Tag: Solomon Islands

Rare Giant Rat Is Photographed Alive for First Time

For years, the Indigenous people on Vangunu, one of the Solomon Islands, had insisted a critically endangered giant rat that could chew through coconuts still lived among the trees of the forest, though its numbers had dwindled as loggers destroyed its habitat. None had been documented alive before. But it turned out the people of […]

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Biden Hosts Pacific Islands, With a Rising China in Mind

President Biden hosted the leaders of 18 Pacific Island nations at the White House on Monday, the second gathering of its kind in a year and the latest illustration of a regional competition for influence between the United States and China. Speaking to the leaders at the White House on Monday, Mr. Biden invoked America’s […]

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