The German U-boat U-853 was sunk off the coast of Point Judith, Rhode Island, in May 1945, marking the last U.S. merchant ...

The broader Indo-Pacific strategy articulated by the US and its allies has emphasized a “free and open Indo-Pacific,” a rules-based order and resistance to China’s expansionist ambitions, but Trump’s ...

Investment in regional projects is allowing China to expand its influence in the South Pacific at the U.S.'s expense, ...

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...

"It's an honour to be part of it," said Mr Owers, who started the job in 2023, adding it was a first step towards the team joining FIFA and competing in World ... the map." The Marshall Islands ...

Until recently, the Marshall Islands was the only United ... Americans first occupied the islands in 1944 during World War II, and nearly eight decades of close association with the U.S. since ...

The flag of the Republic of the Marshall Islands flies at half-mast aboard the ... s ongoing legal proceedings with the US and at the UN.[2] The trip also marks 40 years since Greenpeace’s ...

Since World War II, the U.S. has treated the Marshall Islands, along with Micronesia and Palau, much like territories. On the Marshall Islands, the U.S. has developed military, intelligence and ...

Between 1946-58, the U.S. conducted 67 known nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands that combined were more than 7,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima ...

In the summer of 1945, with the fight against the Axis powers in Europe over and the war in the Pacific nearing ... he departed for Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the first stop of ...

Several World War II shipwrecks in Australian waters ... risk overseas in the Federated States of Micronesia, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands and Papua New Guinea. "These wrecks are changing ...