The Federated States of Micronesia, which had denounced Japan’s plan to launch water from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the ocean, is now not involved following briefings from the Japanese authorities, its president mentioned. Plans to discharge Fukushima water over 4 many years into the Pacific Ocean have …

The home in an exclusive Bangkok residential compound popular with diplomats was rented ostensibly by the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru for its consul-general to Thailand, his family and staff. But Onassis Dame, the Nauruan diplomat, and his family did not live there. Instead the residence, which investigators raided …