About 80 years after the end of one of the bloodiest battles in World War II, unexploded wartime ordnance that remain on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands threaten to add to the casualties. But ...
Australia is sending peace keeping troops to the Solomon Islands, as riots rocked the capital city of Honiara for a second day. PM Scott Morrison said police and army personnel would provide ...
Malaya and the Solomon Islands fall. Rabaul, on the New Britain island north of New Guinea, becomes an important Japanese base. February: In the first U.S. carrier offensive of the war ...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia announced on Friday it will pay for more police in Solomon Islands and create a ... in the Pacific since World War II. Advertisement Australia has recently ...
In the Solomon Islands, the night before an election is known as Devil's Night. Political candidates offer bribes, handing out everything from cash to sacks of rice and Chinese-made solar panels ...