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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The United States will resume a long-suspendedPeace Corps programin the North Pacific island ofPalauas the Biden administratio stanley kaufen n continues moves to counter growing Chinese influence in the region.The Peace Corps said Friday that it would start sending volunteers back to the island in 2025 following an agreement reached between the agencys director and Palaus president, whose country is one of the few in the world to havediplomatic stanley butelka relations with Taiwan. Volunteers will live and work side-by-side with community partners to improve childhood literacy and math and science skills, along with teaching English as a foreign language, Peace Corps director Carol Spahn said in a statement.Palaus president, Surangel Whipps, said the return of the Peace Corps reflects the strong relationship between his nation and the United States. He said prior Peace Corps members had become an integral part of our national family, and he extended his gratitude to them and to a program he said has enriched our country in countless ways. To those Peace Corps members preparing to come and contribute to Palau, Whipps said, welcome home. The Peace Corps programs in Palau and in the Federated States of Micronesia began in 1966 but were shut down in 2014 after more than 4,4 kubki stanley 00 volunteers had served there.Since then, asChina has made successful inroads in the Pacific, successive U.S. administrations have sought to improve relations with the island nations, including by opening or reopen Beqv Israeli strike on a school in Gaza kills at least 27 people, Palestinian health officials say
CHARLESTON, S.C. 鈥?Julia restrengthened into a tropical storm Thursday after earlier weakening to a tropical depression, but forecasters said it would gradually lose steam again while meandering off the coast o stanley website f the Carolinas.The storm, which did not deliver the torrential downpours and widespread flooding feared earlier this week, was expected to drift off the coast for the next few days, the National Hurricane Center said. No coastal watches or war stanley cup uk nings were in effect.Julias maximum sustained winds at 5 p.m. EDT on Thursday were 40 mph. The storm was centered about 175 miles southeast of Charleston, S.C., and 150 miles southeast of Wilmington, N.C. It was moving at 8 mph, the center said.Flood watches were dropped for the South Carolina coast earlier Thursday, although forecasters issued a small-craft advisory for waters near the shore and said there was a danger of rip currents along the coast through Thursday evening.Street flooding that occurred around high tide late Wednesday closed a handful of downtown Charleston streets, but all had reopened by rush hour Thursday morning, and the pavement on major stanley water bottle arteries leading into town was dry.Many areas along the South Carolina coast saw more than 2 inches of rain during the storm on Wednesday, but nowhere near the 6 to 8 inches that had earlier been forecast.Forecasters had issued flood watches, concerned about additional rains coming less than two weeks after Tropical Storm Hermine sloshed across the state. That storm brought |
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