April 17 (Reuters) - The Solomon Islands holds a national election on Wednesday, the first since Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare signed a security pact with China that prompted concern from the ...

April 17 was election day in the Solomon Islands, a country of around 750,000 people northeast of Australia that is best known to most Americans as the site of the World War II battles of Guadalcanal, ...

Counting for the national election in the Solomon Islands began on Thursday. The election follows a security pact with China in 2022 by Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, potentially shifting the ...

MELBOURNE — Solomon Islands lawmakers elected Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele as prime minister Thursday in a development that suggests the South Pacific island nation will maintain close ties with ...

Read full article: LIST: 2024 Halloween, fall events happening in Central, Southwest Virginia - Clone Photo of the YMCA in progress. MELBOURNE – Solomon Islands lawmakers elected former Foreign ...

Although a small Pacific Islands state with an estimated population of 740,000 people, Solomon Islands has been at the center of a geopolitical power play since 2019 when then prime minister Sogavare ...

Chinese officials are racing to strike a maritime economic agreement with the Solomon Islands following the signing of a security pact that Western officials suspect will give the communist regime’s ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Solomon Islands lawmakers elected former Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele as prime minister Thursday in a development that suggests the South Pacific island nation will ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Solomon Islands lawmakers elected former Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele as prime minister Thursday in a development that suggests the South Pacific island nation will maintain ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Solomon Islands ...