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New Solomons PM defies call to resign

PROTECTION Australia doubled its troop deployment in the wake of violent protests amid claims that the Solomon Islands' prime minister rose to power through corruption

AP , HONIARA

Police also arrested 14 looters in the provincial capital of Auke on the island of Malaita on Thursday -- the first sign that the unrest had spread beyond the Solomons' main island, Guadalcanal.

Some 400 Chinese left homeless by the mob violence were yesterday huddling for shelter at a police club in Honiara where local Red Cross workers gave them food.

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