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WILL US GO TO WAR WITH CHINA OVER SOUTH CHINA SEA? BEIJING SHOULD BE GIVEN 'NO ACCESS' TO ISLANDS IN DISPUTED REGION, REX TILLERSON SAYS
Will US Go To War With China Over South China Sea? Beijing Should Be Given 'No Access' To Islands In Disputed Region, Rex Tillerson Says... READ MORE›
CHINA CAN'T HAVE ACCESS TO SOUTH CHINA SEA ISLES
China Can't Have Access to South China Sea Isles, Says Tillerson... READ MORE›
TILLERSON SAYS BEIJING MUST BE DENIED ACCESS TO SOUTH CHINA SEA ISLES IT HAS FORTIFIED
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state set a course for a potentially serious confrontation with Beijing on Wednesday, saying C... READ MORE›
'NO ACCESS': REX TILLERSON SETS COLLISION COURSE WITH BEIJING IN SOUTH CHINA SEA
Tillerson, like Trump, is shaping up to taking a much more hawkish stance with China on the South China Sea and indeed more broadly, Townshend added... READ MORE›
WILL ARCTIC TRADE PROMPT CHINA TO BUILD AN 'ICE-WATER NAVY'?
In addition to Canada, the Arctic takes in the northern reaches of Russia, Alaska, Greenland an autonomous Danish territory and Scandinavia... READ MORE›
CHINA SHOULD BE DENIED ACCESS TO SOUTH CHINA SEA ISLANDS
Trump secretary of state nominee China should be denied access to South China Sea islands... READ MORE›
JAPAN, S KOREA SCRAMBLE JETS AFTER CHINA FLIES BOMBERS
Japan and South Korea say Chinese military planes flew over East China Sea and the Sea of Japan for hours on Monday... READ MORE›
BRUCE ARENA COULDN'T BEAR THE THOUGHT OF U.S. SOCCER MISSING THE WORLD CUP
Bruce Arena, during his first stint leading the U.S. men's national team... READ MORE›
SAUDI POLICE KILL 2 ISLAMIC STATE SUSPECTS IN GUN BATTLE
Two suspected Islamic State extremists have been shot dead by police in Riyadh, authorities in Saudi Arabia said... READ MORE›
THIS RUSSIAN CITY SAYS: 'DON'T CALL US SIBERIA'
Yekaterinburg explains the difference between Urals and Siberian culture... READ MORE›
18 OF COUNTRY'S HIGHEST PAID CEOS WORK FOR CALGARY-BASED COMPANIES
Top calgary boss, hunter harrison at canadian pacific railway, paid 19.9m... READ MORE›
TRUMP CLAIM ON N. KOREAN NUKES MAY UNDERESTIMATE PROGRAM
North Korea has an arsenal of short-range Scuds and mid-range Rodong missiles, and some South Korean experts believe those can already be armed with nukes... READ MORE›
COMMENT: DISENTANGLING AID, TRADE, DIPLOMACY AND POVERTY
The M4DI promotes mining as a vehicle for 'sustainable' development and provides an opportunity for Australian mining companies to showcase themselves as best practice companies... READ MORE›
KAHNAWAKE LAYS ITS LAST WW II VET TO REST
Patton was the community's last surviving World War II veteran... READ MORE›
REVELLERS GATHER EARLY FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATIONS
Huge crowds gather for New Year's Eve celebrations as famed Sydney Harbour Bridge is set to explode in colour... READ MORE›
TURNBULL DANCES DURING SYDNEY CHANUKAH SERVICE
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has danced with members of the Jewish community while celebrating the seventh night of Chanukah in Sydney... READ MORE›
CHINA CALLS ON THE UNITED STATES TO BAN VISIT FROM TAIWANESE LEADER TSAI ING-WEN
SHARE Link Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen speaks with US President-elect Donald Trump... READ MORE›
CHINA URGES US TO BLOCK TAIWAN PRESIDENT TSAI ING-WEN FROM STOPOVER
China's foreign ministry repeated a previous call for the US not to allow the transit and not send any wrong signals to Taiwan independence forces ... READ MORE›
SINGAPORE DEFAULTS SEEN AS BELLWETHER FOR 2017 ASIA DISTRESS
Singapore's commodities-related defaults could turn out to be the canary in the mine... READ MORE›
ABE COMMEMORATES WWII DEAD AT PEARL HARBOR[1]
Abe became the first Japanese prime minister to visit the memorial, a centerpiece of the historic site... READ MORE›
WITHOUT OBAMA ABES APPROACH TO US-JAPAN TIES MAY BE TESTED
But the alliance with the United States remains the bedrock of Japan's security, and none of its leaders are currently considering any other significant alternative... READ MORE›
CHINA DEPLOYS AIRCRAFT CARRIER TO DISPUTED SOUTH CHINA SEA
China claims the South China Sea as its own despite objections from neighboring countries and the United States... READ MORE›
SUPER TYPHOON HEADS FOR CHRISTMAS DAY BLOW TO PHILIPPINES
A powerful typhoon was heading for a Christmas Day collision with the central Philippines... READ MORE›
WHAT WILL BE THE BIG ENVIRONMENT EVENTS IN 2017?
The global climate debate will be dominated by whether the president-elect Donald Trump withdraws the US from the Paris global agreement to reduce emissions... READ MORE›
CHINAA??S FIRST AIRCRAFT CARRIER HEADS FOR WESTERN PACIFIC
BEIJING -- China's first aircraft carrier has set off for the Western Pacific for an open-sea training exercise, the Defense Ministry said... READ MORE›
SUPER TYPHOON HEADS FOR CHRISTMAS DAY BLOW TO PHILIPPINES
A powerful typhoon was heading for a Christmas Day collision with the central Philippines... READ MORE›
JAPAN IN RECORD MILITARY SPENDING AMID CHINESE TENSIONS
Rising tension with China over disputed islands in the East China Sea has led to Japan's coastguard budget being raised to 210bn yen 1.8bn next year... READ MORE›
B.C. WOMAN TRIES TO SMUGGLE HER CAT INTO NEW ZEALAND
He said foreign cats could bring with them ticks and diseases that aren't present in New Zealand... READ MORE›
ACCUSED COKE BABE FROM INSTAGRAMMED ROUND-THE-WORLD DRUG RUN SOBS IN COURT
However, lawyer Ragni Mathur argued that Roberge was unaware of the cocaine in her friend Lagace's luggage... READ MORE›
ARCTIC OUTBREAK, THEN LA NINA WARMING IN NORTH AMERICA
With holes in the Arctic Sea ice weakening, the jet stream - a pool of freezing air that formed near the North Pole... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Pacific
SOUTH KOREA REVEALS IT HAS A PLAN TO ASSASSINATE KIM JONG UN
It would involve surgical missile attacks, exclusive special warfare units and an ability to strike North Korea's leadership if South Korea feels threatened by nuclear attack... READ MORE›
EARTHQUAKE JOLTS NEW ZEALAND; TSUNAMI WARNING ISSUED
New Zealand emergency services warned that a tsunami was possible and told people near the coast of the South Island to move to higher ground... READ MORE›
STRONGEST HURRICANE ON RECORD HEADS FOR MEXICO
At 8 a.m., Hurricane Patricia was 145 miles southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico, moving to the north-northwest at 12 mph, the Hurricane Center said... READ MORE›
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY: WHY ARE MILLIONS OF TREES DYING ACROSS THE COUNTRY?
When his grandfather grew up near Philadelphia, he said, gigantic chestnut trees towered over eastern forests... READ MORE›
PEARL HARBOR IS THE BIRTHPLACE OF 'GREATEST GENERATION'
Seventy-five years ago on Dec. 7, 1941, a surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Honolulu stunned military commanders... READ MORE›
BEIJING 'SERIOUSLY CONCERNED' AFTER TRUMP QUESTIONS 'ONE CHINA' POLICY
China 'seriously concerned' after Donald Trump questions 'one China' policy... READ MORE›
CHINAS GLOBAL DESIRES LOANS AND STRINGS ATTACHED
Few of the Chinese workers speak Spanish, and they live separately from their Ecuadorean counterparts... READ MORE›
GERMANY DAUNTED BY GREAT EXPECTATIONS AS OBAMA PASSES BATON TO MERKEL
Some fear Germany may struggle to assume America's status as torchbearer for liberal democracy after Trump victory in US... READ MORE›
WORLD IS ABOUT TO FIND OUT WHAT DONALD TRUMP REALLY BELIEVES
On Wednesday, Mr. Putin seemed to return that sentiment, sensing his opportunity and saying he looked forward to restoring fully fledged relations with the United States... READ MORE›
WHALING NATIONS BLOCK SOUTH ATLANTIC SANCTUARY PLANS
Japan and other pro-whaling nations have defeated a proposal to create an sanctuary for whales in the South Atlantic... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP IN CHARGE: THE CONSIDERABLE CLOUT OF THE PRESIDENT-ELECT
The government, though, is also going to grind down Donald Trump... READ MORE›
NEW ZEALAND HIT BY SECOND STRONG QUAKE
An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude has hit New Zealand's South Island, hours after an initial quake killed two people... READ MORE›
WARMING OF OCEANS DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE IS UNSTOPPABLE, SAY US SCIENTISTS
Warming of oceans due to climate change is unstoppable, say US scientists... READ MORE›
NEW BALANCE BURNED FOR PRAISING TRUMP'S TRADE STANCE
People Set Fire To Their New Balance Shoes After Company Praises Trump's Trade Stance... READ MORE›
NEW BALANCE CREATED ITS PR CRISIS. NEO-NAZIS AREN'T HELPING
New Balance operates five factories in Massachusetts and Maine, where it manufactures or assembles more than 4 million pairs of shoes each year... READ MORE›
OVER 1,000 AFRICAN SKULLS IN BERLIN ARE A REMINDER OF EUROPE'S DARK COLONIAL HISTORY
According to Deutsche Welle, ARD identified about 1,000 skulls that originated from what is now Rwanda and about 60 from Tanzania... READ MORE›
TSUNAMI WARNINGS AFTER 7.8 QUAKE STRIKES OFF SOLOMON ISLANDS' COAST
Another earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit 66km west of Kirakira, Solomon Islands, according to USGS... READ MORE›
POWERFUL EARTHQUAKE HITS ECUADOR; DOZENS KILLED
A major earthquake hit Ecuador's central coast, killing dozens as it buckled homes and knocked out power hundreds of miles away, authorities said... READ MORE›
THE GREAT BARRIER REEF: A CATASTROPHE LAID BARE
Climate change is the greatest threat facing the Great Barrier Reef and other coral reefs around the world... READ MORE›
A WORLD OF TROUBLE FOR DONALD TRUMP
Since World War II, the United States has sought to prevent nuclear war and the expansion of nuclear arsenals... READ MORE›
'NEW ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE REALITY' AS EMISSIONS HIT SYMBOLIC THRESHOLD
Around two-thirds of the warming effect, known as radiative forcing, by long-lived greenhouse gases comes from carbon dioxide... READ MORE›
SCIENTISTS SAY A DRAMATIC WORLDWIDE CORAL BLEACHING EVENT IS NOW UNDERWAY
Coral reefs are expected to see ocean temperatures that can lead to bleaching sometime this year... READ MORE›
PACIFIC ISLANDS MAKE LAST-DITCH PLEA TO WORLD BEFORE PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE TALKS
Children here in the Pacific talk about climate change like children elsewhere talk about school or TV... READ MORE›
HOW HUNTING WITH WOLVES HELPED HUMANS OUTSMART THE NEANDERTHALS
Modern humans formed an alliance with wolves soon after we entered Europe, argues Shipman... READ MORE›
WORLD'S DEEPEST FISH FOUND IN PACIFIC OCEAN'S MARIANA TRENCH
Video World's deepest fish found in Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench... READ MORE›
WORLD HERITAGE FORESTS BURN AS GLOBAL TRAGEDY UNFOLDS IN TASMANIA
It concluded that lightning fires were now the main threat to the survival of the world heritage area... READ MORE›
CYCLONE PAM LEAVES MANY OF VANUATU POPULATION HOMELESS
Related Stories Vanuatu's president has told the BBC many of his people are homeless after the monster cyclone that ravaged the Pacific island nation on Saturday... READ MORE›
CANADA WILL TAX CARBON EMISSIONS TO MEET PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT TARGETS
Prime minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement in parliament as debate started over whether Canada should ratify the Paris accord on climate change... READ MORE›
CHINA MAY GIVE FILIPINO FISHERMEN ACCESS TO SCARBOROUGH
China has overlapping claims in the South China Sea with Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam... READ MORE›
NORTH KOREA THREATENS PREEMPTIVE NUCLEAR STRIKE
Joint exercises prompt new nuclear threat from north korea... READ MORE›
Related News Headlines : Pacific
ONE IN FIVE PACIFIC ISLANDERS WOULD MOVE TO AUSTRALIA UNDER NEW MIGRATION PROPOSAL
Under the proposal, Pacific Islanders could move to Australia through a similar pathway to that which is currently enjoyed by New Zealanders... READ MORE›
SO YOU WANT TO MOVE TO AUSTRALIA? HERE'S A HOW-TO GUIDE
Migrants can apply for permanent residency in Australia under various different visas... READ MORE›
EUROPEAN UNION COULD RATIFY THE DEAL WEDNESDAY
As of Monday, 62 out of 197 countries had ratified the Paris Agreement, accounting for 51.89 percent of the Earth's total greenhouse gas emissions... READ MORE›
PACIFIC ISLANDS NATIONS CONSIDER WORLD'S FIRST TREATY TO BAN FOSSIL FUELS
Their willingness to consider a Pacific climate treaty shows much-needed leadership on the world's most pressing environmental challenge, she said... READ MORE›
2 DEGREES CELSIUS: A CRITICAL NUMBER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
Framework Convention on Climate Change said in a statement... READ MORE›
HEADLINES 'EXAGGERATED' CLIMATE LINK TO SINKING OF PACIFIC ISLANDS
The major misunderstanding stems from the conflation of sea-level rise with climate change... READ MORE›
AFTER THE PACIFIC OCEAN SWALLOWS VILLAGES AND FIVE SOLOMON ISLANDS, A STUDY BLAMES CLIMATE CHANGE
At the same time that the sea level rises, climate change has brought devastating floods to the Solomon Islands... READ MORE›
LEADERS ROLL UP SLEEVES ON CLIMATE BUT EXPERTS SAY PLANS DONT PACK A WALLOP
After a quarter-century of failed diplomatic efforts, signs are growing that nations have turned a corner in their political willingness to tackle climate change... READ MORE›
2015 EARTHS HOTTEST YEAR ON RECORD US AGENCIES
This is also the largest margin by which the annual global temperature record has been broken, it said... READ MORE›
CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT OUR PRIORITY
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said financial challenges will prevent Ireland from making deep cuts in emissions from our agriculture sector to help prevent dangerous climate change... READ MORE›
PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS ACCUSE AUSTRALIA OF FAILING TO 'BAT FOR NEIGHBOURS'
Australia and New Zealand refused to sign on to the 1.5 degree goal at this year's Pacific Islands Forum... READ MORE›
PACIFIC ISLANDS BEAR BRUNT OF CLIMATE CHANGE, SAYS ACTIVISTS
I'm one of those awareness group of people who are very much concerned with our people, said Touraine Elaine Marsters from The Cook Islands... READ MORE›