SYDNEY -- For four years, Solomon Islander Maeverlyn Pitanoe has woken up every day in pain. On Mother's Day in 2021, an unexploded World War II artillery shell suddenly went off beneath a barbecue ...
Police in Solomon Islands say a large explosion that rocked the nation's capital overnight was caused by an old World War II ...
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An expedition led by Ocean Exploration Trust (OET) aboard Exploration Vessel (E/V) Nautilus has just completed comprehensive archaeological surveys of more than a dozen vessels lost during the World ...
HONIARA, Solomon Islands, Aug. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Exactly 80 years after the end of World War II in the Pacific, Solomon Islands, site of the Battle of Guadalcanal, is still grappling with a ...
Four years after surviving a World War II bomb explosion at Lengakiki, Central Honiara, one of the victims is still waiting for government assistance or compensation. Maeverlyn Kabolo Pitanoe, one of ...
We head to where a massive explosion has rocked the Solomon Islands capital of Honiara. The World War Two bomb exploded in ...