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Bus or train passengers in Switzerland caught without a valid ticket face being listed on a national register of transport fraudsters, under a bill approved by the senate in Bern on Monday....

Running in the rain: John F. Kennedy Islanders and George Washington Geckos runners take off from the starting line during an Independent Interscholastic Athletic Association of Guam Cross-Country League meet at the JFK campus, yesterday....

iConnect invested more than $5 million in its new network, a company representative said yesterday....

Employers can't recover wage overpayments from employee paychecks without the workers' written consent, a Guam Department of Labor administrator said recently....

The U.S. Coast Guard yesterday announced it has suspended the search for a fisherman who was reported missing 146 miles southwest of Chuuk State, in the Federated States of Micronesia. "U.S. Coast Guard Sector Guam received authorization to suspend search efforts from U.S. Coast Guard District 14 after spending five days coordinating search efforts for the missing fisherman. Notifications were made...

A 71-year-old man was charged Saturday with sexually assaulting two girls, one of whom he allegedly molested over a span of at least five years....

The U.S. Navy, beginning Oct. 1, will make it easier for military members, dependents and retirees to bring guests on base when it implement's the military's "Trusted Traveler" procedure....

The Legislature is waiting for plans to be approved so it can move forward with the restoration of the former Guam Congress building in Hagåtña....

A woman was charged with third-degree robbery Saturday after allegedly stealing about $20 from a Sinajana gas station....

New dad Mark Palacios was all smiles yesterday as he waited for his wife and newborn daughter outside Guam Memorial Hospital's labor and delivery ward....

Although two men have been arrested in connection with a spree of wire thefts across the island, victims of the thefts are still coping with the damage....

[SPS]Shaheed Hafed -Polisario Front called on the United Nations' Security Council to ensure the protection of Sahrawi detainees in Moroccan prisons, underlining their dramatic situation, in a communiqué issued at the end of the ninth session of the Polisario Front's national secretariat....

[SPS]La Paz -The participants at Sao Paulo Forum, attended by 60 political parties and social movements from all Latin American countries, called on the region's governments to recognize the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) and to establish diplomatic relations with it....

[SPS]Boujdour -Elements of the Moroccan police assaulted Wednesday young Sahrawi Sidibrahim Lehcini in the main street in the occupied city of Boujdour, according to Sahrawi human rights sources....

[SPS]El Aaiun -The two Sahrawi associations of human rights, the Collective of Sahrawi Human rights defenders (CODESA) and Sahrawi Association of Victims of Grave Human Rights Violations Committed by the Moroccan State (ASVDH) met the last week with representatives of the embassies of the United States and Netherlands in Rabat....

[SPS]Shaheed Hafed -The Staff of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army (SPLA) reiterated the readiness of the units of the SPLA to defend any terrorist threat, in accordance with the commitments of the Saharawi State in its capacity as a full member of the AU, according to a statement sanctioning the work of a meeting of the SPLA General Staff held Sunday under the chairmanship of the President of the...

[SPS]Shaheed Hafed -The United Nations will pursue its responsibility to enable the Saharawi people to exercise their right to self-determination through a free, democratic, and fair referendum under international supervision, confirmed the Coordinator with the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), Mr. M'hamed Khadad, in a statement Saturday to SPS....

[HRInfo]The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), issued the report of Lawyers for Democracy Network- Fifth Report to Monitor the Democratic Path in August 2014...

ST THOMAS, USVI -- On Friday, Governor John de Jongh received notification from the Office of Insular Areas of the Department of the Interior that the government of the US Virgin Islands would shortly receive $165 million for estimated rum excise tax cover-over for fiscal year 2015....

It has been six months since Malaysia Airlines flight 370 vanished over the Indian Ocean and yet the mystery endures. With 1,000 flight paths still to investigate, a new year-long search operation will be launched, according to the coordinating task force. ...