Solomon Islands incumbent PM Manasseh Sogavare said he would not be a candidate when lawmakers vote next week for a new prime minister, and his political party would instead back ex-Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele.
A funeral was held on Friday for Faraz Tahir, who was killed in Sydney while trying to stop a mass stabbing attack.
Musk has accused Australia of censorship, while Australian lawmakers have accused Musk of arrogance and a lack of social responsibility.
Musk accused Australia’s leaders of trying to censor the internet after a court ordered his platform to stop showing footage of a bishop being stabbed.
Manasseh Sogavare’s Our Party has won 12 seats with six contests still in play, well short of a majority in the 50-seat parliament.
The US president last week raised the possibility that his uncle, whose plane was shot down over New Guinea in May 1944, might have been eaten by cannibals.
The killings have stunned many Australians, who are largely unaccustomed to such violent crime: ‘I feel like this has burst Australia’s bubble a bit’.
Two stabbing incidents involving a man and a teenager have put Australia’s social tensions under the spotlight.
The man was returning to his seat from the toilet when the Boeing 787 Dreamliner experienced turbulence.
Malaita premier Martin Fini, who recently signed a memorandum of understanding with China’s Jiangsu province, lost his re-election bid.
French construction worker Damien Guerot’s work visa was due to expire in July until PM Anthony Albanese intervened with an invitation to settle in Australia.
Emmanuel, who was slashed in the head and chest during the attack at the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church, said he was recovering quickly.
The 80-page document unveiled on Wednesday explicitly calls out ‘China’s coercive tactics in pursuit of its strategic objectives’. Australia’s optimistic assumptions for the post-Cold War era ‘are long gone’, the defence minister said.
Geopolitics looms large over the polls in Solomon Islands, where Beijing and Washington have been vying for influence for years. But for voters just struggling to make ends meet, Wednesday’s election may be decided by issues much closer to home.
Australian police said Monday’s attack at an Assyrian Christian church in Sydney was motivated by suspected religious extremism.
Social media footage show the man approaching a cleric at the altar identified as the bishop and appearing to stab him repeatedly in the head and upper body.
Bruce Lehrmann, a staff member in a previous government, brought a defamation suit against Australian media company Network Ten after it aired an interview with his accuser in 2021.
The last of Joel Cauchi’s six victims was identified on Monday as Yixuan Cheng, a young Chinese woman who was a student. Police say the killer appeared to target women.
A torrent of Chinese aid and investment has flowed into the Pacific nation during Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare’s five years at the helm. He seeks re-election this week.
The government’s ongoing public-sector job cuts have resulted in the worst-ever employment market, recruiters say.
The archipelago, one of the world’s least-developed countries, is the unlikely focal point of a diplomatic scramble pitting a rising China against Western rivals.