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  Posted by Billbar from New Zealand Herald
  As it enters its 30th year of independence this month, the Solomon Islands finds itself on the brink of a twin disaster. In those three decades, its economy has overwhelmingly depended on just one rapidly disappearing natural resource - timber - which successive governments have failed to manage well, jeopardising the country's environmental health and economic wealth.
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- Tsunami Hits Solomons; 8 Reported Dead
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  Police and residents said a wave about 10 feet high struck the western town of Gizo, inundating buildings and causing widespread destruction. A man who answered the telephone at the Gizo police station said there were initial reports that eight people, six of them children, had been killed by the tsunami but they were still unconfirmed. The phone cut out abruptly before the man gave his name.
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- Embattled Solomons PM steps down
  Posted by Billbar from BBC News
  The new Solomon Islands Prime Minister Snyder Rini, whose election last week triggered widespread rioting in the capital Honiara, has resigned just before MPs were due to vote in a no-confidence motion against him.
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- Islands simmer as PM sworn in
  Posted by Billbar from Smh.com
  There are fears that the secretive swearing-in of the Solomon Islands' new Prime Minister, Snyder Rini, will further inflame political tensions and spark more violence. More than a hundred people, many Australian, have been flown to Townsville, with stories of narrow escapes from armed mobs.
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- More troops to Solomons as violence widens
  Posted by Billbar from Yahoo News!
  Australia and New Zealand have deployed more troops and police to the riot-torn Solomon Islands as thousands of protesters threatened to destroy the capital unless the new prime minister steps down.
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Solomon islands

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Tsunami Hits Solomons; 8 Reported Dead

Embattled Solomons PM steps down

Islands simmer as PM sworn in

More troops to Solomons as violence widens

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