Kiribati
Republic of Kiribati
CAPITAL: Tarawa
FLAG: Above a blue and white heraldic representation of Pacific waters, a golden sun rises against a red background, with a golden frigate bird at the top...
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Kiribati
Kiribati (pronounced kee-ree-bas) is a far-flung nation of islands in the Pacific that straddles the Equator. It also straddled the international date line until Kiribati passed legislation m...
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Kiribati
POPULATION 100,000ROMAN CATHOLIC 53.5 percentKIRIBATI PROTESTANT 39.2 percentBAHA'I 2.4 percentSEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST 1.9 percentMORMON 1.7 percentCHURCH OF GOD, ASSEMBLY OF GOD 1.3 per...
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Area: 811 sq km (313 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 93,600Capital: Government offices on three islets of South TarawaHead of state and government:
President
Anote
Tong
Kiribati
was in the diplo...
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Sydney (dpa) - Australia must abandon the United States and join
all the other developed countries that have signed the Kyoto Protocol
on reducing the greenhouse gases that ...
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Taipei (dpa) - Taiwan's South Pacific allies, fearing being
drowned by rising sea water, are seeking help from Taiwan, a
newspaper said on Friday.
The China T...
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Singapore (dpa) - Nothing is as it used to be on the Carteret
Islands in Papua New Guinea.
Only from a distance does the archipelago appear like a South
Pacif...
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Area: 488 sq km (188 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 20,100Capital: Melekeok (on Babelthuap) from Oct. 1, 2006Head of state and government:
President
Tommy
Remengesau, Jr.
In early September 2006
P...
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Paris (dpa) - A stark warning on global warming was issued in a
much-anticipated report by a top UN panel Friday, planting the blame
squarely on man-made problems and urging...
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(EDS: ADDING QUOTES, DETAILS)
A magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurred Monday in the South Pacific
Ocean off the Solomon Islands, the U.S. Geological Survey said, with
reports from the area of up...
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(EDS: ADDING CONFIRMED DEATH TOLL. QUOTES, DETAILS)
A magnitude 8.0 earthquake followed by a tsunami devastated
parts of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific on Monday, with six
people c...
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(EDS: UPDATING DEATH TOLL, MENTIONING PLACES COVERED BY TSUNAMI
WARNING)
A magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurred Monday in the South Pacific
Ocean off the Solomon Islands, the U.S. Geological Su...
Read more
(EDS: ADDING CONFIRMED DEATH TOLL. QUOTES, DETAILS)
A magnitude 8.0 earthquake followed by a tsunami devastated
parts of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific on Monday, with six
people c...
Read more
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