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The group arrived on the island, which agreed to a request from Washington to resettle them, on Sunday after being held for seven years at the US prison in Cuba. Johnson Toribiong, the president of Palau, met the ex-prisoners at the airport in the middle...
Tags: Palau, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Uighurs, Cuba, Barack Obama, U.S, South Pacific, Pacific Ocean, islanders nation, obama administration
Fresh quake renews tsunami fears for Pacific A huge subsea quake struck the southwest Pacific on Thursday, local time, prompting a tsunami warning for island nations only a week after a deadly wave swept over the Samoa islands, killing around 150 people....
Tags: tsunamis warning, South Pacific, Vanuatu, Pacific Island, islanders nation, tsunamis panic, higher grounds, pacific islanders
Tens of thousands of South Pacific islanders have abandoned their homes in the past two months as huge waves, storm surges, king tides and heavy rains combine to flood coastal villages in several island nations. Fijians were told on Tuesday to move to...