The president’s suspension of five jurists in the Pacific nation of Kiribati highlights the outsize role noncitizen judges play in the region. By Yan Zhuang Until just a few weeks ago ...

Matthieu Rytz is a filmmaker and visual storyteller. The Republic of Kiribati — a nation of islands and atolls in the central Pacific — is facing annihilation. The rising ocean has broken ...

SYDNEY, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Chinese police are working in the remote atoll nation of Kiribati, a Pacific Ocean neighbour of Hawaii, with uniformed officers involved in community policing and a ...

When Kiribati broke ties with Taipei in 2019, it was a blow to Taiwan, despite the Pacific island nation’s small stature on the international stage. Taiwan had already lost six diplomatic allies ...

Not everyone in Kiribati is grateful to Mr Tong. Many residents of the sprawling nation — one of the poorest in the world — refuse to accept that Kiribati is gone. "When we talk about ...

He said Australia’s worries include reports that Beijing has trained and equipped Kiribati police officers, and the suspension of foreign judges serving in the island nation. “Interestingly ...

SYDNEY, Sept 7 (Reuters) - The Pacific island nation of Kiribati is moving towards authoritarianism, its former president said in an interview on Wednesday, after the government suspended all ...

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But in the Pacific, one of the world’s most remote regions, many people remain completely cut off. Over 90 percent of Samoans have a mobile phone but this falls to just 14 percent in Kiribati.

Based on its main landmass alone, Kiribati is the only country that stretches across all four hemispheres. However, when considering their territories, the U.S., France and the U.K. also can make ...