US sanctions Marshall Islands elected leaders for corruption

The United States issued a travel ban against two members of the Marshall Islands parliament for corruption it says involved bribe-taking, the first-time elected leaders in this US-aligned western Pacific nation have been publicly sanctioned by the US government.

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