy. (AP Photo/Hilary Hosia)
March 3, 2018, 11:25 am
Marshall Islands partnering with Israeli company to create virtual money
Pacific island nation said it is the first country in the world to recognize a cryptocurrency as its legal tender
By AP
An island in the Mamanuca Islands group, Fiji. (Wikipedia/Isderion/CC BY-SA)
June 2, 2017, 12:55 pm
Pacific islands accuse US of ‘abandoning’ them to climate change
US will ‘eventually rejoin our struggle because scientific evidence of man-made climate change is well understood,’ says Fiji PM
By AFP
The explosion of the US's first H-bomb at Enewetak Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, November 1, 1952. (AFP/INTERCONTINENTALE/STR/)
October 5, 2016, 3:16 pm
World court rejects epic Marshalls Islands nuclear case
Judges rule tiny Pacific nation can’t sue Britain, India, Pakistan for not stopping arms race while atomic tests devastated its atolls
By Jan Hennop
Aerial view of resort on the Micronesian island of Kosrae. (Courtesy)
July 14, 2016, 3:10 am
Israelis lead race as Micronesian tourism paradise is raffled off, at $49 a ticket
The owners of the Nautilus Resort are moving back to the mainland, but they’re selling the hotel in a rather unusual fashion
By Yaakov Schwartz
Maersk ships in 2014. (photo credit: CC BY-SA kees torn, Flickr)
April 29, 2015, 11:44 pm
Iran harassed US-flagged cargo ship last week, Pentagon says
Revolutionary Guards’ boarding of 2 vessels over five-day period raise concerns about security of shipping lanes in Gulf
By AFP
Illustrative: A US nuclear bomb test at the Marshall Islands, 1954. (Wikicommons/US Department of Energy)
April 24, 2014, 3:49 pm
Tiny Pacific nation sues Israel, others over nukes
Marshall Islands names nine countries in lawsuit for modernizing atomic arsenals instead of disarming
By Cara Anna
Independent footage from the scene of the bombing that killed former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005 (photo credit: screen capture, YouTube)
March 18, 2014, 9:40 am
Nomination of Hariri killing suspect rocks island nation
Marshall Island government survives no-confidence vote brought due to canceled nomination of Lebanese assassination suspect to UNESCO post
By AFP
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