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Pacific nation Solomon Islands begins voting in a national election that could reshape regional security, with citizens in effect choosing if their nation will deepen ties with China. IMAGES
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi and his delegation leave their hotel in the Solomon Islands ahead of meetings with the Honiara government. It comes as China puts forward a wide-ranging draft agreement and a five-year plan to ten nations in the Pacific, as part of Wang's tour of Pacific nations, which began Thursday. The South Pacific is increasingly a theatre for competition between China and the United States -- which has been the primary power in the region for the last century. IMAGES
Twenty-seven people were feared dead after a blaze swept through a commercial building housing a mental health clinic in the Japanese city of Osaka on Friday. IMAGES
The surrounding area of the Israeli Consulate in Munich has been cordoned off as investigations continue after a gunman was shot dead by police. The gunman, an 18-year-old Austrian man, had opened fire with a vintage rifle near the institution in what authorities treated as a foiled attack on the diplomatic mission. IMAGES
A first delivery of mpox vaccines is expected to arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the coming days, the World Health Organization's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says during a UN press briefing in Geneva. The WHO declared an international emergency over mpox on August 14, concerned by the surge in cases of a new strain, the Clade 1b, in the DR Congo and its spread to nearby countries. SOUNDBITE
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