This Country’s Top Judges Were All Foreigners. Now They’re Gone. The president’s suspension of five jurists in the Pacific nation of Kiribati highlights the outsize role noncitizen judges play in the region.
Secret Data, Tiny Islands and a Quest for Treasure on the Ocean Floor Mining in parts of the Pacific Ocean was meant to benefit poor countries, but an international agency gave a Canadian company access to prized seabed sites with metals crucial to the green energy revolution.